No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.

A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.

To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.

The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.