A New Film Explores Houdini's Quest To Debunk The World of Mysticism

[Potoooooooo]

http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-new-film-explores-houdinis-quest-to-debunk-the-world-1749637712

When you hear the name Houdini, you probably get a very specific image in your head. That of a man in a straight jacket escaping something. But a new movie will explore a side of the legend many people don’t know existed: The skeptic.

 

[Keith&Co.]

http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-new-film-explores-houdinis-quest-to-debunk-the-world-1749637712

When you hear the name Houdini, you probably get a very specific image in your head. That of a man in a straight jacket escaping something. But a new movie will explore a side of the legend many people don’t know existed: The skeptic.

I don't know that i'd call Houdini a skeptic.

He got angry at frauds because he did truly believe in the woo. It was a strange aspect of the time, no matter how many frauds were exposed, many people maintained their belief that someone, somewhere, had the real thing, was really gifted, had real access to beings from beyond.

Houdini and several others fought to expose the frauds because they believed the frauds were interfering with identifying the actual psychics, mediums, mystics and so on.

Kind of like one of the characters in Life of Brian: "You're a messiah, and I should know, I've followed a few."