Pigasus Award - Categories

Categories

Flim-Flam! specifies the four categories under which winners of the Uri may fall:

  1. To the scientist who said or did the silliest thing relating to parapsychology in the preceding twelve months.
  2. To the funding organization that supports the most useless parapsychological study during the year.
  3. To the media outlet that reported as fact the most outrageous paranormal claim.
  4. To the "psychic" performer who fools the greatest number of people with the least effort in that twelve-month period.

(Randi 1982, p. 327)

The 2003 Pigasus awards featured only categories 1 and 4. The 2005 awards added a fifth category "for the most persistent refusal to face reality".

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