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Added: Jul 23, 2007

From: MichaelShermer

Duration: 6:47

The art of the con is as old as civilization, employing the skills of deception, misdirection, and the psychology of human greed and the desire to get something for nothing. In this episode Shermer employs a professional con artist to teach him the fine art of conning people.

Channel: People

Tags: con  conartists  congames  shermer 


Rating: 4.85 (117 ratings)    Views: 40075' favoriteCount='170    Comments: 27

ripperarn Says:

Aug 2, 2007 - thats skeptic not sceptic

SistemaKaoso Says:

Aug 2, 2007 - Hey. That's in Santa Monica's 3rd Street Promenade. Michael Shermer was there....he's dreamy.

ampsarus Says:

Aug 22, 2007 - skeptic magazine- Thanks Steven! lol

hoskeebo Says:

Sep 13, 2007 - They really left out a lot of the real work. This was a pretty rudimentary setup. Still, it was a nice vid, and Dan and Michael are performing a good service. I just wish they wouldn't expose things like the "hype," because too many tyros will think they "know something" now. A little bit of knowledge is sometime worse than none.

brianrstevens Says:

Dec 16, 2007 - lol 5 dollar bets awesome

Vitotesta Says:

Feb 11, 2008 - The Ulitimate Con?....911 ! Watch 'Loose Change' and see how your government made it LOOK like a terrorist attach. Real terrorists? They live in the White House. War? It's a money making CON. That's not an insult to fallen heroes it's a wake up callfolks. Research while the internet is still legal!

spacekadet3 Says:

Mar 6, 2008 - bigfoot was responsible for 9/11. loose change was made by the whitehouse to distract people from the real terrorists. the big feet! did you see the pentagon? the hole was not made by a plane. it could only have been made by a bigfoot running real fast. who funded loose change? haliburton! check the records!

Vitotesta Says:

Mar 6, 2008 - If you believe in bigfoot it must be because you feel there is a bigfoot up your hind end when in fact it is the little dick in the whitehouse that is 'F'ing you from behind. Just relax and enjoy it cause there is plenty more coming your way from your pal 'W'.

spacekadet3 Says:

Mar 9, 2008 - i hate bush. but he didnt plan 9/11 or shoot kennedy or shooy down the hindenberg.

Vitotesta Says:

Mar 9, 2008 - Thank you for being relatively civil! I don't belive that George Bush could plan to tie his own shoes but his dad had a hand in Kennedy's assasination (Zapata Oil, CIA etc.)911 was hardly a terrorist attack. There is plenty of evidence as well as testiment from NYFD that what was sold to J.Q. Public wasB.S.. I just think that it is time to stop laughing and comparing real domestic generated terrorism with Bigfoot. People are blindly patriotic and asleep while being raped and gutted by liars.

spacekadet3 Says:

Mar 9, 2008 - i have looked at both sides. the buildings fell straight down because thats the only way they could. they wouldnt fall up or tip over like a tree. those planes caused alot of structure damage and all that fuel weakened what was left. i remember a plane crash in florida a few years ago that killed a member of the san diego chargers. when the news helicopter flew over the site there was no trace of the plane. cheney and rumsfeld should be in jail for those "weapons of mass dest" but not for 9/11.

spacekadet3 Says:

Mar 9, 2008 - p.s. bushs lawyer could plead mentally incompitent to stand trial and get off.

Vitotesta Says:

Mar 9, 2008 - It's not just the way buildings fell. Security tied to Bush. The building was 'prepared' prior to 911. Firemen felt and heard explosions inconsistent with crash or fuel leak. Planes were UNMARKED! "Terrorists' still alive, no wreckage in Pennsylvania, Pentagon hole and wreckage were not result of plane. Cellphone calls were bogas. Plenty of evidence. Iraq had no weapons. P.S. If we're the mightiest militia on earth why the struggle with the Flintstones? Perpetual war. Public struggle = Profit.

spacekadet3 Says:

Mar 9, 2008 - we could level iraq if we wanted to. just like isreal could level palestine. one side wants to just kill soldiers who are hiding among civilians. thats why we dont carpet bomb. i do think the bush administration is prolonging iraq because haliburton is making a fortune. i think its a very big stretch to think the white house planted charges in every floor of the wtc. nobody saw hundreds of charges being wired into every floor? that is going overboard.

spacekadet3 Says:

Mar 9, 2008 - also, my comment about the florida plane crash shows that planes can hit so hard that nothing is left. or nothing seen by flying overhead.

spacekadet3 Says:

Mar 9, 2008 - one more comment. there is no way any of this could have been kept secret by a government agency. if it happened the way you think then hundreds must have been involved. maybe thousands. i used to work for the government (and dont say i;m in on it. it was the tax dept). most people who work for the government are interested in 3 things. computer solitair, whats for lunch or how can i sleep with my secretary. its not loke the movies.

Vitotesta Says:

Mar 9, 2008 - First let me say that I truly appreciate your tone instead of the usually youtube spats. I have books from current time as well as books which date back to the '50's which detail how if ANYONE says two peeps to anyone else about subversive activity that they will be either fined, jailed, killed or have family killed. You don't think that's enough to keep quiet until it happens to you. PLUS..many who have been threatened HAVE come forward anyway! Why ignore the truth?

spacekadet3 Says:

Mar 11, 2008 - really? the guys who planted the charges in the wtc have come forward?

Jordancdarwin Says:

Mar 31, 2008 - Yeah, I don't think that the current US government can plan an absolute-precision event and keep it, and it's execution entirely in secret whilst simultaneously planning a facade-response. Remember, you're talking about a government that struggles to co-ordinate rebuilding the "twin towers" and giving them a miraculous efficiency. Your derivation of truth does not stem from a valid, reproducible background - the "9/11" report does have falsifiable data. Don't get excited on the word "false".

Jordancdarwin Says:

Mar 31, 2008 - If you had perhaps been involved in amateur physics experiments on the heat capacity of metal, or were able to disprove now-known facets of materials science using the scientific method then you would have a valid argument.The reason you feel you know there is a conspiracy is a defence mechanism. Your dislike of the government for failing to prevent the situation now manifests itself as a conspiracy theory in vigour befitting of such a tragedy.Google "The scientific cycle" & "falsifiability"

Godzilla1985 Says:

Aug 16, 2008 - Mostly Black criminals play this game.

Godzilla1985 Says:

Aug 16, 2008 - Black people trash their own neighborhoods, then blame in on white folks. Then they come to the downtown areas to run their scams on younger white kids.

kornbelt Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - that's beautiful :D

LUFTRITTER01 Says:

Dec 26, 2008 - This video is amazing.

bettyCA9 Says:

Dec 27, 2008 - *Great video but see "The Room" by Tommy Wiseau!AWESOME**DISCOVER "The Room MOVIE" by Tommy Wiseau! It's FUN!**


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