Why is the New York Times glorifying the career of lifelong charlatan Uri Geller?

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Why is the New York Times glorifying the career of lifelong charlatan Uri Geller?

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Skeptic@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

The puff piece downplays the lies Geller has told over the past several decades

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