mat@hou5d.UUCP (M Terribile) (10/28/83)
Many kinds of ``peudoscience'' bombard us daily. We see bizzarre claims made in supermarket tabloids. We read about astrology. We watch movies about ghosts and poltergiests and psychotelekinesis and ... We are being asked to admit ``creation science'' into our schools. Psychics claim to have helped police find bodies. Reliable experimenters report that there are people who can apparently project energies and affect objects in ways that are not possible under natural law. There is a publication devoted to investigating these things, a few at a time, and debunking them if debunking is indeed in order. It usually is; since natural law has been discovered by the works of many people working almost independently, there are few holes of the sort that pseodoscientists would like to have to drive their bandwagons through. The magazine is The Skeptical Enquirer. It is published quarterly by the Committe for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. It costs $16.50 a year (a bundle, but worth it) and subscription requests should be sent to The Skeptical Enquirer, Box 229, Central Park Station, Buffalo NY 14215. Members of CSICOP include James Randi, Martin Gardener, Philip Klass, W. V. Quine, B. F. Skinner, and Carl Sagan. This notice is a recomendation made by me and me alone. I have no connection with CSICOP except my subscription. (Of course, with more subscribers, the price might go down ...) This recommendation may or mayh not reflect the views of my employers or anyone else. Mark Terribile hou5e!mat