Bent Spoon Award

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The Bent Spoon Award is an award given by Australian Skeptics, "presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle". The name of the award is a reference to the spoon bending of Uri Geller. Although awarded yearly since 1982, only one copy of the trophy exists, as "anyone wishing to acquire the trophy must remove it from our keeping by paranormal means," and no winner has yet overcome this obstacle. Winners are notified by telepathy.

The winner should either be an Australian or have carried out their activities in Australia.

[edit] List of winners

(2005) Second Opinion
(2004) The New Inventors
(2003) The Complementary Healthcare Council
(2002) Gentle Heal Pty Ltd
(2001) The Lutec "Free Energy Generator"
(2000) Jasmuheen
(1999) Mike Willessee
(1998) Southern Cross University
(1997) Dr. Viera Scheibner
(1996) Marlo Morgan
(1995) (Not referenced)
(1994) Commonwealth Attorney General's Office
(1993) Tonight Live on Channel 7
(1992) Allen S. Roberts - fundamentalist pastor who stated he visited the site of Noah's Ark
(1991) Women's Day magazine
(1990) Mafu (Penny Torres Rubin) - a channeled ancient entity
(1989) (None awarded)
(1988) Diane McCann - prominent new age proponent, proclaimed the City of Churches was the location of part of Atlantis.
(1987) Anne Dankbaar - Adelaide psychic
(1986) Peter Brock - promoted an energy polariser
(1985) Rev. Willard Fuller - psychic dentist
(1984) Karen Hunt - psychic archaeologist
(1983) Dennis Hassell - Melbourne mystic
(1982) Tom Wards - psychic