It’s always been a simple, direct, matter: do what you claim you can do of a paranormal nature, and walk away with the prize. Those who believe they have mystic powers now have two full years to apply…

For more than two decades, James Randi has been the country’s skeptic-in-chief, aiming his arrow of rationalism at psychics and faith healers, mediums and mentalists. He finds his targets so preposterous and those falling for them so desperate that he has become obsessed.

A Master of Wine student stands to win US$1m if his dissertation proves magnetic wine-improving devices work as claimed.

Skeptic: Principles not based on science 'nonsense'

U.S. News & World Report, Aug. 26, 2002