million dollar challenge

First, a quote to begin my point: Now, suppose we add the following conditions:The "somebody" who offers the prize is Sylvia Browne.To accept the prize, you have to start by signing and notarizing an application form, written by Sylvia's lawyers.The application form is written in a language you...

This thread piqued my interest and raises the question of whether a successful, statistically better-than-chance detection of truthful and deceptive subjects would qualify for the Million Dollar Challenge? http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3316060&posted=1#post3316060...

I'm encouraged to do this by the threads around discussing the removal of the challenge where it's plain that lots of people would like it to stay and I'd be interested in the numbers. Now that people have had a little time to think about it, I'm starting a poll to find out for sure. Mods may...

Randi announced in the January 4, 2008, SWIFT that the challenge will end in two years so that the money can be spent: http://www.randi.org/joom/content/view/144/1/#i4 I'm dismayed and commented on the column. Isn't that against the donor's wishes?

I've looked over the FREF threads, and can't find evidence of Ms Hunter's qualifications for the Million $ Challenge. Where is the evidence of her "media presence"? Where is the evidence of her "academic" certification? Who is she -- a google search doesn't come up with anything except the FREF...

On another board that I subscribe to, a poster claimed to be a remote viewer, but gave four reasons that he wouldn't take the challenge: 1) His power was erratic as to both time and space; 2) He had a somewhat eccentric lifestyle and didn't want it publicized' 3) If he were proven to have a...

I found this posted recently on a woo site. Anyone tell me what the truth is regarding this?

Hopefully, this won't turn into a flame-fest (which means I'm going to keep my flame-thrower firmly under the desk), or be diverted to another forum, because I would like to consider the type of people who actually claim they have something worth testing or apply for the MDC. I haven't been...

James Randi Educational Foundation $1M Challenge http://www.randi.org/research/index.html Bonuses for JREF $1MC winners $2000 http://www.magickalshadow.com/challenge.html $2000 Jeff Corey jcorey@liunet.edu $50k finder's fee from Randi (unverified)...

I initially inquired about this challenge in August '05; again last August, and formally applied last November. So far, my experience has been: no action yet taken to follow up on my application, start formal negotiations over terms, or start the claim - so far that's 5 months (by contrast in...

What is the ultimate purpose of the Million-Dollar Challenge? What is it out to prove, in the final analysis? For years now, NOBODY has successfully passed the criteria of the Million-Dollar Challenge. To be able to reproduce various claims of the paranormal under rigorous laboratory...

Has anyone seen a product called mag-gro? (Check out mag-gro"dot"com.) I asked, through his comment page, if he was interested in $1M if they could prove it actually worked. He said he was, and added "I am also interested in locating ways to distribute my product to a wider audience. Mag-Gro...

Now this is just supid. Arrowhead over at LCF thinks he is going to enter a parrot in the one million dollar challenge to shut us up...damn idiot... :dl::dl:

This came up in a linked article on another forum.Here is link to this article: http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/skepticorgs/index.htm I see it's just a sentence out of context and not even in the actual article,but does anyone have any info?

Hi All, I'm new as a poster here, but I've been a reader of the site for a while now and a long time follower of the JREF and the challenge. I think I can't post URL's but I'll try, because this is what prompted me to get an account and post. I saw this link in one of my RSS feeds "James...

Every time I come to the Million Dollar Challenge page it says "Million Dollar Challenge Have any thoughts about the JREF Million Dollar Challenge?" at the top of the page. After countless attempts at finding the topic/thread for answering that question, I thought there should be a topic for...

This is in relation to the sept 8th SWIFT comments on Brian Josephson. Randi replies to some of Josephsons remarks on the JREF challenge. Josephson's comments are bold, Randi's replies in italics. The problem is that the Randi Foundation itself decides if an experiment is acceptable for testing...

Hi, I need some help defending the rules of the challenge, big surprise I'm sure. A bit about me: I am a prominent part of a large internet community, whose name I won't mention here only because it's considered "an adult community" and I don't wish to exert that onto people. But it's a...

A couple of years back, i was accepted for the Challenge and duly complied according to the terms, namely, to REVEAL one Prophecy from The Holy Bible. A multitude of Holy Bible Prophecies, fulfilled over the past 350 years were revealed - ACCURATELY... They rejected the Winning Claim saying it...

The purpose of the article is to seek co-operation with certain scientific research centers and other organizations to study my mysterious ability. As far as I am concerned, there is going to be a blockbuster in physics and biology fields if my mysterious ability had been fully explained. If...

Hello there, I am dedicating this topic to anybody that has been humiliated or harrased by the James Randi Foundation, I have contacted the foundation according to the website with a few questions, Some couldnt be answerd, some could, some ridiculed. I called up randi and asked him a few...

Does anyone have information about this letter? I was thinking about trying to win the bid and donate it to JREF. Would anyone be willing to help me with the cost?

Frank Eeeken, Brenda Dunne, Jomanda, Zammit, etc... =========================================== In view of rising costs of healthcare and human suffering around the world, I would like to draw and call your attention to the following - "We are heading for a health-care-'Nuremberg' " Some...

I'm just now entering into this mess, but here is a protocol proposal from a gentleman named Johnston who believes that he can prove astrology works, along with Randi's responses (in italics) ========================================= 1. I will submit 500 horoscopes of earthquakes and 500...

Dear All. I am a great psychic, who has come to be known by some, as 'Doctor Woo'. I would like to demonstrate my awesome powers to the so-called Randi $1 million challange (I did some remote viewing and all I saw were flashing lights in front of my eyes so this money does not exist! But...

The premise of my logic is this. The JREF million dollars is to be paid, not on exhaustive investigation of the claims of Sylvia, for example, but a simple test of easy questions. She doesn't have to get them all right, just a reasonable percentage. If she is right about being psychic, she...

After numerous attempts to persuade thinkandreason.com, that their $1,000,000 challenge to prove God exists, would not be paid by JREF, Vashek Pokorny, Administrator for the site finally withdrew the reference to JREF as the contact and distributor for the $1,000,000 reward paid to anyone who...

I wonder about the challenge. How can anyone be sure that it is not a fix by Randi and/or his employees. It hasn't been unknown for magicians to cheat psychics in tests eg Richard Wiseman recently fixed a test to take advantage of Natasha Demkina. There have also been allegations made by...

When it comes to Randi's million dollars, skeptics and believers have one thing in common. Both usually agree that it is unwinnable. Skeptics think this is because paranormal phenomenon do not exist, believers think it is because Randi's challenge is flawed and biased. In this post I will...

Didn't see this posted anywhere. There's a little sidebar on p.14 with a picture of Randi concentrating his mental powers while holding a spoon. Text as follows: Certified Superfreak [?] Think you have supernatural powers? The Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge is for anyone who can "show...