"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.
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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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"There is a widely circulated video showing Homer Simpson behind Donald Trump on an escalator, which many people mistakenly believe was a Murdoch-era prediction of Trump’s presidency ..
"Justin Waller said he moved his family from Louisiana to South Florida so he could work on his influencing career, but also to grow closer to Trump’s “inner circle.”..🎶
Nov, 2025 , OCCRP
"Sun, Cigars, and Sexism: How Spain's Marbella Became a Hotspot for 'Manosphere' Influencers " occrp.org/en/feature/sun…
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" Tristan and his brother Andrew Tate remain influential figures at the center of the so-called manosphere ..
The British-American Tate bros also face criminal charges for human trafficking and rape in the U.K. and are being criminally investigated in Romania for trafficking🎶
"Billionaires bolt from Bill Gates’ scandal-scarred Giving Pledge as critics brand it ‘Epstein-adjacent’ ..The Post has sought comment from Gates, French Gates, Thiel, Ellison, Armstrong and Buffett."
What about Jack Dangermond who is in the Epstein files?
" Dangermond’s name appears on an email chain regarding the agenda for a conference called "www," which was hosted at Esri’s headquarters in Redlands, California."
Jeffrey Epstein sponsored this event and attended it in person. He was invited by the event's creator, Richard Saul Wurman (the founder of TED), who was a close associate of Epstein and a long-time professional acquaintance of Dangermond ."..
"Kemi Badenoch has branded an article in the Guardian 'disgusting' - after it claimed the opening of a Gail's bakery near a Palestinian cafe is 'heavy-handed aggression'."
Ms Badenoch has now waded in on the debate, telling the Jewish News it is 'extraordinary that Gail’s bakeries are being attacked now, supposedly because they are Israeli-owned'."..
The Guardian article features an interview with the Palestinian owners of Cafe Metro, Faten and Mahmoud, in Archway, north London - where a new branch of Gail's was recently established." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…