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Originally Posted by John Freestone  I suggested to Steve Pavlina that he stop going on about 'manifesting' a million dollars (easy to explain in rational terms, in fact, especially if it's your business making money from doing naff all) and manifest just one single solitary dime, a physical coin, under laboratory conditions (very hard to fake, which is perhaps why no-one has won James Randi's million dollar reward yet, and probably never will). |
Another thing -- I have a possibility for Randi's million dollar experiment, but it would take some work to figure out how to design this experiment, and I don't have much motivation since apparently Randi rejects a lot of applications. He's got a big FAQ set up to explain why various experiments will not be considered. They've got a foundation, and you'd think if this was truly a scientific exploration, he should run one of these investigations on every single application he gets (except for ones that are dangerous), no matter how looney tunes he thinks it sounds, or even if, according to Randi, science has already "proven" that the subject at hand is impossible and/or the people who believe in it are delusional. And since he can just reject applications out of hand, that doesn't tell us much.
He has rejected, for example, applications involving crop circles, UFOs, cloud-busting, Ouija Boards, psychic healing, remote viewing, telepathy, and persons subscribing to Breatharian lifestyle. (I imagine there is a danger component regarding the Breatharian to take the challenge -- Randi might get sued if the person didn't make it.)