Before Randi’s retirement, JREF sponsored the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, which offered a prize of $1 million to applicants who could demonstrate evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event under test conditions agreed to by both parties.
You can imagine how many zeros of millions they paid out
He wrote a terrific book called Flim-Flam!, which I’ve read multiple times. It’s incredibly good. A book about anti-scientific bullshit written in 1980 holds up just as much today because it’s the same bullshit.
RIP Mr. Randi
You can imagine how many zeros of millions they paid out
I’ve just now read through his extremely lengthy Wikipedia article and all I can say is: What an amazing man.
Quite the guy!
Also - two kinds of Lemmings
(Second response was to screenshots of: a paragraph, a graph, and four bullets) 😉
I found your post and I actually was reading about American (il)literacy rates about a month ago hahaha. It’s truly sad. But that’s a funny reply!
He wrote a terrific book called Flim-Flam!, which I’ve read multiple times. It’s incredibly good. A book about anti-scientific bullshit written in 1980 holds up just as much today because it’s the same bullshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flim-Flam!
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