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Andrew A. Skolnick

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Science and Medical Journalist

Debunking the Paranormal

"Pigasus" Proud to be one of the pledgers of the more than $1.1 million prize that can be claimed by anyone able to prove the existence of any paranormal phenomenon. For more information visit the James Randi Educational Foundation Web Site and check out the latest recipients of the pigstigious Pigasus Award! New! Spoof of Victor Zammit's kook web site on communicating with the once-but-no-longer living: http://www.victorzammit.com/ Special 3 1/2-minute radio report on Jacque Benveniste's Discredited Homeopathy Research Featuring interviews with Dr. Jacque Benveniste, Dr. John Maddox, Dr. Walter Stewart, and James Randi Produced by Andrew Skolnick for American Medical Radio News Broadcast August 1988 The Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health (CSSMH). The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine (SRAM). The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice (SRMHP). Stephen Barrett's Alternative Medicine - A Skeptical Look Web Site. Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy web site. Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal CSICOP's excellent list of links to resources for skeptical inquirers. The Skeptical Inquirer Index for Skeptical Inquirer Robert Todd Carroll's The Skeptic's Dictionary The Skeptics Society Jim Lippard's Skeptical Page SIMPOS site: The Foundation in The Netherlands for Information on Social Problems and Occult Tendencies. Hey, Dufus, did you ever stop to think why gambling casinos bar card counters, but they never bar psychics? The Left Hemisphere Urban Legends The Straight Dope Archives Bob McCoy's Museum of Questionable Medical Devices Chicago Tribune religion column on how Andrew Skolnick exposed faith healers Peter Popoff and W. V. Grant. Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg -- WGN Radio's leading, most intelligent evening talk show in the Midwest. Hear the "Indubitable Duarfa" Perform "100% Accurate" Psychic Readings Over the Phone! From a May 6, 1986 broadcast of WGN Radio's Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg show Trying to snatch folly from the minds of those who are victimized by it is often like trying to snatch a chicken bone from a dog. -- Isaac Asimov Hear about the Only Psychics Approved by the U.S. Government! As advertised on WGN TV The American Association of Professional [real] Psychics "Each and every one of our psychics is guaranteed authentic." Cults and Other Strange Phenomena The International Trepanation Advocacy Group - Expand your consciousness by opening your mind! How TM Saved Texas: In September 1988, the TM movement issued this crackpot news release claiming that TM Yogic Flyers saved the state of Texas from devastating Hurricane Gilbert. The "Junkyard Dog" Web Site: A collection of rants and strident apologetics from Transcendental Meditation's leading newsgroup defender, Judy Stein. Page one of Deepak Chopra's two-page letter, in which he explains why people "need" to buy Maharishi Amrit Kalash - the TM remedy that he described as "pure knowledge pressed into material form" that "forges the link between mind and body at the critical junction points everywhere in the physiology." Followers who took Chopra's advice pay nearly $900 a year for just this one TM remedy. Page two of the letter. Cult Information Service, Inc. (resources on destructive cults) Trancenet Home Page (resources on cults). 'Shameless Mind' (Trancenet's page on Deepak Chopra) Meditation Information Network. Don Krieger's Transcendental Meditation site Mirror of the entire Heaven's Gate Cult's web site. American Family Foundation, information on cults and their methods of psychological manipulation. An eye-opening account of how a Transcendental Meditation attorney threatened Oncology Times with a libel suit if it didn't publish a 3000-word article touting TM's trademark brand of medicine. Maharishi Ayur-Veda: guru's marketing scheme promises the world eternal 'perfect health', JAMA, October 2, 1991; vol.266: 1741-1750. Caught in Deceit: TM's leading researcher Dr. Hari Sharma lies about his funding. The Concise History of 4000 Years of Medicine But it's all natural!...

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