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James Randi Psychic Surgery

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For anyone, no background needed. Education, not medical advice.

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James Randi demonstrates how psychic surgery is performed as a magic trick to expose the fraudulent medical practice.

James Randi demonstrating Psychic Surgery on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in the 1980s. Published with Permission.

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What people say. Recommended as a classic demonstration exposing psychic surgery as a fraudulent theatrical trick.

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On “Is seemingly bare-hands surgery (with no instruments) fake?”

Your video is an example of what is known as psychic surgery. The practioners claim to be able to treat and heal many diseases. Psychic surgery is a fake. It does not heal anything. Its practitioners are frauds, taking money from desperate people with incurable diseases. The bits and pieces apparently removed from the patient's body are all animal parts. It is nothing but stage magic. There are no special effects or high tech trickery going on. Nothing but misdirection and sleight of hand. The practioners pretend to be digging into the patient's body while in fact pulling out pieces of animal flesh or organs that they have hidden in their hands. The United States Federal Trade Comm…
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