TESS role models should be more than showmen
Uri Geller (pictured above) is certainly a wonderful showman. It is, however, extremely unlikely that he can move clocks with his mind, as he asserts in your article (My best teacher, 16 January).
Mr Geller may have a place in TESS as part of a lesson on how to prove or disprove theories using the scientific method. He does not have a place as a role model in the way your column implies.
Next week, can we see something on scientific sceptic James Randi or doctor and Bad Science author Ben Goldacre, perhaps?
Damian Hayes
Principal teacher of social subjects, Dalkeith
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