$1,112,000 for a miracle


James Randi.

The well-known American illusionist, TV presenter and popularizer of science James Randi several years ago offered a prize of ten thousand dollars to anyone who unambiguously and unequivocally demonstrates any of the so-called parapsychological or extrasensory phenomena.

Telepathy, clairvoyance, and levitation (lifting a person into the air without any technical devices), and telekinesis (moving objects with the power of thought), and spiritualistic contacts with the afterlife, and surgical operations with bare hands, and other phenomena that do not fit into the usual ideas of science and common sense a. If only the demonstration, carried out under the controlled conditions of a scientific experiment, was demonstrative and indisputable.
Since the announcement of this award, more than 260 other people and organizations interested in the problem have joined their contributions to the fund created by Randy, and by the spring of last year, the amount of the award had grown to one million one hundred and twelve thousand US dollars. There were applicants for it, but none of them managed to undeniably demonstrate their supernatural abilities.

Our editors received from the Internet the full text of the announcement of the award. We publish his translation. Note that the English text is considered legally valid in the United States, so we ask our psychics not to send Mr. Randy leaflets from Science and Life, but to ask him for signing, as stated in the announcement, the original text. It seems that in our country there are quite a few phenomena who want to pick up the thrown glove.
This statement outlines the main conditions under which I am making an offer to those who claim psychic, supernatural, or paranormal abilities. Since applicants' applications will be very diverse in nature and scope, each applicant must have its own specific verification rules. However, all applicants must agree to the ground rules here proposed before entering into any formal agreement with me. The applicant must declare his consent by signing this text in the indicated place in the presence of a public notary and returning the signed text to me. Before any verification procedures can begin, both parties will need to agree on what the final verification procedure for claimed abilities should be. We cannot pretend to be judges. The verification scheme will be developed only with the participation of the applicant. Before starting negotiations, each applicant must submit information about himself. Since the volume of correspondence can be considerable, please include an envelope with your address and stamp, or - if you do not live in the USA - just an envelope with your address inscribed with your letter.

This offer is now provided and guaranteed by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JFED) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The offered amount is constantly growing. You can request Educational Foundation James Randi on how big she has gotten so far.

I, James Randi, undertake to pay the sum of US$1,112,000 through the James Randi Educational Foundation to any person (or group of persons) who demonstrates any psychic, supernatural or paranormal ability of any kind under satisfactory conditions of observation. Such a demonstration must take place according to the following rules and subject to the following restrictions:

1. The applicant must clearly state in advance and agree with Mr. Randy exactly what powers or abilities he is going to demonstrate, as well as the conditions of the proposed demonstration (its time, place and other details), and what will be considered a positive and what a negative result.

3 . The applicant agrees that all data (photographs, audio or video footage, recordings) of any kind collected during the tests may be used by Mr. Randi in any way that J. Randi himself chooses.

4. The test plan will be designed in such a way that no judging procedure is required. The results should be self-evident to any observer and follow the rules that both parties involved will work out together before the formal testing procedure begins. No detail of the test procedure may be changed without the express consent of all parties concerned.

5. The applicant may be asked to first informally demonstrate his declared ability in front of a representative appointed by the OFDR, if distance and time dictate such a need. This pre-screening should help determine whether the applicant is truly capable of delivering what was promised.

6. Expenses such as travel, accommodation or other expenses incurred by the applicant shall be paid by the applicant himself.

7. By accepting this challenge, the applicant waives all of his or her rights to sue Mr. Randy or the OFDR, in so far as the existing provisions permit. This applies to cases of any injury, accidents and to the incurrence of any other damage, physical or moral, financial or professional. This rule does not affect the award of the prize in any way.

8. Prior to the commencement of the formal testing procedure, Mr. Randy will hand over a check for his share of the promised premium (US$10,000) to safekeeping to an independent person chosen by the applicant. In the event that the applicant successfully proves his or her ability under mutually agreed terms, the $10,000 check will be immediately distributed to the applicant by the person holding the check, and the James Randi Educational March 31, 1996 to 1,112,000 US dollars) about the need to pay the additional amounts promised by them to the applicant. In any case, OFDR undertakes to pay the entire promised amount within seven (7) days, and assumes the obligation to collect the promised amounts from the guarantors. This will facilitate the payment of the full amount to the applicant.

9. Copies of this document are sent free of charge to any person who sends a request with an enclosed envelope with a return address and a stamp attached.

