• Florida Jewish Journal | Sun-Sentinal, February 29, 2012
  Synagogue series invites controversy
  At the most recent meeting of the Controversial Issues Series, James Randi, stage magician, scientific skeptic and founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation was invited to share his thoughts on God, religion and the legacy of Christopher Hitchens.

• Daily Maverick, February 27, 2012
  Fortune doesn't favour the clairvoyant
  Bavuma and family shouldn’t weep though, because if the Peddie mystic’s powers are genuine, she stands an excellent chance of winning about R7.68-million in the James Randi Educational Foundation One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge.

• The Documentary Blog, February 28, 2012
  "An Honest Liar" work-in-progress trailer
  I have high expectations as James Randi is a brilliant character and deserves a brilliant film.

• Token Skeptic, March 2, 2012 
  Booklaunch Of The Skeptical Blog Anthology – And Skeps In The City Gameshow!
  The booklaunch is for The Skeptical Blog Anthology, that has garnered an entry on the Scientific American site and the James Randi Educational Foundation Swift blog.

You’ve done it again just a couple of days ago, with your favorite professor garnering yet another prize for his promotion of the attractive notion known as “facilitated communication” – “FC” – the transparently pseudoscientific farce whereby autistic children seem to be in communication with the world outside their unfortunately limited comprehension. I’m sure that Douglas Biklen and his staff are receiving enthusiastic kudos following the announcement that the UNESCO/Emir Jaber al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah Prize – US$40,000 – has been awarded him by the Kuwaiti Government, “for the positive impact of his work on people with intellectual disabilities.”

This United Nations prize was awarded to Mr. Biklen because of his advocacy of FC, which has been very thoroughly debunked as wishful thinking, bad science, and nonsense via a 1993 TV special on PBS “Frontline” as well as through my personal investigation and experience with the University of Wisconsin-Madison project using this manipulative deception, the year before in 1992. My readers may wish to visit here to read this incredible news story. James T. Todd, Ph.D., at Eastern Michigan University, notified me of this latest promotion of nonsense, expressing his dismay, and I wrote to him:  

We are all going to die. Before you panic, please stop and consider that there's probably nothing you can do about it. Wait, sorry. That wasn't very reassuring, was it? Well, how about this: you may or may not see your inevitable death coming. Feel better? No?

Look, I'm no good at breaking bad news to people. And even if I were, there's really no way to sugar coat this. Some people are working hard to put a stop to the grim reaper's oncoming train (before you complain about this mixed metaphor, you should know that the down economy has forced the grim reaper to take part-time work as a train conductor), but in the meantime, scores of us drop dead every day.

SANE Vax adopts Dr. Hanan Polansky’s “microcompetition” as its own. Hilarity ensues. (David Gorski) http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/sane-vax-microcompetition/ After DNA fragments were reportedly discovered in HPV vaccine, anti-vaccine groups raised irrational alarms. Now they are claiming that Dr. Polansky’s hypothesis about microcompetition (derived with the help of his invention, Computer Intuition!) supports their fears. It doesn’t: Dr. Gorski explains why.