{"id":378,"date":"2008-01-25T10:54:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T14:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2017-11-30T18:42:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T22:42:57","slug":"the-geller-effect-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2008\/01\/25\/the-geller-effect-lives-on\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GELLER EFFECT LIVES ON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"small\"> Written by James Randi<\/span><br \/>\nHere is \u201c essentially\u201c a diatribe against the perceived fuddy-duddy convictions of shortsighted modern scientists. It was written by author Colin Bennett, who says that<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"quote\">&#8220;The problem here is that in the 20th century we have lost the relationship between imagination and fact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That rather sets the stage for what follows, since Bennett has freely interchanged imagination and fact, as you&#8217;ll see. He has also been beguiled by such wonders as the JFK Assassination Conspiracy, the Candy Jones\/Long John Nebel\/CIA* plot, Charles Fort, the Mothman Prophecies, &#8220;chemtrails,&#8221;\u009d and George Adamski. What follows is an exercise in naivety:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randi.org\/joom\/content\/view\/151\/27\/#i1\"> [[[[MORE]]]] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by James Randi Here is \u201c essentially\u201c a diatribe against the perceived fuddy-duddy convictions of shortsighted modern scientists. It was written by author Colin Bennett, who says that &#8220;The problem here is that in the 20th century we have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2008\/01\/25\/the-geller-effect-lives-on\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3288,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}