10. This proposal is independently submitted by the James Randi Educational Foundation and not on behalf of any other person, agency or organization, although other parties may be involved in reviewing applications. Other persons or organizations, subject to certain conditions, may add their own funds to the amount of the award. The implementation and testing is provided by J. Randi and (or) OFDR.

11 . This offer is open to all persons in any part of the world, regardless of gender, race, education, etc., and will remain valid until anyone receives this award or until the death of James Randi. Randi's will states that after his death, the amount designated for the award will be deposited in the name of the James Randi Educational Foundation, which will manage the money. The Foundation is mandated to continue to circulate the offer of the award for 10 years after the death of James Randi, after which the amount may be used by the Foundation for any purpose it chooses.

12. Each applicant must agree in advance on the criteria by which it will be decided whether or not he has demonstrated his claimed ability or phenomenon.

By signing, notarizing and sending this document to the OFDR, the applicant expresses his agreement with all the above rules.

James Randi , on behalf of the James Randi Educational Foundation, c/o James Randi Educational Foundation, 201 S.E.Davie Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316-1815, USA .

Warning

Please bear in mind that several applicants have already put themselves in a very awkward position by failing the tests. I strongly advise you, before being nominated for an award, to independently conduct a double-blind experiment in all the rules of science to test the ability you want to demonstrate. This advice has already saved me and many applicants a lot of time and trouble, since in preliminary experiments it was found that the declared abilities were only imaginary. Please check yourself and don't dismiss the need for this precaution.

When the first season of the "Battle of Psychics" was shown on TNT, it was said when determining the winner: she will now be able to take tests at the James Randi Foundation.
Better like that Mikhail Vinogradov, a forensic scientist was asked, did the trials of the finalist of the Battle take place there? For what Vinogradov replied that Randy is a scammer, a million is not paid out in cash, but they are promised only in shares of this Fund. At the same time, it was mentioned that you have to pay for everything out of your own pocket: hotel, food, transport. There are no details, but these hint enough at what is visible Vinogradov with Vorotnikova Apparently they have been there.
And so they sent me a link on my website about an article about how others passed a type of test with Randy:

Accidentally came across an article "Exposing James Randi" confirming that James Randi in every possible way avoids an excuse to spend his million. He is not at all interested in the opportunity to prove that there are people with supernatural powers. He simply had the opportunity to live comfortably at the expense of the collected million, so such people are a threat to his prosperous life.


In one of the issues of NGN, an article was published about James Randy who offers a million dollars to a psychic who can prove he has supernatural powers. In response to the article, the editors received a letter from the United States with the following content:
« Accidentally stumbled upon an article in your newspaper Gennady Matveeva Chimera Destroyer. It mentioned Natasha Lulova who challenged James Randy. I - Mark Komissarov, teacher Natasha. James Randy turned out to be a very dishonorable person, and we Natasha were not prepared for this dishonesty. It turned out to be a stolen victory for us and a psychological trauma for Natasha. But the meanness of this man did not break us. For the first time, the challenger who was defeated again goes to the start. And it's amazing James Randi. But more serious surprises await him. Today we are ready to resist his dirty tricks. Trust me, what demonstrates Natasha- absolute reality. I lead a class and students like Natasha I have several. She is not a phenomenon.

Sincerely, Mark Komissarov ».

"A well-known American illusionist, TV presenter and popularizer of science" - this is how the former magician was described James Randi one of the publications. In fact, with his merits in the popularization of science, only Torquemada- The Grand Inquisitor of the Middle Ages. And is it even legal to talk about some kind of rivalry when it comes to like-minded people? This is not a rivalry, but just a friendly competition in terms of the number of sprouts of the new that have been roughly trampled into the mud and ruined.

I take the liberty of making such a statement because I know Mr. randy firsthand. Fate wanted to bring us together. The fact is that I do what the American Association for the Advancement of Science defines as "Parapsychology", and people in everyday life call "Clairvoyance".

In particular, we are working with the ability of the human brain to Informational Perception of the World. That is, to our brain receiving information from the outside directly, without using the senses for this. We are doing this quite successfully, and our results on an uninitiated person can really impress a miracle. My students, wearing a tight bandage over their eyes, read and write, move around the room, play with a ball, and even box. They are able to see into the past, read text from a blank computer monitor, see through walls, and much more.

