That growth has been accompanied by many joys and sorrows, as well. While I have personally gone through very difficult times physically, I’ve managed to survive nicely, I’m mending steadily, and I just got back from a very satisfying and successful lecture tour in Norway as well as having visited most of the rest of Scandinavia – and Estonia and Iceland – late last year. I’m fully back in the saddle now, and my forthcoming next book, “A Magician in the Laboratory,” will emerge later this year.
I wish I could tell you about the big steps forward that are planned for the JREF. At 82, I can still get excited about new adventures and accomplishments for us, and there will be much shouting from the rooftops before long, I promise you.
With quite a few personnel changes, all of which have been very positive for us, I can now see the JREF as the flagship of the forces of rationality, reason, and good science, attaining an ever-greater public profile and serving schools, the media, researchers, and students to understand and act when barraged by the nonsense that daily confronts us.
With our President D. J. Grothe at the helm, with Sadie Crabtree as a very active Communications Director, and with our other dedicated staff—and new additions to be announced in the short term—I can have full confidence in another fifteen years that I assure you I’ll try to stick around to witness and cheer on.
Thank you all for your support in so many ways. Gotta go. Another quack just quacked…
James Randi.