breatharianism

I get why JREF doesn't want to put claimants at risk, but would not a simple before and after weight measurement suffice? By after, it could be waiting a few days then comparing to expected weight loss. Minimal danger for two days with no food.

http://www.thelocal.ch/3196/20120425/ So, the usual suspects, I wonder what's the harm?

Human fotosintesis: Sunlight +Melanin + water = new kind of solar cell? A friend of mine told me that a Mexican scientist with the name "Arturo Solís Herrera" have found proof of "human fotosintesis" :rolleyes: so I started looking for something like that on Google... And I found a story...

Randi offers the challenge to the Indian breatharian, May 13, 2010: http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/986-james-randi-speaks-powered-by-sunlight-.html Hardly an exciting change, but at least the challenge is alive and not in total hibernation.

It wont let me post links yet, so i cant embed the video directly. perhaps an older account can post the embed for me in a reply. Link youtube.com/watch?v=FGF7EY2Ucm8 Here's the text from the video page. Of course when the media reports on something like this, they usually shy away when it...

http://news.uk.msn.com/world/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=153216380&ocid=today This is absolutely impossible. First off, as precedent, Bobby sands only lasted ~ a month in the hunger strikes in the Maze. Second, food and water are necessary for anybody to live.

First, they said you could live on just air alone. Now, they've revised that -- you can live on sunlight alone. Absorbed through the eyes. Yes, that's right: THEY ADVOCATE STARING DIRECTLY INTO THE SUN (link). They also claim that looking directly into the sun doesn't cause damage to your...

Hi, I've recently been talking to a group known as breatharians. They claim to be able to survive without consuming food. If you thought homeopaths or christians were strange, just check out some of their twisted beliefs in this interview with one of the leaders called Wiley Brookes. Has anyone...

I've been interested in James Randi's take on the paranormal ever since I was a kid and can remember his old TV show (sadly absent from the UK TV schedules these days). Whilst I value the skeptical perspective as much as any that champions a 'paranormal' cause (if such a thing exists!), I am a...