"On the other hand, since neither B nor J are at all interested in my million-dollar prize, I believe that the 
  time has come to offer it to you by default . . .  If, by the 11th day of August, three weeks from now, 
 Benveniste and Josephson have not agreed with Bob Park on a protocol for an APS-sponsored test, I will accept your bid to do a preliminary test, using the "yeast" method, providing of course that it is an appropriate test of the homeopathic effect. Wed, 21 Jul 1999 18:45:07 -0400

Randi writes: 

"I'm told that Benneth is planning on going to Goldman Sachs to get information on the account.  Yeah, I'm sure that they're going to hand out information on a million-dollar account.  What a dreamer the man is.  He knows precisely how to get an official statement on the account, written by Goldman Sachs at my request.  But he won't do that..."

Nobel Laureate Brian Josephson writes to James Randi:

I have a suggestion for you, however, namely that you try out the claims 
of John Benneth, since he at least appears eager to submit his method to a 
test at this time; indeed, I am very surprised that you have not already 
done this.

                              See the Aug. 11, 2000 correspondence
 

I have repeatedly asked Randi for a test date and place, and for him 
to sign his Challenge and return my application, all of which he has 
failed to do. His reasoning for this has been that he won't schedule a 
test prior to there being an agreed upon protocol, which he now refuses 
to discuss with me, and he has implied that there can be no protocol
until there has been a preliminary test, which he refuses to schedule. 

Last week, Gary Schwartz, a clinical psychologist and professor of 
psychiatry who interviewed me in Tucson at the Human Energy Systems Lab 
on November 2, 1999, met with Randi and Andrew Harter in Florida, and 
reports to me that Randi is still insisting that I'm insane. 

     Schwartz claims Randi is now throwing around generalizations about 
me and others. Schwartz implies that his actions appear to be pretty 
sad. 

Click here to see the letter, and the e-mail addresses of others it was sent to.  Click here to see the discussion that took place between Syd Baumel, John Benneth, "Happy Dog" and others, about the contents of the letter.

The big question discussed here is whether Randi's decision to abandon the testing of John Benneth was justified, and if, in fact, John Benneth had a chance, at one time, to actually be tested by JREF/Randi -- a chance he allegedly threw away.