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What's wrong with James Randi's million dollar challenge?
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Kent Hovind had a simular challenge. I don't know why people do this. It is just makes everyone look stupid.
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Kent Hovind's challenge was deliberately unwinnable though; regardless of the truth behind evolution. He asked for things not covered by evolution, and for things not required by any form of scientific investigation. Plus HE selected the judges (who would always be anonymous) and HE deemed any submissions worthy of "their" time.
In short, there's no comparison!
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Randi's paranormal challenge is completely different in that Hovind basically wanted claimants to recreate the Universe in a lab whereas Randi's is pretty simple - claim you can do X and then demonstrate X.
He was right to reject the breatharians for the same reason he's right to reject people who claim they can spend half-an-hour under water or have their arm chopped off and that it will grow back. Some claims are just so ludicrous they're not worth entertaining.
Breatharians are also more problematic for testing than someone who claims a superpower-like ability like teleportation or levitation. Both of those can be tested in a controlled environment in a pretty short amount of time. It could take weeks for a breatharian to either give up or die in the process of being tested.
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