E-mail from Michael Roll to Dr Roger Berry (October 24, 2004): So-called Paranormal Phenomena

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"please be kind enough to write to the Home Office regarding the fact that whenever the subject of so-called paranormal phenomena is featured on mainstream media outlets the public are only being allowed access to just one expert opinion - the one being put forward by parapsychologists like Professor Richard Wiseman who start from the base that "paranormal phenomena" do not exist. "
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Hugh Thomas (February 28, 2004): Balancing the Arguments of So-Called Experts

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Why can't we see our qualified British physicists balancing the arguments of the American magician James Randi and the professional obscurants who are on his side?"
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Sam Nicholls (February 27, 2004): James "The Amazing" Randi

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"No qualified scientists are allowed on British television to put the secular scientific case for survival after death. There are far too many powerful "experts" with too much to lose when people eventually have access to the scientific case for a separate mind and brain."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to London University Students (June 18, 2003): The Independent Television Commission

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"There is a good reason why the priests, mullahs, rabbis, and ministers of religion like Billy Graham, must destroy the very idea of mediumship. This is because whenever we make contact with people in the etheric wavelengths the message is always the same, it never varies:

We all survive the death of our physical bodies, there is no place here just reserved for Christians or anybody else."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Craig Hamilton-Parker (October 9, 2002): Independent Television Commission

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Our job is easy, all we have to do is just point to two suppressed books that the priests and their allies are praying with all their might the people never come across. Thomas Paine and Arthur Findlay have done the job for us - 'The Age of Reason' 1794 and 'The Curse of Ignorance' 1947."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to an Inquirer (September 27, 2002): Noah's Ark Society

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"For goodness sake help us to make the Noah's Ark Society fall in with the wishes of their founders - Alan Crossley and Robin Foy. They wanted to hit everything on a scientific level and prove survival to every person on Earth, not just to those within the one-god religion of Spiritualism."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Uri Geller (September 5, 2002): James "The Amazing" Randi

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"It must be number one priority to balance the monopoly that James Randi now enjoys on all scientific outlets."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Steve Grenard (July 4, 2002): JREF Bonds and Bond Fraud and Scamming

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"(...) nobody who controls mainstream media and educational outlets in the UK is prepared to let scientists who have started from the base of a separate mind and brain to even balance the case put forward by Randi, Blackmore and co. Where on Earth is the justice in this one-sided domination of the press, radio, television and educational outlets?"
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Letter to the Producer of the Richard and Judy Show (June 28, 2002): Scientific Proof

In his letter In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"Scientists all over the world who have been fighting against linking survival after death with the scientific discipline of subatomic physics have now jumped on our winning bandwagon, including the Vatican's scientists led by the Jesuit priests!"
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E-mail from Jeff Rense, to Michael Roll and Ron Pearson (April 4, 2002): Presenting the Secular Scientific Case for Survival

In his e-mail, Jeff Rense writes:
"There was without question, an instinctive recognition by millions of listeners that your and Ron's work is LOGICAL, SENSIBLE, and PRAGMATICALLY brilliant."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Susan Woodward of Talksport (March 22, 2002): Academic accuses me of inventing Prof. Peter Wadhams!

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"we have stirred up a hornet's nest of hate from academics who are going to be made to look stupid as the truth hits more and more people.

(...) One academic got in such a state he accused me of inventing Prof. Peter Wadhams and that he has checked with Cambridge University and that there is no Prof. Wadhams there!"
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Letter from Michael Roll to the Producer of BBC 2's Newsnight (March 12, 2002): Failings of Education

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"...don't forget to remind these "teachers", who are guilty of mental child abuse, that no professional priest any longer believes in the doctrines and dogmas they are paid to pump into their flock."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Laurence Rees (August 8, 2000): Failings of Education

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"Lying to children is not only criminal deception, it is mental child abuse and this should carry exactly the same penalty as physical child abuse."
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Letter from Laurence Rees to Michael Roll (June 22, 2000): Houdini

In his letter, Laurence Rees writes:
"On your first point about Houdini's wife; it's clear from the broadcast we transmitted that Mrs Houdini maintained into the 1930s that no contact from her husband had been received, which seems to contradict the evidence you quote. However, I've asked our versioning producer, Carol Sennett, to look into it and if she can shed any light on this I'm sure she'll be in touch."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Greg Dyke (December 11, 1999)

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
”how about starting every religious programme with a Government Health Warning?”
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Letter from Journalist Garry Bushell to Michael Roll (August 22, 1991): JAMES RANDI: PSYCHIC INVESTIGATOR

This letter was written after James Randi's PSYCHIC INVESTIGATOR series was broadcast on television in the UK.

In his letter, Garry Bushell writes:
”I don't pretend to know anything about sub-atomic physics, but I am intrigued by your arguments & believe you should be allowed to state your case publicly, even if it is then knocked down.”


On August 8, Garry Bushell had published an article in The Sun.

In this article, he writes:
"None of it was remotely as interesting as the subjects Randi hasn't tackled yet - like crystal ball merchants or tarot card readers. Or more tellingly those scientists who claim there is a rational case for belief in life after death. Why have their arguments been kept off TV? I hear that comments from astro-physicist Sam Nicholls were cut from the show on mediums. Why?”
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Letter from Sam Nicholls to David Plowright (March 7, 1991): "OPEN MEDIA" SERIES ON THE PARANORMAL

This letter concerns the Open Media series, produced by Granada Television in the UK.
In the letter, Sam Nicholls writes:
"It is important to realise that magicians like Randi have a lifetimes experience in deceiving people for the sake of "entertainment" - they are experts at pulling the wool over the eyes of their audiences. Unfortunately, experience has shown that these individuals tend to forget that such deception is inappropriate to more scientific endeavours."
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