Comments on: James Randi is dead https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/10/24/james-randi-is-dead/ Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:24:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/10/24/james-randi-is-dead/#comment-906070 Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:24:45 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33341#comment-906070 In reply to PDM.

I think he originally went into climate change denial because he listened to some of his libertarian friends who were also famous “skeptics” but who were willing to put logic and reasoning aside to advance their political agenda, as though one could, er, magically do such a thing.

]]> By: PDM https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/10/24/james-randi-is-dead/#comment-906020 Tue, 17 Nov 2020 02:13:13 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33341#comment-906020 Sorry, but I find it difficult to forgive his AGW denial. Instead of applying skepticism to climate denial, he applied it to climate science. In so doing, he embraced the kind of logical fallacies he supposedly opposed, and lent an illusion of credibility to AGW denial. Then, when he was criticized, he offered a lame nonapology instead of a mea culpa, claiming he was being misconstrued. Ironically, he also seemed to inadvertently reveal that he did not even understand what the greenhouse effect was. Debunking psychics is all well and good, but climate change is a significantly greater threat than Uri Geller.

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