[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.