The end of the magic world's 50-year grudge
NYT: He claimed to bend metal with his mind. Sceptics doubted him. Now they've joined him.
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NYT: He claimed to bend metal with his mind. Sceptics doubted him. Now they've joined him.
In 1973, a young man named Uri Geller appeared on one of the BBCs most popular television shows, The Dimbleby Talk-In, and announced
Uri Geller became not just a global celebrity — a media darling who toured the world and filled auditoriums for dramatic demonstrations of cutlery abuse, with the humble spoon becoming his victim of choice — but also the living embodiment of the hope that there was something more, something science couldn’t explain.
In 1973, Uri Geller claimed to bend metal with his mind on live television. Skeptics couldn’t beat him. Now they’ve joined him.
Bent spoons are Uri Geller's hallmark. He did it in 1973, and he's been a mystifying force ever since.