The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) was established for the primary purpose of promoting critical thinking – that is, a skeptical approach where ideas are rejected for which supporting evidence is insufficient, subject to possible later revision. For many years, the JREF has offered a prize of one million US dollars to anyone who can demonstrate any supernatural, paranormal or otherwise extraordinary ability that cannot be explained by the known laws of nature.
It is important to note that testing is carried out by independent authorities on behalf of the JREF, not by the
[...] Continue Reading…
Dear Mr Krügel,
Over the last two years you have received a substantial amount of publicity in various South African and international media, including prominent SA newspapers such as The Sunday Times and the primetime investigative television programmes Carte Blanche and 3rd Degree. In most cases, such media exposure was centred on your claims about having developed a technology that allows you to locate a person by means of a hair cutting (variously, a DNA sample) of that person.
The media articles and you yourself have described in broad strokes this technology’s operation as novel, even revolutionary science. However, these
[...] Continue Reading…
Danie Krügel is a former South African police officer currently employed as Director (see p. 79), Protection Services and Occupational Health & Safety at Bloemfontein’s Central University of Technology. Mr Krügel claims to have invented a novel technology called a “Matter Orientation System” (MOS) for locating missing items and people, and he has featured in numerous newspaper articles and investigative TV programmes in SA such as 3rd Degree and Carte Blanche where his claimed ability has been naïvely highlighted, usually in connection with missing persons cases. The disappearances of Madeleine McCann and, more recently, Kerry Winter are among the more
[...] Continue Reading…
