The Amazing Randi

Not enough of the three people who read this blog know about James "The Amazing" Randi.

He's a former magician, and probably the most famous skeptic around. (My mother asks: "So he just really, really doesn't believe things?") Very clever, mom. He's a skeptic in that he questions fantastic claims. Uri Gellar, spoon-bender of the 70s, is his arch-nemesis.

Anyway, his current claim to fame is his $1M prize to anyone who can prove supernatural phenomenomena under controlled circumstances. You can even monitor the claims being made, like Christel Burghardt of Germany who claims the ability to make a person's hand grow "with the power of my brain and my soul." To date, no claimant has ever made it past preliminary testing.