Prove Your Paranormal Powers and Win $250,000 from the CFI Investigations Group - Center for Inquiry

The Center for Inquiry Investigations Group will folk over a nice hunk of change if you can definitely prove that you can read other people's minds, or move objects with your mind, "under mutually agreed upon testing conditions." The prize has been $100,000 for several years, but "no one has ever been able to claim the prize," so they thought that by sweetening the pot, some "superpowers folk" would be tempted by the challenge. But no matter how good you are, you don't stand a chance, as this is a program of the Center for Inquiry, which is the home of the Skeptical Inquirer, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and the medical myth-busting website Quackwatch. This is the old CSICOP, for those not familiar with the name change. Read the story of one prize-seeking paranormal claimant, the Lightning Man, but you already know the outcome. And, yes, we've seen this before: beginning in 1964 magician James Randi offered a million dollars to anyone who could demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under "agreed-upon scientific testing criteria." More than a thousand people applied, but none were successful, though many have pointed out that the challenge as constructed was impossible to win. Randi's challenge ended in 2015, and we will use our psychic powers to predict that no one will win the CFI prize either. (PH)

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