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A couple of years ago I wrote an article titled “The Myth of James Randi’s Million Dollar Challenge”. It’s one of the most read pages of all time here on the Grail, so it’s obviously a topic that many people are interested in.
Apart from the flaws in the MDC that I pointed out in my article, another element of this (and other) ‘paranormal prizes’ which disturbs me somewhat is the use of ‘cannon fodder’, in order to maintain the (somewhat dubious) validity of these challenges. And by ‘cannon fodder’, I mean those people that apply for these challenges, who truly believe they can win the money.
To my mind, some may not understand the odds properly, some are misleading themselves about their ‘talents’, and some are just plain unbalanced. That’s a worrying thing when combined with a high-profile test which is undertaken with the intention of publicity based on the challenger being unable to succeed.
A perfect illustration of this occurred last month, when the IIG (the ‘Independent Investigations Group’, a volunteer-run organization based with the Center for Inquiry) tested Regan Traynor, an individual trying to win the CFI’s $50,000 paranormal challenge with his alleged telepathic powers.
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Daily Grail: Challenging Skepticism
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A UFO sceptic was left terrified and running away so quickly he twisted his ankle, after seeing a mysterious craft and an otherworldly figure in Exmouth’s aptly-named Phear Park.
Retired engineer Roy Shaw was taking a night-time stroll with his dog, Sydney, when the close encounter happened.
He said: ‘The object was round, about 30ft in diameter and 100ft long, with blue and red flashing lights on its perimeter.
‘It appeared to land at the top end of the park by the bowling green. My dog started to growl when what I can only describe as a white shape came towards us.
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Metro: UFO sceptic has close encounter with ‘alien’ on bowling green
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How is it that most, if not all, of the entities seen around flying saucers and UFOs over the years have no problem with the gravitational pull of the Earth; that is, these supposed visitors from other planets seem to adapt to Earth’s gravitation as if it were exactly the same, or nearly so, to that from whence they came or come.
We’re referring to those entities that have been reported on the ground, such as the many dwarf-like creatures that habituated France, Italy, and Spain in the fifties, and the two “beings” reported by Lonnie Zamora outside the egg-shaped craft he spotted in 1964.
The creatures, in Pascagoula [October 1973] allegedly floated Hickson and Parker but were not “themselves” adversely affected by gravitation.
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The UFO Iconoclast(s): UFO “entities” and the gravitational problem
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There are many who claim to be able to speak to the dead. Many of those have been proved false by the investigations of such men as Harry Price. But even Mr. Price himself has never been able to explain the riddle of Eileen Garrett.
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Prairie Ghosts: HARRY PRICE – One of the World’s Most Famous – and Controversial – Ghost Hunters
The Harry Price Website: Eileen Garrett
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