{"id":1414,"date":"2013-04-02T20:19:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T03:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2013-04-02T20:19:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T03:19:38","slug":"jref-2013-pigasus-awards-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/2013\/04\/02\/jref-2013-pigasus-awards-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"JREF 2013 Pigasus Awards Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/files\/2013\/04\/pigasus1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1415\" title=\"Behold, the Pigasus\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/files\/2013\/04\/pigasus1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a>James Randi has announced this year&#8217;s winners. The Pigasus awards highlight some of the worst people in our country each year. Professional frauds whose endeavors not only undermine critical &amp; rational thought, but that also prey upon the vulnerable. The cost is sometimes vast amounts of money, and sometimes human life and suffering as people fail to get proper medical treatment in lieu of a sham cure or use a product that harms them physically or emotionally. Sometimes I think there ought to be a law&#8230; but on to this years winners. Watch the video below where Randi lists the offences or read the full JREF article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randi.org\/site\/index.php\/jref-news\/2074-jrefs-pigasus-awards-honors-dubious-peddlers-of-woo.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/files\/2013\/04\/pigasus2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1416\" title=\"Pigasus 2013 winners\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/files\/2013\/04\/pigasus2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/files\/2013\/04\/pigasus2.jpg 534w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/files\/2013\/04\/pigasus2-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>James Randi &#8220;presenting&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2013 Pigasus Awards Announcement\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iigL-QhdKXg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Randi has announced this year&#8217;s winners. The Pigasus awards highlight some of the worst people in our country each&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criticalthinking","category-skeptic-ink-news-and-report","category-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}