Gérard Majax
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Gérard Faier, known as Gérard Majax (April 28, 1943) is one of the most famous French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
illusionist.
He has appeared in many television programs, magic
Magic (illusion)
Magic is a performing art that entertains audiences by staging tricks or creating illusions of seemingly impossible or supernatural feats using natural means...
demonstrations, and movies.
From 1987 until 2002 he, along with Jacques Théodor and Henri Broch of the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, oversaw the International Zetetic Challenge
International Zetetic Challenge
The International Zetetic Challenge was an attempt to prove or disprove the existence of, or demonstrate events related to, the paranormal...
.
During the 1990s, on a late night television show by Thierry Ardisson
Thierry Ardisson
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Majax gave a demo of the "rotating table" supernatural phenomenon: a group of "randomly" selected people from the audience stood around a round table, put their hands on it, and the table went up and started rotating. Observation of a video recording made of this event showed that some participants had metal hacks hidden in the sleeves of their jackets. When the participants put the hands on the table, the hacks "pinched" the table underneath, allowing it to be lifted.
In 2000, he created a new theme park attraction called: The Hallucinoscope
See also
- James RandiJames RandiJames Randi is a Canadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation...
is an American illusionist and skeptic who has also offered a prize for a demonstration of paranormalParanormalParanormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...
phenomena. - La Maison de la Magie Robert-HoudinLa Maison de la Magie Robert-HoudinLa Maison de la Magie Robert-Houdin is a museum which fronts on the Royal Château de Blois. It is located in the Loir-et-Cher département in the Loire Valley, in France, in the center of the city of Blois...