[Retric]

Individual experiments give false positives and false negatives all the time. Think about how you might film this using a fair coin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1uJD1O3L08 Hint 10 heads is only a 1/1024 chance but 1024 is not that rare. Now realise that 5 coin flips is a 1/32 chance and 1/20 is considered acceptable to publish...

Science is not based on a single experiment it's based around replication of experiments by different people at different times using slightly different methods. Parapsychology repeatedly fails this test to the point where there is a million dollar prize for anyone that can demonstrate anything in a controlled setting.

[jmcmichael]

The process to win Randi's prize is not science, it is public relations for the ideology of elimination materialism.

Science is the testing of a hypothesis by applying an instrumental injunction to reality, apprehending and analyzing the results, and sharing/verifying the results in with a community of experts who have also performed the same injunction (reproducibility).

Randi's process shares none of these characteristics with the scientific process. It is entertainment, a publicity stunt that has little to do with science other than to muddle the waters when discussing these topics.