You Too Can Learn All About Paranormal Investigation By Watching TV
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The JREF is proud to announce the winner of our Flim-Flam! iPad contest.
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Congratulations to Beth Goodbody of Virginia, who has won an iPad 2 and eBook version of James Randi's classic Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions.
Beth writes: "I'm stunned. Happy, but stunned! . . . I started out as one of the those people that believed in psychic powers, telepathy and such. As I started learning more and more about the sciences and how real science can be proven again and again I started to lose those other beliefs. . . Along the way I found the books of James Randi and then the JREF website. I've learned so much from Mr. Randi and the JREF on how to look at the supernatural and the claims of hucksters and how to apply critical thinking to those claims and call them properly what they are. . . . Thanks for drawing my name!"
As announced yesterday over the JREF's social networks, Beth's name was selected at random out of 5987 total contest entries. Thank you to everyone who participated!
The contest was offered as a special thank-you to our online supporters for helping the JREF get the word out about the new ebook version of James Randi's Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions.
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The JREF sees digital publishing as an important tool for advancing its educational mission to bring scientific skepticism to new audiences. Watch for additional titles to be released by the JREF in the coming months, including new digital-only releases and enhanced versions of some the most important classic and contemporary works of skeptical literature.
Web of Trust is a Tool for Skeptic Outreach
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Many forms of online skeptical outreach can involve a considerable commitment of time. Blogging, podcasting and even social media can take up many hours of each day. But what of those skeptics who would like to be involved, but don't have that kind of time to devote? It turns out there are many options.
I Really Have To Wonder...
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I was just sent a flash news release announcing that a “community program” titled “Prayer, Meditation and Medicine,” will be held at a location in Delaware to discuss the benefits of combining high-tech medical practices with “prayer and meditation.” This will be given by Dr. Mitchell W. Krucoff, Duke University Medical Center cardiologist and professor. He is the director of the MANTRA Study Project, in which the impact of therapies such as prayer, music, imagery and touch therapy on patients with heart disease, are recorded. Dr. Krucoff is recognized internationally for his pioneering heart research, though what portion of that research may be supernatural in nature, I cannot tell.
This program, we’re told, is “open to medical personnel, faith leaders and the general public.”
Now, I’m sure that these folks mean well, and are – somehow – convinced that prayer and “touch therapy” are effective means of medical treatment, but I hasten to remind them that the JREF million-dollar prize is available to them if they can show evidence of either of these modalities being effective, and I encourage them to make application. Evidence so far presented for the efficacy of such methods has failed to prove the case, though the benefits of music and meditation are doubtless generally beneficial to stressed patients.
I doubt that Banachek will be receiving an application for the MDC from the MANTRA Study Project...
Last Week at Science-Based Medicine
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Here is a recap of the stories that appeared last week at Science-Based Medicine, a multi-author skeptical blog that separates the science from the woo in medicine.
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