Costanza comments on A Muggle Studies course - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Costanza 03 October 2013 12:09:53AM 1 point [-]

I think I'm seconding this when I say that one of the most rational of Muggle studies has been magic, in the sense of stage illusionism. There's a long history of stage magicians -- beginning at least with Houdini -- debunking self-declared spiritualists and psychics and so on. James Randi, Penn and Teller, and even Johnny Carson spring to mind.