Another mystifying UpIsDown article in the NY Times, painting yet another con man as something of a hero, and painting the people who revealed the con as petty jerks. Nutso: "Uri Geller claimed to bend metal with his mind on live television. Skeptics couldn’t beat him. Now they’ve joined him." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/business/uri-geller-magic-deep-fakes.html
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@MarcAbrahams Agree that it was weird - equivalent of condemning Houdini for exposing seances in the Victorian era. OTOH, the author (David Segal) got us a refund on a defective microwave back when he was "The Haggler" on the Times. So I'll give him the same room he gave Geller.
