Anyone know if Randi has a headache?

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My Randi voodoo doll arrived today, and the very first thing I did was stick all three pins into his skull. If he's feeling even the slightest throb*, the million bucks is mine.

* Or, if he gets a headache next week, or hears someone else mention they have or once had a headache, or any ache experience in the head (e.g. tooth) or any part of the body directly or indirectly connected to the head (e.g. back, foot). On the chance that the insertion of pins actually has a curative effect, the complete opposite of my previous statement will also be sufficient proof to award me the million.
 
As I am about to stick some pins in I would put it to you that there is an equal likelyhood of the effect traversing the time stream in a non-linier fashion and causing any current headache in Randi which may be occuring or may have occured at any point since birth.
 
On QI (a quiz show on the BBC hosted by Stephen Fry which combines arcane knowledge with comedy) this week, it was alleged that voodoo has nothing to do with sticking pins in people to cause them pain. Instead, the programme claimed that this was a practice in European Witchcraft which had been applied to voodoo in an attempt to discredit it.

The programme claimed that there are dolls in voodoo into which pegs are slotted but that this was to effect healing
 
But who would wish to discredit a practice which claims to animate the dead for use as slaves, and why? A witchcraft spin-doctor?

I can see the next hour is going to be spent looking into this, and I was so hoping to walk the dog in the pouring rain.
 
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