I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.

Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). The JREF sponsors The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge offering a prize of US$1000000 to eligible applicants who can demonstrate evidence of any paranormal supernatural or occult power or event under test conditions agreed to by both parties. James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7 1928) is a Canadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic best known for his challenges to paranormal claims and pseudoscience.