Bent Spoon Award

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 award is named as allusion to the practice of spoon bending by supposed psychics.

Australian Skeptics facetiously describes the trophy as a piece of gopher wood supposedly from the Noah’s Ark, upon which is affixed a spoon that was rumoured to have been used at the Last Supper. The spoon was bent by energies unknown to science and was gold-plated through an Atlantean process. Although established in 1982 and first awarded in 1983, 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.

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

The New Zealand Skeptics have a similar Bent Spoon Award.

The award has always been announced at Australian Skeptics' annual convention. Prior to 1989, when the convention was held over Easter weekend, the award covered activity occurring during the calendar year prior to the convention, and the year designation reflected when the winner conducted his or her activities. At the 1989 convention, the organisation moved its conventions to later in the year and changed the award period to cover the time between conventions. Therefore, there was no 1989 award, and since that time the year designation has reflected the year in which the award was announced.

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