Well, in James Randi's case, he was saddened by the amount of fraud done
on innocent people who called themselves "psychic," telepathic," able to
"talk with the dead" and so forth. So he, Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, and
many notable and not so notable people got together to form form CSICOP
(now Commitee for Skeptical Inquiry, CSI) and other organizations. For
his hard work, he was given the MacArthur genius grant (I think
$150,000.00, which, about 1980, is easily double that in 2019 dollars!).
He hoped he would find someone capable - but he, like Dr. Mike Sherman,
Dr. Ray Hyman, etc. - even with a "bait" of a million dollars if they
performed, found no one, in spite of so, so many prospectives.!
So, to answer your question, Tomasz, subjects you suggested were not
part of what Randi pursued, although Randi did work with Dr Stephen
Barrett of Quackwatch, and accupuncture, and many claims of "natural
healing" or Chinese medicines would qualify for his million dollar
prize.... (not sure if the prize is available, as Randi retired 3-4
years ago)... look at randi.org for details and his archives.
Cheers! Howard Marks
On 5/25/2019 10:12 AM, Tomasz Rola wrote:
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:25:16AM -0500, howardmarks wrote:
[...]
In 20 years, Randi's team couldn't find one person that could
perform under any conditions - and PSICOP, ditto, for 100 years. And
then, there's Michael Shermer's work, Hyman's, etc.
Cheers! Howard
This is not a sarcasm, but it may sound like it: perhaps, those
researchers should train their methodolody on something that should be
much easier, like, say, proving existence of romantic love? In a lab,
with cameras etc. And, of course, give a prize to those who can
successfully demonstrate it on themselves.
Maybe proper testing is hard.
Not when the prediction to be tested is clear. The testing is
easy....getting a supernatural outcome is hard.
Brent
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