Derren Brown, magician skeptic
Pseudoscience, Psychic, Skepticism | (0)
It should come as no surprise that many great magicians are also skeptics. Harry Houdini was a skeptic. James Randi is a skeptic. Penn and Teller are skeptics. And a more recent and popular example is Criss Angel Mindfreak. Magicians tend to be skeptical because they know how easily it is to fool people. (Similarly, psychologists tend to be skeptical because they know how easily people can fool themselves.) To them, a psychic is simply a dishonest magician.
Derren Brown is an English magician and mentalist, and he is part of the great tradition of skeptical magicians. Watch: he's really good.
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