Quite by chance, about a year and a half ago, I came across a newspaper article dedicated to James Randi and his appeal to any person with paranormal abilities. There, in particular, it was said:

« I, James Randi, I undertake to pay the amount of 1,000,000 US dollars through James Randi Educational Foundation any person (or group of persons) who demonstrates any psychic, supernatural or paranormal ability of any kind under satisfactory conditions of observation».

After reading this appeal, I thought that this is a great opportunity for us to declare that paranormal phenomena are not fiction, but an objective reality. Yes, if at the same time our school can get a financial base in the amount of a million dollars, then this will give us a good opportunity for further development.

I entrusted one of my best students, Natasha Lulova, to represent our school in Randy's challenge. This ten-year-old girl perfectly demonstrated the ability to visually perceive the world around her without using her organs of vision. On her behalf, through a lawyer, an application was filed in James Randi Educational Foundation. I will say right away that our attempt James Randi failed successfully. The desire to understand the technology of such a “skill” made me take up the pen.

So a few years ago James Randi took on his not too powerful shoulders an extremely difficult and honorable (in his opinion) mission - to publicly expose charlatans-hoaxers who presented their clever tricks as miracles, and called them paranormal manifestations. The lord himself randy, as a former magician, of course, he did not believe in miracles, he did not like amateur conjurers and therefore set about exposing them with all the fervor of his restless soul.

Although, it must be said that the very concept of a "miracle" in Mr. randy was somewhat specific. However, as well as about the methods of its exposure.

... Imagine that by the will of fate you find yourself a guest of an Indian tribe in the jungles of the upper reaches of the Amazon River. This tribe, in its development, is still in the Stone Age, and you, wanting to impress them, show them a radio, a video camera and cellular telephone. And then ask the natives if there are miracles in the world? You can be absolutely sure that they will answer you positively. What to take from them - savages ...

USA Key Figures Web site

James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) is a private educational foundation created by James Randi. Registered in the USA. Engaged in research and scientific verification of the facts presented various persons and organizations as so-called "paranormal phenomena".

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Data in this article is correct as of October 30, 2012.

The award proposal has been revised several times, and is currently in revision 2.0 of March 9, 2011.

The introductory part of the proposal says:

The JREF will pay US$1,000,000 (One Million US Dollars) ("The Prize") to any person who demonstrates any psychic, supernatural, or paranormal ability under satisfactory observation. Such demonstration must take place under the rules and limitations described in this document.
(JREF will pay a bonus of USD $1,000,000 (one million US dollars) to any person who demonstrates any psychic, supernatural, or paranormal ability under conditions of correct experimentation. Such demonstration must be conducted within the rules and restrictions described in this document.)

Official application for the award, the Russian translation is not official

Until now, not a single applicant has been able to achieve this award, although there were quite a lot of applicants - about 50 people apply for testing a year. One of the first testing experiments was testing a group of people who declared themselves dowsers and claimed that they could find water underground. For testing dowsers, a method was developed, described later in this article. Not a single applicant passed the test according to this scheme.

At least one candidate for the award from Russia is known - this is Natasha Lulova (at the time of testing - ten years old, originally from Russia, has been living in the USA for the last few years with her parents), who, under the guidance of a certain Mark Komissarov (also a native of Russia, by education - chemical engineer) tried to demonstrate the ability to distinguish colors and read words without the help of vision. The testing was failed, at the same time the key to the “phenomenon” was found - the girl, due to the structural features of her face, could simply peep through an insufficiently tight bandage.

Repeated attempts by Randy to involve well-known "psychics" and "magicians" in testing were unsuccessful. His proposals were refused, in particular, by the Israeli psychic Uri Geller, who became famous for his ability to bend spoons with his eyes and stop and start the clock at a distance, the French homeopath Jacques Benveniste, the spiritualist from Arizona Gary Schwartz, who demonstrated communication with the dead on a TV show. Psychic Sylvia Browne avoided testing, saying from the TV screen that she could easily receive the Randy Foundation award.

Since about 2007, only people with publications about their abilities in the media, or with documents confirming their abilities issued by official academic organizations, can apply for testing.

Conditions and testing procedure

Any applicant, able-bodied, who has reached the age of 18, is allowed to test, regardless of his gender, race and level of education. An application for testing is submitted in writing (the form is published) to the JREF office, in which the applicant must briefly (within 250 words) describe the essence of his paranormal abilities. In order for the application to be considered, the applicant must provide evidence of his declared ability. They are accepted as such:

  1. Official recommendation from a professional scientist, academic organization, or MD.
  2. Publications in printed works or media (except those self-published by the applicant and/or published exclusively on the Internet).
  3. High-quality professional video recording (recordings made by the applicant themselves are not accepted).

