The Truth About Uri Geller

James Randi was a professional magician who spent much of his later career investigating claimed paranormal performers, and this Prometheus Books work is his documentation of the ordinary conjuring methods behind Uri Geller's metal-bending demonstrations. Its strength is Randi's own expertise as a magician, which let him identify specific sleight-of-hand and misdirection techniques that a non-magician observer, including trained scientists in earlier tests of Geller, had missed. Its limit is that Randi wrote as an outspoken and admittedly hostile critic pursuing a public campaign against Geller specifically, so while its technical claims about method are widely credited, its more personal characterizations of Geller should be read as one side of an openly adversarial dispute.