Re: Stereophile still under Randi's radar


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> <Stereophile_Editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Chevdo wrote:
>>> In article <1130073155.370842.212860@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>> Stereophile_Editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>>> >What, though Randi hasn't actually invited me to take part in the
>>> >challenge, you feel I should rush forward anyway, saying that I
>>> >will accept a challenge to take part in a test auditioning products
>>> >I haven't heard? A test, BTW, organized by someone who has already
>>> >demonstrated his bad faith and antipathy toward me personally on his
>>> >website by misrepresenting what I have said and written, fabricating
>>> >quotes that were presented as being by me, confusing me with other
>>> >reviewers and editors, etc etc? Sure, why not?
>>>
>>> Mr. Randi requested that I post this reply to your lies about his
>>> challenge to you...
>>
>> What lies? I was correct about his misrepresentations, and he admitted
>> making the mistakes to which I referred above on his website. And I
>> was correct that while he had issued the Million-dollar challenge to
>> a number of audio writers, he ahd not done so to me or to Stereophile.
>>
>>> "If John Atkinson - or anyone at Stereophile Magazine - can show that
>>> the questioned goods they endorsed in the pages of Stereophile
>>> actually work as advertised, Mr. Atkinson, or any other person at
>>> Stereophile, or Stereophile Magazine itself, or ANY OTHER PERSON
>>> IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE - including those who offer the device(s) for
>>> sale - can and will win the million-dollar challenge as offered by
>>> the James Randi Educational Foundation at
>>> www.randi.org/research/index.html."
>>
>> And he _has_ apparently done so, using you, "Chevdo," as his agent.
>> Well done. But please note that that fact that Randi _has_ now issued
>> the challenge to me can't be used retroactively to prove that I
>> was lying earlier about his not having done so. The arrow of time is
>> _so_ inconvenient when it flows only in one direction, eh.
>>
>>> I predict that John Atkinson - and all of the inventors/vendors of the
>>> device(s) - will choose to ignore, as always, this attractive offer.
>>> This, because they know full well that the device(s) cannot and would
>>> not, pass simple, direct, definitive, tests...
>>
>> I cannot speak for the vendors of the devices in question, but I most
>> certainly will turn down Mr. Randi's offer, "Chevdo." Randi has already
>> lied to me and publicly misrepresented what I am supposed to have said
>> or written, yet _now_ he wants me to _trust_ his integrity? Yeah,
>> right!
>> The guy is just an old carnie, looking for free publicity. In my
>> opinion.
>>
>> John Atkinson
>> Editor, Stereophile
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>
> I could use a million dollars about now. If I thought I could tell when a
> Tice clock or a Shakti stone was in use, I would be contacting Randi and
> doing my level best to set up the test. I would accept the challenge
> publicly so that Randi couldn't back out without suffering significant
> loss of face. I would certainly not be worrying about past lies by Randi;
> I would not be trying to find excuses not to meet the challenge. Heavens
> no. I'd be concentrating all my efforts on winning a million dollars.
>
> If somebody's going to back out or have his bluff called, it's not going
> to be me. I need the million!
>
>

EXACTLY who's million dollars is this?
Does the million really exist?
Sorry for being so 'skeptical'!


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