The first or second kind of recommendations are preferred. In any case, each application and each set of recommendations is considered individually. If the application is accepted, the applicant is informed of this in writing, otherwise, a justified refusal is sent. An applicant who provided only a video as a recommendation may be denied acceptance of the application without explanation.

The Randy Foundation accepts as evidence of psychic abilities only the results of its own testing, conducted in accordance with officially published rules. No other evidence, including documents, videos, testimonies of third parties, is the basis for the payment of the premium. The Foundation also reserves the right to refuse the applicant if the experiment is highly likely to be dangerous to the life and health of the test subject or other persons (in particular, it is associated with restriction of food, water, breath holding, the use of narcotic or other dangerous or prohibited substances, the use of dangerous technical devices).

According to an official announcement from the James Randi Foundation, psychic testing is conducted according to the following basic principles:

  1. The applicant must clearly and unequivocally state what abilities he will demonstrate.
  2. Between the applicant for the award and representatives of the fund, it is agreed in advance how the experiment will be set up. Also, the parties must agree in advance what will be considered a positive and what a negative result of the experiment. The experiment is structured in such a way that its result is obvious to anyone. normal person who has read the agreement between the applicant and the fund on what is considered a positive and what is a negative result. Thus, the presence of a panel of judges and the possibility of disputes about the results of the experiment are excluded.
  3. The applicant may be asked to conduct an informal demonstration of his abilities in conditions approximating official testing, so that the parties can verify the acceptability of the experimental conditions.
  4. After the documented approval of the procedure, the applicant must pass a preliminary test. Preliminary testing is carried out once and must be successful. Only after passing it, the applicant is allowed to take the official test, which, if passed, is the basis for the award. The text of the proposal emphasizes that so far no applicant has reached the stage of official testing.
  5. The official test is conducted at the foundation's office or at another location chosen by the foundation. At the official test, an independent observer is present, to whom a check for $10,000 is handed over by the foundation. If, as a result of the experiment, under its stipulated conditions, the applicant actually demonstrates the claimed paranormal ability, the observer must immediately hand over the check to the applicant. The rest of the premium is paid by the fund through the bank within no more than ten following days.

In addition, a number of procedural rules and legal guarantees are stipulated, in particular:

  1. Any correspondence regarding the application is conducted only in English.
  2. Any informational materials obtained during the experiment, including photographs, video and audio recordings, etc., can subsequently be used by the foundation anywhere and anytime.
  3. All expenses for travel to the place of testing, accommodation, meals are paid by the applicant.
  4. Applicant waives in advance prosecution Foundation and James Randi, if the test or its results cause moral, physical, material, professional or other damage to the applicant.
  5. An applicant who has not passed the pre-test can submit a re-application no earlier than 12 months after the first one was submitted. The same applicant cannot apply more than twice.
  6. In the event that the applicant is able to pass the official test, the foundation will pay him a bonus and officially recognize the fact of passing the test and payment, but this will not mean that the foundation recognizes the existence of supernatural phenomena.

Testing example (dowsing)

When the location of the pipes was opened, it turned out that none of the dowsers passed the test. Borga carefully placed his markers, but the closest one was 8 feet away from the active tube. Borga said, "We lost," but two minutes later he began to complain that he hadn't accounted for things like sunspots and geomagnetic variations. The two dowsers thought they had found natural water before the test, but disagreed with each other about where it was, as well as those who did not find it at all.

Notes

Links

  • Application for testing in the JREF fund - Russian translation (by now the translation is outdated compared to the current edition of the fund's proposal).
  • The myth of the million dollar challenge (English) - a critical article on the site of supporters of the paranormal. An anonymous author (Greg) argues that the Randy Foundation's proposal does not serve the conscientious scientific study of the paranormal, as it contains too high requirements, practically eliminating the award. See also randi.org answer - "The Grubbies Attack!" - where Randy explains why high statistical criteria are chosen.

Literature

  • Christopher, Milbourne (1975) "Mediums, Mystics, & the Occult", Thomas Y. Crowell Co., ISBN 0-690-00476-1
  • Polidoro, Massimo (2003), "Secrets of the Psychics: Investigating Paranormal Claims", Prometheus Books, ISBN 1-59102-086-7
  • Randy, James (1982) Flim Flam! », Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-198-3

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STORIES

About the James Randi Foundation
(or exposure of psychic phenomena)

James Randi is a famous American illusionist and TV presenter. And also an active fighter against psychic quackery - this is what he is famous for.

