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[evditchpig]

James "The Amazing" Randi is finally going to cancel his "Million Dollar Challenge," after years of offering it to any person who can, under labaratory conditions, demonstrate their "paranormal" powers.

The prize has been offered for twelve years, and so far not one person in the whole world has claimed the prize. Maybe because it's all a bunch

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[angellofdeath]

"real pull-a-rabbit-from-a-hat magic, not the 'burn a straw from a broom inside a pentagram and someone will love me' nonsense"

LOL.
Cause THOSE people would say you had it completely backwards.

[evditchpig]

I know...

Nancy, in the Rollingwood office, had some magazine featuring all kinds of hocus-pocus herbal/native/crystals dipshit remedies for every kind of ailment. Each advertisement talked about the wonderful stuff that that particular product would do. I tried talking to her about the nature of scientific studies, double blind experiments, statistical significance, and so forth, but she preferred anecdotes.

"It's 'alternative medicine' mostly because it doesn't work," I said. "If it worked, it would just be 'medicine.' Doctors would incorporate it into their list of treatments for the ailment..."

It all did no good.

[nsingman]

As a skeptic since childhood, I've long admired Randi and the work he does in this area. I doubt that anyone will put up or shut up, though.

[evditchpig]

I agree. But offering the prize money was always a good propaganda tool for a good cause, I think.

[evditchpig]

Yeah, I noticed that! But isn't he marketing himself differently now?

[hyper_enough]

Love it. Humanism at its best.

[evditchpig]

Randi rules!