E-mail from Michael Roll to Sam Nicholls (December 10, 2002): James Randi
In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"[Randi] and his supporters are always given total freedom on all media and educational outlets in the UK to attack arguably two of the greatest scientists that Great Britain has ever produced: The President of the Royal Society and holder of the Order of Merit, Sir William Crookes, and the inventor of radio, Sir Oliver Lodge FRS. No scientist, however well qualified, is allowed on media and educational outlets to balance these attacks."Read More...
E-mail from Sam Nicholls to Michael Roll (September 4, 2002): James Randi
Sam Nicholls comments on criticisms of his article James Randi - His Amazing Role in the Great Psi Media Circus (1991) .
In his e-mail, Sam Nicholls writes:
In his e-mail, Sam Nicholls writes:
"(...) comments about "slurs and misrepresentations" and using "slanted language" and "innuendo" are quite apt - that's exactly how I feel about the quality of Mr Randi's writing."Read More...
E-mail from Michael Roll to Professor Peter Wadhams (December 20, 2001): James "The Amazing" Randi
In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"Randi is a fraud, he is taking money under false pretences, setting himself up as an expert on a subject, when in fact he is only a professional wrecker."Read More...
E-mail from Michael Roll to Uri Geller (September 5, 2002): James "The Amazing" Randi
2002-September-05 Filed in: Media
In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"It must be number one priority to balance the monopoly that James Randi now enjoys on all scientific outlets."Read More...
E-mail from Michael Roll to Hugh Thomas (February 28, 2004): Balancing the Arguments of So-Called Experts
In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Why can't we see our qualified British physicists balancing the arguments of the American magician James Randi and the professional obscurants who are on his side?"Read More...
E-mail from Michael Roll to Sam Nicholls (February 27, 2004): James "The Amazing" Randi
In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"No qualified scientists are allowed on British television to put the secular scientific case for survival after death. There are far too many powerful "experts" with too much to lose when people eventually have access to the scientific case for a separate mind and brain."Read More...
E-mail from Michael Roll to Steve Grenard (July 4, 2002): JREF Bonds and Bond Fraud and Scamming
2002-July-04 Filed in: Media
In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"(...) nobody who controls mainstream media and educational outlets in the UK is prepared to let scientists who have started from the base of a separate mind and brain to even balance the case put forward by Randi, Blackmore and co. Where on Earth is the justice in this one-sided domination of the press, radio, television and educational outlets?"Read More...
Letter from Sam Nicholls to David Plowright (March 7, 1991): "OPEN MEDIA" SERIES ON THE PARANORMAL
1991-March-07 Filed in: Media
This letter concerns the Open Media series, produced by Granada Television in the UK.
In the letter, Sam Nicholls writes:
In the letter, Sam Nicholls writes:
"It is important to realise that magicians like Randi have a lifetimes experience in deceiving people for the sake of "entertainment" - they are experts at pulling the wool over the eyes of their audiences. Unfortunately, experience has shown that these individuals tend to forget that such deception is inappropriate to more scientific endeavours."Read More...