Being a professional magician, he is familiar with the technology of tricks firsthand, so he easily noticed that those people who call themselves magicians, mediums, parapsychologists, psychics, clairvoyants, shamans and other sorcerers actually do the same thing that he does. - they're just being tricky.

In other words, James Randi is convinced that psychics do not have any of the supernatural powers they claim to have, but simply fool people with magic tricks and psychological tricks. And if you properly delve into them, then you can expose any sorcerer.

As an honest man, James Randi opposes fraud and charlatanism, so he decided to devote himself to exposing magical tricks. In 1996, he established a fund under his own name, the James Randi Foundation. At first, the size of the fund was 10 thousand US dollars ( personal contribution Randy himself), then many enthusiasts - people and organizations - added their contributions to the fund, and it grew to 1 million 112 thousand dollars.

The James Randi Foundation is, in fact, an award that they intend to give to anyone who clearly and unequivocally demonstrates any of the so-called parapsychological or psychic phenomena. Suitable: magic, clairvoyance, telepathy (mind reading), telekinesis (moving objects with the effort of thought), astrology, palmistry and all other types of divination, spiritualism (communication with dead people), levitation (flying without help technical means), surgical operations with bare hands and other phenomena that do not fit into the usual ideas of science and common sense. The main thing is that the demonstration carried out under the controlled conditions of a scientific experiment should be clear and undeniable.

Of course, there were many applicants for the award. Dowsers came to the Randy Foundation (who search underground for water with the help of vine), and soothsayers, and people who claimed that they had developed skin vision and that they could with eyes closed using fingers to read words and distinguish colors - there were no clairvoyants there. But none of them passed a strict test according to all the rules of scientific experimentation - they were all brought to clean water.

Moreover, by by and large all the mage applicants for the award, who were tested by Randy, were divided into two categories. The first is frank charlatans who wanted to fraudulently steal a million (they were cunning, cunning, peeping, in general, they were playing a dishonest game). And the second category is people who themselves sincerely believed that they had some kind of superpowers (which, as it turned out during the test, they actually did not have), i.e. these people were delusional about themselves.

As it turned out, there are quite a few such self-deceiving "witch doctors", so James Randi was forced to make an announcement something like this: neither theirs nor ours."

Hundreds of people a year fill out applications for the Randy Award, but things usually don’t go beyond preliminary tests, because the applicants for the award, like unsuccessful applicants, fail the tests - they, again, are quickly brought to clean water - they do not show their abilities, which they claimed.

Notable psychics they don't go to James Randi for easy money. Because, as some of them say, real psychic, like an angel, does not need to be checked. However, Randy himself claims that in fact they are simply afraid of exposing their foul play that they are playing. And besides, they, as a rule, do not really need money, because they make good money working on gullible townsfolk and participating in various television shows.

Felix Kirsanov

Somehow it suddenly turned out that there was nothing about this organization on this forum. While this fund is extremely popular on the Internet. Including as an integral part of the eternal debate on the topic of whether magic exists.
The following article serves to correct this misunderstanding. I will try to make a minimum of conclusions in it, focusing on the specifics of the activities of this fund.
So, let's begin.

Short description.

The foundation was founded back in 1996. The full name of the foundation sounds like "James Randi Educational Foundation" (which roughly translates as "James Randi Educational Foundation"), however, according to what is written on their website, their mission is "promoting critical thinking through reporting to the public and media with reliable information about the paranormal and supernatural ideas so prevalent in our society today." (). In principle, on the same page there is still a certain amount of text explaining that the foundation's goals really do not go beyond the fight against pseudoscience, the development of skepticism, etc.
Education here can only be attributed to the mention of scientific conferences, grants for educators and scholarships for students pursuing the same development of scientific skepticism and critical thinking. Whether they actually paid anyone for any of the above is unknown. However, on the site itself there is a dedicated to some research staff, "recognized by the foundation for their contribution to the development of skepticism and carry out original skeptical research with the support of the foundation." There are as many as 7 employees there (from the 96th year) ... you can read the details about their activities.
Scientific skepticism as such, I think, will not be analyzed at all. For this philosophical concept is an extremely ambiguous thing. This ambiguity is especially clearly illustrated by the fact that in the ranks of adherents of scientific skepticism, no, no, and believing people slip through (Martin Gardner, for example ... which can be read in English in the article "" on page 32). In short, you can’t figure it out with half a liter
Well, back to the fund.
He gained main fame for the promise of a prize for demonstrating paranormal abilities, which was established by James Randy even before the founding of the foundation during some kind of radio show, already in 1964 (at the time of creation - in the amount of a thousand dollars, then ten thousand, and since 2002 years - million). And the fact that despite the relative abundance of applications (650 before the foundation was established, and 360 between the foundation of the foundation in 1996 and 2005), it was never awarded to anyone. Well, without exception, all consideration of applications one way or another turn into a show by the author. The primary source of information set forth in this paragraph is none other than.
Actually, as you might guess, it is this show that is the reason why no one received the award. However, let's still analyze the features of receiving the award in more detail.

