Editing Project Alpha (hoax) (section)

==Historiography==
In a 2023 series of their podcast ''World's Greatest Con'', [[Brian Brushwood]] and Justin Robert Young, incorporating their interviews with those involved in Project Alpha including Shaw and Edwards, made a case that Shaw and Edwards were the ones who led the effort and Randi's involvement has been greatly exaggerated in service of a simpler narrative easy for the masses to understand.<ref>{{cite podcast|last=Brushwood|first=Brian|date=2023|title=Project Alpha|work=World's Greatest Con|url=https://shows.acast.com/worlds-greatest-con/episodes|access-date=May 28, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gillespie|first=Nick|date=May 21, 2025|url=https://reason.com/podcast/2025/05/21/brian-brushwood-why-we-fall-for-scams/|title=Brian Brushwood: Why We Fall for Scams|work=Reason|access-date=May 28, 2025}}</ref>