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To: James Van Praagh
℅ Spiritual Horizons, Inc.
P.O. Box 9675
South Laguna, CA 92652

             

September 9, 2011

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Dear James Van Praagh:

As you know, the James Randi Educational Foundation has a long-standing challenge to self-proclaimed psychics, paranormalists, and mediums such as yourself: if you can demonstrate real psychic abilities under fair, mutually-agreed-upon conditions that prevent cheating, we will give $1 million USD to you or any spiritualist group or charity you wish.

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This week: The JREF responds when "Psychic Nikki" says she'll take our Million Dollar Challenge—maybe. Local media interview Randi in advance of his tour of Canada.

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Here is a recap of the stories that appeared over the last month at Science-Based Medicine, a multi-author skeptical blog that separates the science from the woo in medicine. 

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario’s muddled draft policy on “non-allopathic” medicine (David Gorski) http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/cpsos-muddled-draft-policy-on-non-allopathic-medicine/ CPSO is working on an update of their policy on nonconventional medical therapies. The draft is disturbing for its wishy-washy approach to the scientific basis of medicine, its pro-CAM bias, and its manipulative use of language such as the derogatory term “allopathy.”

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It is the time of year when students are starting their Fall semesters, and the JREF is pleased to be sponsoring two outstanding students with our Fifth Annual Academic Scholarships. This year, two $1,000 scholarships have been awarded, one to an undergraduate and one to a graduate level student. These students were selected on the basis of academic achievement, outreach and community service in the name of science and critical thinking education, and career objectives that are aligned with the goals and values of the James Randi Educational Foundation.

With great pleasure, the JREF announces the recipients of our 2011-2012 academic scholarships:

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Narine E. Wandrey
Undergraduate Award $1,000

 

Ms. Wandrey is starting her second year at the University of Dallas working towards a BS in Biology with a Mathematics emphasis. She is active in the Engineering Geologists’ club, an officer in her university science and math clubs, and she has performed geophysics fieldwork in New Mexico and Colorado; climactic, hydrologic, and data-mapping studies in Texas; and neurochemistry research at Louisiana State University. As a community volunteer in central and south Texas, she finds time to promote citizen-science outreach activities.

 

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Michael Shermer, as we all know, has contributed over and over again to our understanding of the real world, through Skeptic Magazine, in his many printed books, via the Internet, and his regular column in Scientific American Magazine.   With this brief note I alert our readers to his latest contribution, in answer to the tiresome conspiracy nuts who labor mightily to convince the world that the 9/11 tragedy wasn’t caused by religious fanatics trying to get to Paradise by a short cut. The article by Chris Mohr -- though I’ll easily admit that the engineering terminology is well beyond me -- is a gem that you should preserve and share…

Thank you once more, Michael and Chris.

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