Posted on 07/20/2009 11:00:21 PM PDT by JoeProBono
You just can't keep a good hoaxer down. Joe Rudy and Chris Russo, the guys who got busted for a Morristown-area UFO hoax over the winter, are promoting James Randi's longstanding $1 million offer to anyone who can prove anything paranormal or supernatural. You can contact these gentlemen at: jamesrandichallenge@gmail.com.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Joe Rudy and Chris Russo, the UFO hoaxers from Morris County, with a foreign visitor. The trio have an offer you might refuse
Salesman Chris Russo of Morris Plains and science teacher Joe Rudy of Chester tied flares onto helium balloons and launched them in a nearby field on the border of Morris Plains and Hanover
"If there is a single word to describe this ... it is in essence 'stupidity'," Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said at a press conference in Morristown"
I’ve always had mixed feelings about James Randi. On the one hand I applaud the fact that he has debunked many “psychics” and so in the process saved a lot of gullible people from themselves. On the other hand he’s a committed atheist and I believe he’s hostile to religion.
Still if I had to choose a world with or without James Randi in it I would still wish him to be here.
That’s just wrong. :)
He can also be wrong. Like other professional skeptics, he HAS to be right EVERY time or the basis for his position collapses.
I watched him monitor an Australian dowsing competition some years ago (he was a non-believer). The field was set up in two parts - one for water and one for precious metals. The guys dowsing for water had something like a 70% hit ratio while the metals boys bombed at around 10-20%. Instead of saying that perhaps there WAS something to water dowsing he lumped the two percentages together and said the low-hit ratio (35=45%) proved dowsing was a fraud.
You just can't keep a good hoaxer down. Joe Rudy and Chris Russo, the guys who got busted for a Morristown-area UFO hoax over the winter, are promoting James Randi's longstanding $1 million offer to anyone who can prove anything paranormal or supernatural.Associates of James Randi? Well, they *do* look a little swishy.
I'm not calling it proof, but I sure would like to hear a rational explanation for this police video, which I first saw on one of those cable reality shows (I think it was America's Wildest Police Chases).
The bad guy went further left, probably hit a gate or the fence between posts or even a non-fenced part, the cops hit a post.
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