An hilarious look at speaker cables by one of the world's greatest skeptics.

[baronfizzy]

http://www.randi.org/jr/012805opinions.html#3

[Mevunky]

Nice read, seems like a good test.

Looking at that it really does make me wonder about power cords.

[Ayou2]

guys like that have too much time on their hands.

some day he'll probably arrive home to find a note from the missus

"dear John, you spend to much time on the internet, i've left you for the Mexican plumber. Keep setting the world to rights .... power cords are frivilous & evil, one day they will understand

love Mary & Pedro"



:eek:

[Michael Wong]

Guys like Randi are just as fanatical as the cranks they seek to expose.

Do a Google on the ridiculous challenges he's made to the audio press.

Read his stuff with a tonne of salt.

:p

[Ayou2]

http://www.randi.org/jref/join.html

ROTFLMAO

no thanks, i'd rather buy some nordost valhalla power cords.

[baronfizzy]

It's pretty entertaining stuff though, and it is interesting that nobody's managed to get their hands on that US$1,000,000 yet ...

"Dear John"? His name's James!

You're not a closet Kevin Troudeau devotee are you?

[Ayou2]

dear john as in he gets a dear john letter

"You're not a closet Kevin Troudeau devotee are you"

nope

apparently James has backed away from a serious challenge

http://www.alternativescience.com/randi-retreats.htm

[baronfizzy]

http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?postid=468540

Of course that article came from www.alternativescience.com!

That person claims to have lived without food for 17 years. To prove that this is possible, he'd have to be locked in a room with only water and light and no food until the year 2022, not two weeks (even if two weeks was possible).

It wouldn't even be worth it, as a lot of people in the US earn US$58,000 per year ...

[Michael Wong]

Originally posted by baronfizzy
It's pretty entertaining stuff though, and it is interesting that nobody's managed to get their hands on that US$1,000,000 yet ...

If you read more closely you'll find Randi has stacked the challenge heavily in his favour.



;)

[baronfizzy]

We all would! That's what makes it even funnier!

[GreatHall]

I think that's a really interesting article. People like James Randi are certainly a bit obsessive, but as a bit of a skeptical scientific sort myself I don't have a problem with that, as the idea is that it leads you closer to truth (but I'm glad someone else is doing the tedious hard work to get there).
It does strike me as a bit disingenuous when intelligent hifi sorts frame DBT in terms of "mere science" vs "actual perception". A double blind test IS all about perception, i.e. averaging out the inherently somewhat random weirdness of it.

[Mattacious]

Yikes, that power cord is more expensive than my AMP. Interesting test though, good on him for debunking it.