- Gérard Majax
Gérard Faier, known as Gérard Majax (
April 28 ,1943 ) is a Frenchillusionist andskeptic .He has appeared in television programs, magic demonstrations, and movies.
From 1987 until 2002 he, along with
Jacques Théodor andHenri Broch of theUniversity of Nice Sophia-Antipolis , oversaw theInternational Zetetic Challenge .During the 1990s, on a late night television show by
Thierry Ardisson Majax gave a demo of the "rotating table" "supernatural phenomenon": a group of "randomly" selected people from the audience stood around a round table, put their hands on it, and the table went up and started rotating. Observation of a video recording made of this event showed that some participants had metal hacks hidden in the sleeves of their jackets. When the participants put the hands on the table, the hacks "pinched" the table underneath, allowing it to be lifted.ee also
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James Randi is an American illusionist and skeptic who has also offered a prize for a demonstration ofparanormal phenomena.External links
* [http://www.majax.com/ Gérard Majax's official site]
* [http://www.unice.fr/zetetique/defi.html 200,000 Euro Challenge site]
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