The accolade is called the ‘Pigasus Award’ and in 2007 one of its recipients was Rupert Sheldrake for his work on telephone telepathy through morphic resonance.

After the interview was published, Rupert wrote a letter to The Skeptic asking why Chris French did not challenge Randi on Rupert’s Pigasus Award, when, in fact, Chris has and is working on research with Rupert on this very phenomena.  Rupert’s letter also contained criticism levelled at Randi for a document that was used in a TAM3 workshop, which stated that becoming an expert media sceptic was as easy as “tell[ing] people you’re an expert. After you do that, all you have to do is maintain appearances and not give them a reason to believe you’re not.”

In the spirit of fostering open debate and discourse, we’ve given Randi the opportunity to reply to Rupert’s letter.  Chris French has also written a reply to the original letter.  All three letters can be viewed here.

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