#Skeptic

People (21)

• Amnon Rubinstein Amnon Rubinstein was a prominent Israeli legal scholar, politician, and television talk show host.
• Carl Sagan Carl Sagan (1934–1996) was a renowned American cosmologist, astronomer, planetary scientist, and author.
• Eduard Naumov Naumov's claims, along with other 'wild stories' from Soviet psi research, were later featured in the 1970 book Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder.
• Genady Sergeyev Genady Sergeyev was a Soviet military doctor who oversaw experiments with the renowned psychic Ninel Kulagina.
• George Lawrence George Lawrence was an ARPA project manager who, along with two civilian psychologists, Robert Van de Castle and Ray Hyman, traveled to SRI to test Uri Geller's purported psychic abilities.
• Gertrude Schmeidler Gertrude Schmeidler was an experimental psychologist with a PhD from Harvard University.
• J. B. Rhine American botanist who founded the parapsychology lab at Duke University and is considered a father of modern parapsychology.
• James Randi James Randi (1928–2020), known as 'The Amazing Randi,' was a Canadian-American stage magician, escape artist, and a prominent scientific skeptic.
• John L. Wilhelm Wilhelm's exposé centered on the U.S.
• Leon Jaroff Leon Jaroff was a senior editor at Time magazine.
• Louis Andre Louis Andre was an analyst with the DIA who worked on the case of William Richard Higgins, a Marine Lieutenant Colonel abducted in Lebanon in 1988.
• Martin Gardner Martin Gardner (1914–2010) was an American science writer and a key figure in jump-starting the modern scientific skepticism movement.
• Milbourne Christopher Milbourne Christopher was a renowned American stage magician and author.
• Ninel Kulagina Ninel Kulagina (1926–1990), also known as Nina Kulagina, was a celebrated Soviet psychic and a decorated World War II hero, having served as a front-line soldier and tank radio operator for the Red Army.
• Paul Kurtz Paul Kurtz (1925–2012) was an American philosopher and a prominent figure in the skeptical movement.
• Ray Hyman Ray Hyman is a University of Oregon psychologist and scientific skeptic who evaluated Uri Geller for DARPA in 1973, criticized SRI remote viewing methodology throughout the 1970s-80s, and wrote the skeptical half of the 1995 AIR evaluation of STAR GATE, concluding that methodological flaws precluded accepting the data as evidence for remote viewing.
• Richard Kennett Richard Kennett was a CIA analyst in the Office of Scientific Intelligence in the early 1970s.
• Robert Lucky He eventually conducted some of his own informal remote viewing experiments and became convinced of its reality, stating, 'Psychic stuff is really not much more far-fetched than some of the physics behind the laser.' His decision to publish the paper in a respected scientific journal contributed to
• Stefan Kanfer Stefan Kanfer was a reporter for Time magazine.
• Steven Shaw Steven Shaw was one of two young magicians, along with Michael Edwards, who participated in James Randi's hoax against the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research at Washington University in 1983.
• Walter Levy Walter Levy was an assistant to J.