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Whoa Penn is a skeptic? - 2006/07/26 03:29
I remember years and years ago I was familiar with Penn as a kind of flashy magician guy. He seemed, at that time, so "Hollywood". This was around the time all of Hollywood was all taken with Shirley McClain and Ramtha 'n' crap. Nancy Reagan was getting her astrologer to name space shuttles 'n' crap.
Anyway, I remember being totally blown away that this cool "hollywood" guy was also a skeptic. I mean geez weren't skeptics people like me? Kind of unlayable geeks? Penn (and Teller) being skeptics, and damn cool people, just kind of made skepticism take on a whole new level.
In retrospect, I can see how so many magicians are skeptics. They have to see so many people like Uri Geller passing off simple slight of hand and other stage magic tricks as genuine psychic ability that it has to piss them off to no end.
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