Just to fill in the details:
In 1978 a lot of people, mainly from Europe, USA and Australia were spending a lot of money going to the Philippines, to visit spiritual doctors, some even spending 2-3 month worth of salaries. A documentary from BBC was on National TV and after that a discussion about it. Baldur was one of the skeptics invited and said the so called “doctors” were presenting sleight of hand and good performance. He was asked in live broadcast if he could do the same and he answered “Yes”.
He got 3 days to prepare for the TV recording and did it according to what he had seen in the documentary.
This TV interview was done 30 years later and then they only showed bits and pieces of the original broadcast, but one of Baldur's condition was:
One take only with one camera, no editing and no cutting between angles, so people couldn't say it was edited and stuff loaded in his hands while the cameras were off.
And ... this was 8 years before James Randi's psychic surgery in Johnny Carson's Late Show.
One of the main doctors Icelanders visited in the Philippines, Antonio Agpaoa, got acute appendicitis in 1980 and was flown from the Philippines to a private clinic in San Fransisco USA for a more traditional operation with a scalpel, wich left a scar ... unlike the psychic surgeries he performed.
Here is a picture of him during the TV operation, where he even produced an egg from the ladies stomach and cracked it to show it was a real egg:
