JamesRandiSpeaks: Pigasus Awards 2008

[Update: We became aware after making this video that Pigasus winner Dr. Colin Ross has recently reactivated his Million Dollar Challenge claim. While this video is still technically correct, we thought it fair to add this.]

Every year, the JREF gives out the Pigasus awards; a dubious honor to people or organizations that have done their best in the past year to snuff out science and promote irrationality.

The 2008 Pigasus Awards announcement is online at:
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/pigasus-awards.html

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[frostyuk2007]

I've seen pigs fly, my local police station has a helicopter!!!

[pitbull103]

Randi > All Deities

[Mastfrancisco]

Vaccines? No link to Autism? New literature beg to differ.

[Nguli34689]

There really was a unicorn. If you take a look at one of serial killer Leonard Lake's photographs at the Renaissance Fair, Black Point, Marin County, you will see Lake and his wife with a goat having only one horn. How did this happen? The answer is simple: This goat was surgically altered, and it was called a "unicorn".

[nate556]

@Artorioux NLP ? There is very little credit to that. Some of it is handy, because their are physical cues to what's going on in peoples heads, but for the most part, i've seen a lot of it and it looks like BS.

[nate556]

@MrDoublehappy I knew there was something fishy going on. No one can grow a beard that perfectly! Except arabs....

[nate556]

@Klazzt In my experience, the only "health drink" that really works, is creatine... and that's only if you want to build muscles faster. It'll actually make you GAIN weight, not lose it. Losing weight is best done through running... and sweating. Funny how those go hand-in-hand, LOL.

[nate556]

@HueyTheDoctor87 Quantum Physicists don't even understand quantum mechanics, or even membrane theory. Randi calls bullshit where he sees bullshit. Can you show me any specific cases where Randi has called bullshit on someone mistakenly, or wrongly ? I would love to see the proof.

[ebrobaru]

@HueyTheDoctor87 He has never claimed to be a scientist. But he has a good and trained eye to find trickery when it is employed. He debunks proven frauds. He has never claimed that something does not exist. He only wants evidence. You sound like someone that just resorts to quantum physics and m-theory because it´s the "in" thing. Or how exactly do you intend to insert it on whatever topic Randi is debating?

[HueyTheDoctor87]

James Randi is no different to the people a hundred years ago saying no vehicle heavier than air would ever fly. He speaks with one hundred percent certainty on a subject he has no intricate understanding of. He is NOT a physicist, nor scientist of any kind. His lack of understanding on the topics of quantum mechanics, nonlocality and theoretical physics like m-theory make him an uneducated loudmouth who appears to be twice as desperate for attention as any of the people he 'debunks'.

[bananafix]

you are wrong about vaccines but we are both only offering opinions

[Klazzt]

Ugh. "Natural cure" and "diet" books. My mom has always been big on these stupid things. She's always trying some new diet and buying some new books and cookbooks for the new diet fads. She's kept a constant interest in "detoxing" and her latest diet trend is the "paleo-diet." It's annoying, but I suppose it's not wholly my mom's fault. People like Trudeau can be very persuasive when they talk about "what they don't want you to know." But a fraud is a fraud.