James Randi in Memoriam, 1928–2020 “There is a hunger, a very strong hunger, within us all to believe there is something more than what the laws of nature permit. I’m not just saying audiences that watch the magician. I mean within us all.” Randi’s life mission was the message on the value of #science, #reason, and #skepticism. Here represented by a TEDTalk: Homeopathy, quackery and fraud https://youtu.be/c0Z7KeNCi7g

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