It seems like there's lots of Uri Geller practices evolving from university studies, kind of creating jobs for those who didn't quite make it into the mainstream fields of research.
Many of those people are downright charlatans though. They might not even have the degrees they claim to have, let alone be in the know of the common scientific lingo and methods.
They usually do their own thing indeed, which is very typical for pseudo-scientists. Doesn't mean they are all wrong by definition and skepticism is good, but most of them are pretty much just loonies.
