million dollar challenge

Oddly, no official claimant. A test of high-end "audio" ethernet cable. Submitted by a writer at Ars Technica in response to a raving review for bazillion dollar ethernet cable for digital audio applications. 20 tests, 15 hits required to succeed. 6 misses and you're out. One at a time, random...

Wasn't very big. Even Chip Denman said Randi may have oversold it when, at the opening reception, he stated an announcement would come on the last day that would should make us all very happy. Chip: Randi is retired, but the Million Dollar Challenge will continue. We are looking into ways to...

As requested my claim as parsed in conversations with Loss Leader privately w/addenda In honor of the late Michel Gauquelin, who was hounded to death (he committed suicide), if what I hear is true, by those who faked their information, more on who these people and urls where I have read about...

This e-mail has been sent to challenge@randi.org Hello JREF, This fall, the Danish TV channel "Kanal 5" will air a program series where they attempt to solve unsolved crimes/murders using clairvoyants. http://www.kanal5.dk/page/thomas-mygind-p%C3%A5-clairvoyant-morderjagt%E2%80%A6 The host...

Paul Zenon challenged her to apply for it on live TV and she accepted, but then backed out, no surprise there. I was hoping to add the info below to the wiki page for the $1m challenge. Salway tweeted that she had received an email about the challenge, does anyone know whether this was an...

Today on Stern's show on Sirius SatRad, the subject of the "Long Island Medium," Theresa Caputo, was brought up by one of the show staffers, Sal Grovenale. Evidently Sal drank the koolaid, and actually believes her line of ********, and has been trying to get her on the show as a guest - he's...

I've recently started running a pen/paper RPG game (GURPS, if anyone is curious). The players all have psychic powers, but otherwise, the world is very similar to our own. One of the players mentioned in passing the Million Dollar Challenge as a possible source of cash. So, I need to be prepared...

I think the challenge for paranormal abilities is illogical. For one thing, the paranormal is akin to dark matter, in that it is obviously something, but it is not explainable yet. In this way it could be said that the people who discovered dark matter, dark energy, black holes and singularities...

Haven't been active on the forum in some time. But as TAM9 is getting so close I've been wondering where all the discussion of the challenge is. I've looked around and I'm not seeing the blog and all that stuff we were promised at TAM8. All I find is old stuff from Remie and before that...

Just saw this on Magic Cafe,apparently Banchek has confirmed this on Facebook! Sounds bizarre. http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=372119&forum=15&10

I have heard that Connie Sonne is now accusing Banachek of cheating while handling the cards at the MDC. Is this true? I cannot find a link to her actual interview saying this. Thanks

I did a search on this and didn't find a thread on the topic, so I apologize in advance if the question has already been asked and I just overlooked it. How do those who do not pass the preliminary testing react to the experience? Do they insist their talent still exists and the test was...

A note to all who are attending TAM 7 - you will want to be around on Sunday 12 July 2009 at 1pm for the Live Challenge Test of Connie Sonne. Assuming Ms. Sonne appears (and we have no reason to believe she won't) it's going to be a heck of a test with a huge audience and all kinds of...

I met Randi today at Blackpool magician's convention and during an interview with him he told me the great news the challenge is to continue,he hopes forever. He changed his mind after hearing psychics were cliaming it as a victory of sorts. :) Just to add he was a very friendly humourous...

Woo, I think this is the first applicant The Challenge has had from Denmark! This seems like a pretty standard claim for a dowser, so I'm pretty sure all the bases regarding protecting the pieces of cardboard from manipulation. And yes, Connie Sonne does have writings in news papers about her...

Connie Sonne has applied for the Challenge with the claim that she is able to dowse for certain numbers when they are written on one side of a piece of cardboard and the other side is blank, and the cardboard is shuffled and placed on a table numbers-down. Ms. Sonne has had interviews regarding...

This came up in a dinner conversation. How could a test be designed for the claims of a feng shui practitioner? Ideally it would be something along the lines of Emily Rosza's therapeutic touch test, where her entire investment was a piece of cardboard, a coin, a pencil and a tally sheet.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122607 I was reading over the correspondence between Koenig and Remie and this was the first time I've ever read a challenge that seemed to be rejected unfairly. The purpose of the MDC is to show proof that some paranormal event is...

Is the expense from the red boxes? If so, could a wharehouse with empty shipping containers be used instead?

Natal'ya Vorotnikova has applied for the Challenge with all required documents and the claim that she will be able to identify a box containing a male who speaks Russian in a warehouse type setting. According to Ms. Vorotnikova's Challenge claim, she will be able to identify a box (I am...

I've made this suggestion before, but I thought I would make it again: I think it would be a good idea to put lines, or blocks, for an applicant's initials next to each rule, and require that those lines/blocks be initialed in front of a Notary. The reason being is that I see it's fairly...

Mr. Koenig has applied for the Challenge with the claim that he will be able, on October 31st, 2008, to record instances of Electronic Voice Phenomenon (the voices of the dead) in Lake Helen, Florida. Mr. Koenig has met the academic affidavit and media presence requirements. Mr. Koenig...

On Sunday, August 31st at 5:30pm at Dragon*Con, Mr. Randi, Mr. Wagg, and myself will be giving a talk about the Million Dollar Challenge. As part of this talk, we will also be holding an impromptu dowsing Challenge in which we will ask for volunteers from the audience to participate. We are...

Does Dr. Satyaprakasham actually say that the volunteers have to stop taking their medication? Homoeopaths sometimes claim that medications (or even things like coffee or peppermints) can antidote the remedies (i.e. prevent the homoeopathy from working). If not, perhaps a test could be...

Howdy! In this thread about the Million Dollar Challenge claim of "Psychic Samurai" aka "The Professor", The Professor either asks a rhetorical question or suggests that employees of the JREF are "leaking" information. I responded to it, but the thread in question is just supposed to be about...

No doubt you've all seen references on this forum to the recent threads over at The Magic Cafe regarding this fellow and his claims that he will apply for the JREF challenge. I'm a regular poster on that board, and thought you would all like to know that Psychic Samurai is now claiming to have...

I'd like to post this for anyone in the psytrance community that believes in the concept of DNA Dancefloor Activation as well as those that believe in DNA activation music. Proving this concept could win any DJ in the psytrance community one million dollars. Many DJ's are saying their music...

My first ever comment for any of my YouTube videos! I am so proud that someone took the time to post. I only hope it isn't spam. It feels so special, I only wonder what his post means... "edition 1568 is the PROPHETIC WORK click on my name for the U R L to see how we stopped James Randi's...

Just how insane is the following proposal? We start a poll (or any kind of quest so to speak) to gather 1 million JREF members and/or people who know about the JREF and the Million Dollar Challenge and we ask each to donate 1 dollar to the JREF. Technically, from a realistic point of view...

Just saw this article that was linked to the Coast to Coast AM site. I apologize if it's already been brought up. http://www.dailygrail.com/features/the-myth-of-james-randis-million-dollar-challenge I'm curious to see what you will have to say about it. Nice to see the link to stopsylviabrown...