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Joseph Francis Rinn (1868–1952) was an American magician and skeptic of paranormal phenomena.
20 de abr. de 2022 · Joseph Rinn (1868-1962), a member of the Society of American Magicians, collaborated with Harry Houdini on psychic matters in the early 1920s. Biography. Rinn grew up in New York as a childhood friend of Houdini when they were both members of the Pastime Athletic Club.
In this week’s eSkeptic, Daniel Loxton shares a story about Joseph F. Rinn—a leading media skeptic from the early 20th century— whose classic volume Sixty Years of Psychical Research, though rarely consulted today, remains the deepest and most important sources of skeptical literature on paranormal investigation from about 1890–1950.
When did Harry Houdini first become a magician? The answer is not always clear. According to Houdini's boyhood friend Joseph F. Rinn, Ehrich Weiss was giving magic performances two years before he ever read The Memories of Robert-Houdin.
Skeptic Joseph Rinn, demonstrating mediumistic trickery for a press syndicate in 1920. (From Daniel Loxton’s collection.) Scientific skepticism has a long history—roughly 40 years in its most modern organized form, and centuries (arguably millennia) as a more or less recognizable tradition.
7 de nov. de 2023 · Joseph Rinn lo entrenó. Después de leer la biografía de Jean-Eugene Rober-Houdin, el amor y el deseo de Harry Houdini por la magia despertaron; estaba más que dispuesto a aprender más. Afortunadamente para él, Joseph Rinn, un mago estadounidense establecido, estuvo allí para entrenarlo durante su adolescencia.
5 de dic. de 2021 · Joseph Rinn? James Oberg? Arthur C. Clarke? Dear Quote Investigator: Tabloid newspapers have printed remarkable claims about alien abductions, mischievous ghosts, bigfoot sightings, and other anomalies. Skeptics have countered these reports by stating that the evidence is inadequate. Here are two versions of a pertinent adage:
