James Randi

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.

Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened _ yet. And I admit that the reason I'm unable to accept the claims of psychic, occult, and/or supernatural wonders is because I'm locked into a world-view that demands evidence rather than blind faith, a view that insists upon the replication of all experiments _ particularly those that appear to show violations of a rational world _ and a view which requires open examination of the methods used to carry out those experiments.