"In February 1988, Randi tested the gullibility of the media by perpetrating a hoax of his own. By teaming up with Australia's 60 Minutes program and by releasing a fake press package, he built up publicity for a "spirit channeler" named Carlos"
In this video James Randi explains how they developed the Carlos hoax , which I will only be too happy to deconstruct later
"James Randi Speaks: The Carlos Hoax" https://t.co/Qs3osBKs4u
This is the letter that James Randi wrote to Judge Hurley , appealing for clemency, in the identity theft case :
Well, all the top notch art museums like MoMA and the Whitney Museum were happy to display and promote the work of the Venezuelan artist Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.)
David Gorski was a blogger for the Seed Media Group (SMG) from 2005 to 2016
SMG Founder : Adam Bly - In 2007, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum
He sits on the American Committee of the Weizmann Institute of Science https://t.co/2gcpe7TOHFapollo.io/people/David/G…
Adam Bly, of Seed Media Group, gives the keynote address at Envisioning Organization: Architecture + Information conference
- Organized by Ohio State's Knowlton School of Architecture, and cosponsored by the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Fisher College of Business
Look who else was there..
David Kuhn and guest . Lol. Didn't they recognize Ghislaine Maxwell?
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DLD Founder Marcel Reichart, Davide Serra and Adam Bly attend the Burda DLD Nightcap 2011 at the Steigenberger Belvedere hotel on January 25, 2012 in Davos, Switzerland.
(Photo by Nadine Rupp/Getty Images)
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DLD founder Steffi Czerny and Clemens Boersig, chairman of Deutsche Bank AG . DLD is a global conference network on innovation, digital, science and culture which connects business, creative and social leaders, opinion-form science and culture which connects business.."
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I only came across Adam Bly and his Seed Media in this article:
"“Science”Blogs, As Told By A Defecting “Science”Blogger"
“ Apparently, to Adam Bly, culture is business, especially since the views expressed by the 69 bloggers who post on SMG’s ‘Science’Blogs are in the best interest of sponsors.” https://t.co/NP44NxnlQjageofautism.com/2010/08/the-ne…
NYT : " Science writers play rough. They like hoaxes, humiliations and Oxbridge-style showdowns that let them use words like “claptrap” and “gibberish.”.." https://t.co/sA0uyk6jZqweb.archive.org/web/2012051610…
"Seed Media Group, which oversees ScienceBlogs, eventually killed off the commercial blog, but the staff bloggers kept leaving. Some have predicted that the ScienceBlogs network won’t survive the defections. “The ship is sinking,” mused PZ Myers, [of] Pharyngula
"does everyone take for granted now that science sites are where graduate students, researchers, doctors and the “skeptical community” go not to interpret data or review experiments but to chip off one-liners, promote their books and jeer at smokers, fat people &churchgoers?"
"I was tangentially involved with another character who was the recipient of Epstein’s beneficence. John Brockman was my agent, too. I published in a few of his annual question books, he got me a good advance on The Happy Atheist..."
- PZ Myers
"as it turns out, thanks to PZ’s old enemy getting a little too chatty with a reporter, we learn some more news:
In his complaint, Pivar made a point of mentioning by name two prominent members of SMG’s board: Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell"
"When Myers moved his blog to ScienceBlogs, his traffic began to skyrocket. In essence, he became the “rock star” of ScienceBlogs, receiving the vast majority of the traffic, getting mentions from the science journal Nature and accolades from all sorts of popular atheists."
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"Bloomberg reported on October 6, 2025, that Citadel is considering launching or investing in a prediction & betting platform. This aligns with broader Wall Street interest in the space, where markets have seen explosive growth post-2024 US elections." tekedia.com/citadel-explor…
This move comes amid a prediction markets boom:Investor Inflows: Billionaires like Charles Schwab and Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao invested in Kalshi a CFTC-regulated platform in June 2025, valuing it at $2 billion. Henry Kravis KKR co-founder is also backing the sector."..🤔
The Technological Republic : Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West is a 2025 book co-authored by Alexander C. Karp, the co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, and Nicholas W. Zamiska, Palantir's head of corporate affairs and legal counsel to the CEO.
Grok : " Palantir is a core partner in the precursor to Genesis—the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR)—which Genesis explicitly builds upon. This involves Palantir's Foundry and AIP platforms for secure data integration across federal datasets..
Grok : " Candace Owens deliberately chose the name Blexit in 2018 to mirror Brexit – both are framed as liberation movements from a political establishments."
Grok :
Attendees at the Turning Point UK Launch Event (December 11, 2018) :
* Andy Wigmore (communications director of Leave.EU)
* Paul Joseph Watson (InfoWars )
* James Delingpole (Breitbart London editor and Spectator writer) x.com/artisbrutal202…
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Mappin : "Princess Gloria Von Thurn und Taxis heard about the London event, in Germany and immediately invited Kirk and Owens to her Palace at Regensburg ..
Mappin : " His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, James Marlbourough invited them both to visit him at Blenheim Palace and later participated in TPUK fundraising events in London...🤔