On April 1st, the annual “Pigasus” awards were announced for the most inane people and events in the paranormal world. This year’s awards went to:
for the scientist who said or did the silliest thing related to the supernatural, paranormal or occult - Dr. Gary E. Schwartz of the University of Arizona
for the organization that supported the most useless study of a supernatural, paranormal or occult claim - Paris-la Sorbonne, the seat of the faculty of Arts & Letters at the University of Paris
for the media outlet that reported as fact the most outrageous supernatural, paranormal or occult claim - CNN
for the “psychic” performer who fooled the greatest number of people with the least talent - John Edward
Let’s give em all a big hand!
You can read the details here, towards the bottom:
These rewards are very anti-climactic by nature. After all, any psychic would surely know that their enemy was bestowing an award on them well before it actually happened.
John Edward did make an acceptance speach:
"I would like to thank someone over in this area, who has a “B” that passed on…a Brian…or maybe a Beatrice…definitley a “B”…
‘You can thank me, John…I had a Boxer that passed on…my uncle must be with my pet Boxer’
“Yes…I see an older man, and the boxer is licking him”
‘Oh, that dog loved to lick people…quite unique like that…that must be him’
“Yes, he is licking him in the upper region…in here somewhere…I’m sensing something in the chest…maybe from an injury”
‘Oh, my unlce died from a head injury suffered in a car accident, but he was so banged up…head, chest legs…’
Gary Schwartz doesn’t surprise me as a winner, it does surpirse me that all his woowoo followers act as if he should be on a throne. THe man does not know science works.
CNN did surprise me, I was unaware that they spent the better par tof a day on the “demon in the WTC fire” nonsense.
The French University was a surpirse. Hadn’t heard of that woman’s thesis. :rolleyes:
John Edward. No surprise at all. Now everyone is talking to the dead. I liek how Sylvia Brown got exposed as a liar, too.
Go Randi! Go Randi! Common sense, critical thinking, and the scientific method is all you really need in this world.
Category #2, for the organization that supported the most useless study of a supernatural, paranormal or occult claim, goes overseas this year to the French university, Paris-la Sorbonne, the seat of the faculty of Arts & Letters at the University of Paris. This prestigious center of learning awarded a doctorate in Sociology to Élizabeth Teissier after she delivered to them a 900-page thesis, a plea for the validity of astrology. Needless to say, this sort of scandal had never happened before in the 742-year history of the university. It is said that former graduates of the world-famous Sorbonne are still heard noisily spinning in their graves, tout malades qu’ils sont.
Once, just ONCE, I’m waiting to hear John Edward say, “Yes… I feel your mother’s spirit… she’s burning in Hell… she says she never loved you, and wishes you’d never been born…”
I mean, not EVERYBODY in the next world can be nice, CAN they?
Wait a minute. In 742 years, no one at the Sorbonne wrote a paper on astrology? When, until 4-500 years ago, or even more recently than that, astrology was science?
However, genie, it says that the Sorbonne is the faculty of arts and letters, so back when astrology was considered a science, anything written on the subject would have been in the alchemy department.
Well maybe if she wrote a thesis on the sociology of why people believe in astrology, because there are a significant number of people that do. But to argue that it’s true. How daft.
