"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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NYT :
"Updates: Millions of Pages of Epstein Documents Released ..
The documents shed new light on the disgraced financier’s relationships with several prominent figures, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ."..
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" Sergey Brin , the co-founder of Google and one of the richest men in the world, visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in St. Thomas, made plans to dine at Mr. Epstein’s home and corresponded with Ghislaine Maxwell "..
"The investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's network reveals the significance of Tim Newcome, his Citrix programmer. This sophisticated setup may have facilitated a remote voyeuristic operation, allowing elite clients to access hidden camera feeds."
FOIA Request for FBI Records on Timothy W. Newcome
"If Timothy W. Newcome — the same man listed as Epstein’s Citrix programmer — was relocated and sanitized in 2013 as part of an FBI or intelligence placement, then the most logical conclusion is this: thestealingofemily.co.uk/2025/08/08/foi…
"Starlink (operated by SpaceX)& Palantir Technologies are two prominent tech companies with growing intersections in the defense and national security sectors, particularly through collaborative efforts, shared ecosystems, and overlapping military applications as of Jan. 2026."
Palantir & Anduril announced a strategic partnership in Dec. 2024 to accelerate AI capabilities for national security, including integrating Palantir's AI Platform with Anduril's Lattice autonomous software for edge-to-cloud data flow in military ops.
Grok : "OpenAI's Sora (now in its Sora 2 iteration as of late 2025) is indeed pushing us toward a future where the boundaries between imagination and reality are blurring in profound ways..
Harvard Kennedy School , Institute of Politics
Spring 1996 :
" Edwina Rogers is a partner in the Washington law firm of Raffaelli, Spees, Springer & Smith." iop.harvard.edu/fellows/edwina…
Mother Jones, 1997
" Terry McAuliffe gathered a dozen or so friends and family members at the Hay-Adams Hotel.. Pres. Bill Clinton had crossed the street from the White House and then lingered to eat, drink, & sing tunes from “Hello, Dolly!”.. Al Gore..motherjones.com/politics/1997/…
" Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker,directed by Tom DeLonge, Edgar Martins, and Sergio Martins. The film focuses on the title character Poet, who discovers his guardian angel and destiny inside the Dream World, an alt universe created by humankind's shared unconscious thoughts.