{"id":20711,"date":"2010-06-11T08:09:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T08:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/randi-does-big-think-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-06-11T08:09:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T08:09:41","slug":"randi-does-big-think-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/randi-does-big-think-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Randi does Big Think | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Randi &mdash; conjourer, critical thinker, skeptic, and friend &mdash; did a series of great interviews on Big Think. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/20392\">Here&rsquo;s one<\/a> where he talks about spending his life attacking antiscience and its purveyors, specifically Uri Geller and Sylvia Browne.<\/p><p><\/p><p>The interviews are all short, just a few minutes long, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/jamesrandi\">you can access all of them on the Big Think site<\/a>. It&rsquo;s well worth your time to hear from this giant of skepticism.<\/p><p>Bonus: the James Randi Educational Foundation <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randi.org\/site\/index.php\/swift-blog\/1003-announcing-the-james-randi-grants-for-educators.html\">just announced<\/a> they have education grants available! If you&rsquo;re an educator developing or disseminating critical thinking materials, take a look. <\/p><p><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/QMUxNgE8F5LzkOIPEcLPIcd9dS0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/92d75_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/QMUxNgE8F5LzkOIPEcLPIcd9dS0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/92d75_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/92d75_gvtneJNXSRw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/92d75_qHsYldWTscw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Randi &mdash; conjourer, critical thinker, skeptic, and friend &mdash; did a series of great interviews on Big Think. Here&rsquo;s one where he talks about spending his life attacking antiscience and its purveyors, specifically Uri Geller and Sylvia Browne.The interviews &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/randi-does-big-think-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}