AdadlaA.105 net.misc utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:CAD:teklabs!tekmdp!dadlaB!dadlaA!steve Thu Apr 15 13:08:31 1982 0,000 for Demonstrable PSI American offers such a prize, but the semi-retired magician Randi has offered such a prize for a long time. He is the guy who spent a lot of time chasing Uri Geller around proving that Geller was a charlatan. (Geller's tricks never seemed to work when Randi was present.) The terms of the bet as I understood it was that Randi would fork over a $10,000 bond to anyone who could do something with PSI that Randi could not duplicate with normal abilities. Presumably this would also involve Randi explaining how he had done it to forestall the presumption that Randi is also a user of PSI. So far no-one has claimed the bond. The bond has been sitting in a bank collecting interest for years. Randi, along with Martin Gardner and a few other rationalists are involved in the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP); whose sole aim in life seems to be the debunking of all forms of pseudo-science. By the way, as a means of sparking this discussion further, I invoke my favorite quote: "Facts without theory is trivia, theory without facts is bullshit". As far as I can tell, PSI and Creationism both fall into the latter category. Steve Den Beste ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.