Mel Mermelstein is one of the only people to ever successfully take a bogus "I'll pay you to prove me wrong" challenge and get his money - only because he sued the IHR, winning both the "challenge" and additional damages. An absolute hero in every sense of the word.
https://twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/1488688380456337408
Such "I'll pay you to prove me wrong" challenges are a hallmark of cranks. They dangle big money to prove things that have already been proven, like evolution or the Holocaust happening. But the "proof" is judged by the crank. And weirdly, they always win. Except this time.
in 2017, RFK Jr. and Robert De Niro teamed up to offer $100,000 to anyone who could "prove vaccines are safe." Well, vaccines are safe, so that's easy money, right?
To my knowledge, they never paid a dime out. But they got plenty of PR for their bogus stunt.
To my knowledge, they never paid a dime out. But they got plenty of PR for their bogus stunt.
But no bogus challenge will ever top the $11 *trillion* offered in 2008 by the Turkish creationist and cult leader Adnan Oktar for proof that single transitional fossil exists, thereby proving evolution is real. Oktar is spending the next thousand years in prison for sex crimes.
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