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                           James Randi

                          The January 2000 issue of Dog World magazine included an article on a possible sixth
                          sense in dogs, which discussed some of my research. In this article Randi was quoted as
                          saying that in relation to canine ESP, "We at the JREF [James Randi Educational
                          Foundation] have tested these claims. They fail." No details were given of these tests.
                          I emailed James Randi to ask for details of this JREF research. He did not reply. He
                          ignored a second request for information too.

                          I then asked members of the JREF Scientific Advisory Board to help me find out more
                          about this claim. They did indeed help by advising Randi to reply. In an email sent on
                          Februaury 6, 2000 he told me that the tests he referred to were not done at the JREF, but
                          took place "years ago" and were "informal". They involved two dogs belonging to a friend
                          of his that he observed over a two-week period. All records had been lost. He wrote: "I
                          overstated my case for doubting the reality of dog ESP based on the small amount of data
                          I obtained. It was rash and improper of me to do so."

                          Randi also claimed to have debunked one of my experiments with the dog Jaytee, a part
                          of which was shown on television. Jaytee went to the window to wait for his owner when she
                          set off to come home, but did not do so before she set off. In Dog World, Randi stated:
                          "Viewing the entire tape, we see that the dog responded to every car that drove by, and to
                          every person who walked by." This is simply not true, and Randi now admits that he has
                          never seen the tape.