Randy Award for the Paranormal. Features of the conduct.

As mentioned earlier, Randy successfully turns each test of this award into a show. Thanks to this, the comrade regularly appears on American television ... and, of course, he also has one (though mostly filled with all sorts of lectures and other things).
You can see an example of a show with validation here:
It allows you to arrange a show from each check of the applicant and avoid the actual presentation of the award to James by well-written conditions of checks (you can read them in English, again,). Briefly, the description of these tricks is as follows:

  • The test results are evaluated exclusively by representatives of the fund without the obligatory involvement of any independent experts(The 4th paragraph of the rules ... in the previous version of the rules was quite unambiguous, but now they are very vague).
  • Before the main check, representatives of the fund can appoint any number of preliminary checks (also 4th paragraph). At the same time, the fund itself disposes of all the materials received during the inspections (3rd paragraph).
  • Representatives of the fund have the right to adjust the methods of conducting inspections (still the same 4th paragraph).
Well, as you understand, in this situation, the fund can guarantee that the candidate will fall asleep during the checks. For, under such conditions, it is not so difficult to make a test in such a way that the candidate would not pass it by any means. And, of course, this achieves maximum entertainment during checks.
Plus, the rules are updated from time to time. So, for example, the paragraph was removed from there, which spoke about the unambiguous involvement of third-party experts, being replaced by a paragraph on the protocols of inspections at the discretion of the Fund participants and a paragraph that third-party experts are involved by the Fund participants.
And, of course, in the conditions it means that the applicant, and not the foundation, bears all the costs of the checks.

Last news regarding the award.

Apparently, by now, the audience has already stopped eating Randy's show, so the foundation is desperately trying to attract attention again.
Namely, now, to apply, the applicant is required to attach the recommendation of some well-known scientist, an article about himself in a scientific publication and a video demonstrating his abilities. In short, now only famous comrades are suitable for applicants, and mere mortals, alas, by the cash register.
Plus, the foundation staff catches all sorts of well-known occult figures (such as the same Uri Geller) and tries to persuade them to be tested by them. Occult figures, the stump is clear, are aware of the conditions for passing, therefore they don’t beg ... Although I’ll look for details later, maybe they still managed to catch someone.

Foundation criticism.

Oddly enough, I did not come across so many critical materials about the fund. Whether it is of little interest to anyone (which is strange, because it should be unequivocally attractive to trolls who use it as a way of stuffing on the relevant resources; comrades who have curled up with them for verification and are offended by the methods of conducting it; fans of the fund itself and people who - they still want to get money from them, at least for criticism), or I just had no luck, or maybe just few people are interested in criticizing the critic ...
But, nevertheless, this criticism still exists. Below I will present a list of articles that seemed to me the most notable:

  • Translation of an article that is very interesting in that it describes the case when Randy himself, at the last stages of the agreement, decided to refuse to conduct inspections. However, judging by the article, the checks were offered much more global than Randy's usual shows.
  • An article by a certain Mark Komissarov from the USA, written in 2003. Although this article is highly subjective, as it was written by a mentor of one of the award applicants (especially in vain the author focuses on the suffering of his ward), it is still useful in that it provides a description of the passage of checks by people directly involved in these checks, describes the features of the work of the fund's employees , the very procedure for registering for applicants for the award and preparing for checks.
  • Also on the Internet you can stumble upon a compilation of translations of several foreign articles, entitled "". There, Randy, in addition to fraud with the prize fund and regularly changed rules for its delivery, is accused of pedophilia and other troubles. True, to me personally, the presentation seemed frankly slurred and in places very far-fetched (well, in places it was completely fantastic).
    Actually, so far, everything that I came across interesting on the fund. If I come across anything else interesting, I'll add it.