Enjoy the JREF on YouTube
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I am happy to announce that the James Randi Educational Foundation has been granted a nonprofit channel on YouTube. The JREF's YouTube channel is already the 10th most subscribed nonprofit channel of all time!
We will now be able to post full-length videos in their entirety, including panels and presentations from The Amaz!ng Meeting, rather than being limited to short ten-minute clips. We will be moving our existing collection of videos into the channel, to help us reach new audiences on YouTube with more exciting content, broadening the reach of our work to promote skepticism and critical thinking. The first two full-length videos from TAM 2011 have just been posted, including the important and popular talk by the JREF's Sadie Crabtree.
You can see all of our videos on the JREF's YouTube Channel.
In addition, this is where we will be posting episodes of our new project The Randi Show, featuring James Randi and JREF Field Coordinator Brian Thompson. Watch the first episode on YouTube.
The JREF's videos have been watched on YouTube more than 5 million times, and our channel currently has nearly 40,000 subscribers. If you're not a subscriber yet, visit our channel and click subscribe to get the latest videos from the JREF.
I hope you enjoy the videos JREF provides online for free, and that you share them with others who may benefit from our work to combat unreason and provide the public with reliable information about extraordinary claims.
D.J. Grothe is president of the James Randi Educational Foundation.
How Bad Can It Get?
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James Van Praagh has chosen – wisely – to avoid the direct JREF challenge with which we confronted him recently. He knows full well that he cannot pass any properly designed and controlled observation of his fumbling "cold reading" attempts, and he hopes we'll go away. Well, we won't. I'm sure he's already consulted his pack of lawyers, but to no avail.
He apparently depends solely on two characteristics in his audiences: he looks for naivety and he uses the tired old fast-guessing ploy to get lucky, when he can. Watch this video to see VP when he's faced with a group of rather more perceptive folks who won't allow themselves to be bullied into nodding assent to every inane and obvious gimmick he offers them...!
Weekly Media Roundup, November 18, 2011
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- McGill Daily, November 7, 2011
The bullshit detector
The tradition of magicians using their experience in trickery to expose duplicitous frauds continues to this day, most notably with James Randi. ...The JREF puts its money where its mouth is, and offers a million U.S. dollars for any claim that holds up under double-blind testing. The foundation takes every claim at face value, and asks the question: “If this is true, then how can we prove it?”
- Doubtful News | Skeptic Magazine, November 13, 2011
The JREF awards grants to two educators to address popular pseudoscientific beliefs
I love that both of these projects DIRECTLY address paranormal/supernatural claims. This is important because it keeps kids engaged and helps them see clearly, not generally, the way these ideas fall apart under a critical eye and how science works to get closer to the truth.
- Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine, November 9, 2011
On the birthday of Carl Sagan
... James Randi eloquently and emotionally talks about his friendship with Carl ....
Introducing The Randi Show
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We are very pleased to announce the premiere of The Randi Show, a biweekly video podcast featuring James Randi himself discussing news from the worlds of science, pseudoscience, and the paranormal and sharing a few personal stories from his amazing life along the way. In our first episode, Randi discusses a new development in cold fusion. Has someone finally invented a way to make it work?
Stay tuned to the JREF's new and improved YouTube page for more episodes, or find The Randi Show on iTunes.
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural for the Nook and Kindle
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One of the most important reference books on the supernatural, paranormal, and occult is now available for the Kindle and Nook e-readers (iPad version coming soon). The JREF has made James’s Randi’s An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural available in popular e-book formats for the first time at the special price of just $4.99. In this remarkable encyclopedia, James Randi casts his skeptical eye on the dubious claims of the occult and the supernatural. With 666 entries and hundreds of illustrations throughout, this book examines the shady world of manipulators, occultists, and shamanists in microscopic detail. Download it today.
Check out other JREF digital publication for the Kindle, Nook and iPad here.
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