Derren Brown

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Derren Victor Brown (born 27 February 1971) is a British illusionist, mentalist, painter, writer, and sceptic. He is known for his appearances in television specials, stage productions, and British television series such as Trick of the Mind and Trick or Treat. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Derren+Brown">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses

   · 2007 · cited 30,842x

2. Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0

   · 2007 · cited 24,849x

3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,039x

4. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,518x

5. Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)

   · 2008 · cited 17,480x

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Quotes

• “I decided that my magic had to change. That I had to give serious thought to presentation. That, in fact, my presentation of the effects is where my impact as a magician lies – I realised that it can turn a good effect into something artistic and stunning.”
• “One can be a true believer in anything: psychic ability, Christianity or, as Bertrand Russell classically suggested (with irony), in the fact there is a teapot orbiting the earth. I could believe any of those things with total conviction. But my conviction doesn't make them true. Indeed, it is something of an insult to the very truth I might hold dear to say that something is true just because I believe it is.”
• “The appreciation of a painting or a piece of music, for example, or even falling in love, is all about our subjectivity. But to decide that the entire universe operates in such a way, let alone to go to war because we are so convinced we are right that others must agree with us or die, that surely should demand a higher level of argument than 'It's true because I really, really feel it is.”
• “Moderate religious people may of course express distaste for such violence, pretending that the clear calls for grotesque and violent behaviour in their sacred book aren't there and cherry-picking the 'nice bits', but they are still guilty of not opening up the subject of belief to rational discourse, and in doing so are part of the machinery that leads to all the ugliness caused by fundamentalism.”
• “Science is unusual in that it is cumulative. It is a system built over time, wherein useful information is retained and ideas that simply don't stand up are discarded, based on the confirmation of knowledge through testing.”
• “If a piece of 'alternative medicine' can be shown to work reliably, it ceases to become alternative. It just becomes medicine.”

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Official website

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2018-09-17 Derren Brown at Foyles (cropped).jpg

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