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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. 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. An interest in James Randi and Penn and Teller brought me to the JREF forum long before I started posting on the SGU forum. It's a shithole, full of people who range from just JAQing off to out and out racists, as opposed to our one or two concern trolls who never have an opinion of their own to offer that we get here.

I think I have been warned once on this board in the years I have been there but multiple times there.This is a non-profit, tax-exempt, educational foundation under Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, incorporated in the State of Delaware. Effective 9/1/2015 the JREF has made major changes including converting to a grant making foundation and no longer accepting applications for the Million Dollar Prize from the general public. The foundation produced two audio podcasts, For Good Reason which was an interview program hosted by D. Post your questions about tourism, accommodation, transportation, work, nightlife, language schools, and other Japan-related practical matters. 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.

Easy-peasy must have been the original phrase (you'll probably hear The Artful Dodger say it in Oliver Twist), but I suppose people have added their own extra words that rhyme with easy over many years like 'easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy', or easy-peasy-japanese. J. Grothe assumed the position of president on January 1, 2010, [15] holding the position until his departure from the JREF was announced on September 1, 2014. These kind of things show the strange fascination that kids have with asia - it is very different from us so it must be bad or wrong. However, after "finding" the SGU Forum and interacting with the folks here, I quickly abandoned JREF. To date, no one has been able to demonstrate their claimed abilities under the testing conditions, all applicants either failing to demonstrate the claimed ability during the test or deviating from the foundation conditions for taking the test such that any apparent success was held invalid; the prize money remains unclaimed.In 2008 the astronomer Philip Plait became the new president of the JREF and Randi its board chairman.

My mum is chinese, my dad is Japanese, look at the state of me (when chinese is said, the corners of the eyes are pulled up, when japanese is said, pulled up, and when 'me' is said, one eye is pulled down and the other up. However, in 2015 the James Randi Educational Foundation said they will no longer accept applications directly from people claiming to have a paranormal power, but will offer the challenge to anyone who has passed a preliminary test that meets with their approval.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". 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). I just got the sense that the community was too big to really have the feel of a community that I like. I heard someone say this on a TV show and I wanted to know: Is it a common phrase used in English speaking countries? 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).