Magic?

I don't normally believe in magic or the supernatural, but this guy might just have us all fooled.

The Amazing Randi calls himself an "investigator and demystifier of paranormal and pseudo-scientific claims," and although he is a magician - in the sense that Penn and Teller are - he has made a name for himself by debunking the claims of people like the famous psychic spoon bender Uri Geller, who maintain they have a God-given (or in Geller's case, alien-given) ability to break the laws of physics, rather than aptitude for well-choreographed illusions. Randi performs many of the same tricks such "paranormalists" do, and he doesn't reveal their secrets, but he has notarized statements from other magicians confirming that they have seen his methods and found them to be naturalistic and mechanistic.

Which means the Amazing Randi is able to make his living off these "supernatural" tricks without claiming they are supernatural, but without giving anyone the satisfaction of seeing how they are accomplished. "So Randi gave this performance," said Dennett, "and then there's a question period. And one fellow absolutely stopped Randi in his tracks by arguing as follows: 'You claim to be able to explain Uri Geller's tricks, but you don't actually give us the explanation, and moreover, I think you're a real psychic just like he is. You have magical powers. You just don't want to admit it. And you see, the reason is there's only room in this world for one Uri Geller, and you're riding his coattails by claiming not to be a psychic. It's the only way you can earn a living in this racket.'" The amazing Randi, said Dennett, "found it very hard to prove you're not a psychic.

Source: Moffett, Shannon. The Three Pound Enigma. Algonquin Books, 2006.