E-mail from Michael Roll to Professor Richard Dawkins (November 3, 2013): Lord Melvyn Bragg and Thomas Paine

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Ditch Randi and move over to our fellow atheist Arthur Findlay, then working together we can blow the great religious hoax on the human race clean out of the water."
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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."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Victor Zammit (August 25, 2002): Professional Wreckers

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"[Dr John] Beloff is the perfect ally for James Randi and all the rest of the professional wreckers who are fighting with all their might to block the secular scientific case for survival from reaching the public."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Charles Lowson (September 9, 2002): Near-Death Experiences

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"(...) Arthur Findlay insisted on getting rid of the emotive word "spirit" and making sure we always use the scientific word "etheric". I am bringing all the free thinkers with us solely because I have got rid of all the words associated with the evil forces of priestcraft."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Professor Brian Josephson (December 1, 2002): Scientific Proof and the Media

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"Whenever a scientist makes a public stand and links so-called paranormal phenomena with quantum mechanics, that is, hints that there may be a rational scientific explanation to account for any aspect of the "paranormal", it's as if a button is pushed on media computers and a list of names pop up of "experts" who will immediately be wheeled on to rubbish any scientist who dares to support Sir William Crookes and Sir Oliver Lodge, the pioneers of radio, television and subatomic physics."
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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:
"(...) 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."
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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."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Uri Geller (September 5, 2002): James "The Amazing" Randi

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."
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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?"
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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."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Steve Grenard (July 4, 2002): JREF Bonds and Bond Fraud and Scamming

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?"
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Susan Woodward of Talksport (March 22, 2002): Academic accuses me of inventing Prof. Peter Wadhams!

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"we have stirred up a hornet's nest of hate from academics who are going to be made to look stupid as the truth hits more and more people.

(...) One academic got in such a state he accused me of inventing Prof. Peter Wadhams and that he has checked with Cambridge University and that there is no Prof. Wadhams there!"
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Letter from Michael Roll to Dr Sam Parnia (December 6, 2003): Scientific Proof

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"This keeps the old-boy network ticking over nicely and makes sure the priests, mullahs and rabbis keep their monopoly on the vast and lucrative life after death industry. So-called orthodox scientists who are adamant that death is the end of everything, that the mind and brain are the same, will be made to look just as silly as the priests when this scientific back up for your research into Near Death Experiences eventually enters the public domain."
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Letter to the Producer of the Richard and Judy Show (June 28, 2002): Scientific Proof

In his letter In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"Scientists all over the world who have been fighting against linking survival after death with the scientific discipline of subatomic physics have now jumped on our winning bandwagon, including the Vatican's scientists led by the Jesuit priests!"
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E-mail from Michael Roll to David Duffield (January 6, 2003): Philosophical Balance

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"I am appealing to the British sense of fair play. Every time you hear James Randi and his devoted followers, who still have total control of all media and educational outlets, attack our great scientist Sir William Crookes. Please say, all right, we have heard your case that Crookes was a liar, a fraud, a crank, a gullible Spiritualist, and a sex maniac. May we now please hear from qualified scientists who disagree with everything you say about this former President of the Royal Society?"
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Letter from Michael Roll to Laurence Rees (June 24, 2000): Houdini

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"All priests are terrified of mediums solely because whenever we make contact with people in the invisible part of the universe, the message is always the same,

"There is no place here reserved for Christians or anybody else, we all survive death.””
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Letter from Michael Roll to Laurence Rees (June 5, 2000): Houdini

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"Mrs. Houdini most certainly did make contact with her husband through the American medium Arthur Ford on 9th January 1929.”
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Letter from Journalist Garry Bushell to Michael Roll (August 22, 1991): JAMES RANDI: PSYCHIC INVESTIGATOR

This letter was written after James Randi's PSYCHIC INVESTIGATOR series was broadcast on television in the UK.

In his letter, Garry Bushell writes:
”I don't pretend to know anything about sub-atomic physics, but I am intrigued by your arguments & believe you should be allowed to state your case publicly, even if it is then knocked down.”


On August 8, Garry Bushell had published an article in The Sun.

In this article, he writes:
"None of it was remotely as interesting as the subjects Randi hasn't tackled yet - like crystal ball merchants or tarot card readers. Or more tellingly those scientists who claim there is a rational case for belief in life after death. Why have their arguments been kept off TV? I hear that comments from astro-physicist Sam Nicholls were cut from the show on mediums. Why?”
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Letter from Sam Nicholls to David Plowright (March 7, 1991): "OPEN MEDIA" SERIES ON THE PARANORMAL

This letter concerns the Open Media series, produced by Granada Television in the UK.
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."
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