{"id":7128,"date":"2020-10-26T18:50:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T22:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=7128"},"modified":"2020-10-26T18:50:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T22:50:14","slug":"the-man-who-destroyed-skepticism-boing-boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=7128","title":{"rendered":"The man who destroyed skepticism | Boing Boing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Scourge of psychics James Randi was no skeptic; our culture is poorer as a result Several years ago I was preparing a talk on the life of occult journeyer Madame H.P. Blavatsky (1831\u20131891) for the \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2020\/10\/26\/the-man-who-destroyed-skepticism.html\">The man who destroyed skepticism | Boing Boing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A less positive opinion on James Randi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scourge of psychics James Randi was no skeptic; our culture is poorer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,83],"class_list":["post-7128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-info","tag-skeptical","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}