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The JREF Award "is given to the person or organization that best represents the spirit of the foundation by encouraging critical questions and seeking unbiased, fact-based answers." Some of the recipients include the following: As part of the JREF's goal of educating the general population about science and reason, people involved in their community ran a popular skeptic based online forum [28] with the overall goal of promoting "critical thinking and providing the public with the tools needed to reliably examine paranormal, supernatural, and pseudoscientific claims". [29] An interest in James Randi and Penn and Teller brought me to the JREF forum long before I started posting on the SGU forum. easy peasy Japanesey" doesn't mean anything. it is used to say something's easy, but the "Japanesey" is meaningless. It is there because it rhymes.

Board of Directors of The James Randi Educational Foundation. "JREF Status". James Randi Educational Foundation. James Randi Educational Foundation . Retrieved 15 October 2016. The foundation produced two audio podcasts, For Good Reason which was an interview program hosted by D.J. Grothe, promoting critical thinking and skepticism about the central beliefs of society. It has not been active since December 2011. [19] Consequence was a biweekly podcast hosted by former outreach coordinator Brian Thompson in which regular people shared their personal narratives about the negative impact a belief in pseudoscience, superstition, and the paranormal had had on their lives. It has not been active since May, 2013. [20] There have been times when I wanted a breakdown on a particular type of woo and that was the only place with detailed analysis beyond the usual "Yeah. Probably not true". I really appreciate when someone takes the time to explain why a thing is or is not correct in detail as opposed to hand waving (even when the hand wave is correct).a b "Los Angeles Office Closed". James Randi Educational Foundation. September 1, 2014 . Retrieved 2014-09-02.

Welcome to the International Skeptics Forum, where we discuss skepticism, critical thinking, the paranormal and science in a friendly but lively way. You are currently viewing the forum as a guest, which means you are missing out on discussing matters that are of interest to you. Please consider Other than that though, I never found myself moved to join or participate in their discussions and didnt think much of the discourse in general (I thought their american gun thread was pretty poor tbh while I think the one here is probably the best I have ever seen in terms of actual discussion).JREF Offers a Number of Scholarships and Grants for Students, Educators and Local Skeptic Groups". Randi.org . Retrieved 2013-07-02. Christopher, Milbourne (1975). Mediums, Mystics, & the Occult. Thomas Y. Crowell Co. ISBN 0-690-00476-1.

Form from 2008 for The James Randi Educational Foundation(cite line 12)" (PDF). Foundation Center. [ permanent dead link] Hall, Harriet. "Science Based Medicine". JREF. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11 . Retrieved 14 June 2016. This forum is smaller and therefore better suited to what I want. I can get a sense for who people are. Granted sometime they change their forum handles and I get really confused (you know who you are... even if I don't anymore), but we have some people who are active in spurts (SQ the enigma or NeutralMilk for example), and yet have been here long enough that you know who they are when they grace us with their presence. Then there are somewhere around 30 posters who are here reliably pretty much every week in some form, each with their own posting styles, personalities, and interests. It's small enough that I feel like reputation matters a bit. You have to actually be concerned that what you say in one thread will be remembered and held against you if you contradict yourself elsewhere. There's a size which just makes even frequent posters fairly anonymous or reduces all people to caricatures or stereotypes because you can't keep them straight. I just got the sense that the community was too big to really have the feel of a community that I like. From 2003 to 2015, the JREF annually hosted The Amaz!ng Meeting, a gathering of scientists, skeptics, and atheists. Perennial speakers include Richard Dawkins, Penn & Teller, Phil Plait, Michael Shermer and Adam Savage. Polidoro, Massimo (2003). Secrets of the Psychics: Investigating Paranormal Claims. Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-59102-086-7.in England (though hardly anyone says it), a phrase I have heard, and probably said dozens of times, is