CSI Fellows and Staff
At the Center for Inquiry/TRANSNATIONAL
An International Organization
- Edward Tabash, Chairman
- Ronald A. Lindsay, President and CEO
- Barry Karr, Executive Director
- Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow
- Massimo Polidoro, Research Fellow
- Richard Wiseman, Research Fellow
Fellows
- James E. Alcock* psychologist, York Univ., Toronto
- Marcia Angell MD, former editor-in-chief, New England Journal of Medicine
- Kimball Atwood IV MD, physician, author, Newton, MA
- Stephen Barrett MD, psychiatrist, author, consumer advocate, Allentown, PA
- Willem Betz MD, professor of medicine, Univ. of Brussels
- Irving Biederman psychologist, Univ. of Southern CA
- Sandra Blakeslee science writer; author; New York Times science correspondent
- Susan Blackmore visiting lecturer, Univ. of the West of England, Bristol
- Mark Boslough physicist, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Henri Broch physicist, Univ. of Nice, France
- Jan Harold Brunvand folklorist, professor emeritus of English, Univ. of Utah
- Mario Bunge philosopher, McGill Univ., Montreal
- Robert T. Carroll emeritus professor of philosophy, Sacramento City College, writer
- Sean B. Carroll molecular geneticist, vice president for science education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Madison, WI
- Thomas R. Casten energy expert; founder and chairman, Recycled Energy Development, Westmont, IL
- John R. Cole anthropologist, editor, National Center for Science Education
- K.C. Cole science writer, author, professor, Univ. of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism
- Frederick Crews literary and cultural critic, professor emeritus of English, Univ. of CA, Berkeley
- Richard Dawkins zoologist, Oxford Univ.
- Geoffrey Dean technical editor, Perth, Australia
- Cornelis de Jager professor of astrophysics, Univ. of Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Daniel C. Dennett Univ. professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, director of Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts Univ.
- Ann Druyan writer and producer; CEO, Cosmos Studios, Ithaca, NY
- Sanal Edamaruku president, Indian Rationalist Association and Rationalist International
- Edzard Ernst professor, Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, Exeter, UK
- Kenneth Feder professor of anthropology, Central Connecticut State Univ.
- Barbara Forrest professor of philosophy, SE Louisiana Univ.
- Andrew Fraknoi astronomer, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA
- Kendrick Frazier* science writer, editor, Skeptical Inquirer
- Christopher C. French professor, department of psychology, and head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Goldsmiths College, Univ. of London
- Yves Galifret executive secretary, l’Union Rationaliste
- Luigi Garlaschelli chemist, Università di Pavia (Italy), research fellow of CICAP, the Italian skeptics group
- Maryanne Garry professor, School of Psychology, Victoria Univ. of Wellington, New Zealand
- Murray Gell-Mann professor of physics, Santa Fe Institute; Nobel laureate
- Thomas Gilovich psychologist, Cornell Univ.
- David H. Gorski cancer surgeon and researcher at Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and chief of breast surgery section, Wayne State University School of Medicine
- Wendy M. Grossman writer; founder and first editor, The Skeptic magazine (UK)
- Susan Haack Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, professor of philosophy and professor of Law, Univ. of Miami
- Harriet Hall MD, family physician, investigator, Puyallup, WA
- C.E.M. Hansel psychologist, Univ. of Wales
- David J. Helfand professor of astronomy, Columbia Univ.
- Terence M. Hines prof. of psychology, Pace Univ., Pleasantville, NY
- Douglas R. Hofstadter professor of human understanding and cognitive science, Indiana Univ.
- Gerald Holton Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and professor of history of science, Harvard Univ.
- Ray Hyman* psychologist, Univ. of Oregon
- Stuart D. Jordan NASA astrophysicist emeritus, science advisor to Center for Inquiry Office of Public Policy, Washington, D.C.
- Barry Karr executive director, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Amherst, New York
- Lawrence M. Krauss foundation professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Dept.; director, Origins Initiative, Arizona State Univ.
- Harry Kroto professor of chemistry and biochemistry, Florida State Univ.; Nobel laureate
- Edwin C. Krupp astronomer, director, Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, CA
- Lawrence Kusche science writer
- Leon Lederman emeritus director, Fermilab; Nobel laureate in physics
- Scott O. Lilienfeld* psychologist, Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA
- Lin Zixin former editor, Science and Technology Daily (China)
- Jere Lipps Museum of Paleontology, Univ. of CA, Berkeley
- Elizabeth Loftus* professor of psychology, Univ. of CA, Irvine
- David Marks psychologist, City Univ., London
- Mario Mendez-Acosta journalist and science writer, Mexico City
- Kenneth R. Miller professor of biology, Brown Univ.
- Marvin Minsky professor of media arts and sciences, M.I.T.
- David Morrison space scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
- Richard A. Muller professor of physics, Univ. of CA, Berkeley
- Joe Nickell senior research fellow, CSI
- Jan Willem Nienhuys mathematician, Waalre, The Netherlands
- Lee Nisbet philosopher, Medaille College
- Steven Novella MD, assistant professor of neurology, Yale Univ. School of Medicine
- Bill Nye science educator and television host, Nye Labs
- James E. Oberg science writer
- Irmgard Oepen professor of medicine (retired), Marburg, Germany
- Loren Pankratz psychologist, Oregon Health Sciences Univ.
- Robert L. Park professor of physics, Univ. of Maryland
- Jay M. Pasachoff Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy and director of the Hopkins Observatory, Williams College
- John Paulos mathematician, Temple Univ.
- Clifford A. Pickover scientist, author, editor, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Massimo Pigliucci professor of philosophy, City Univ. of New York–Lehman College
- Steven Pinker cognitive scientist, Harvard Univ.
- Philip Plait astronomer, lecturer, and writer
- Massimo Polidoro science writer, author, executive director of CICAP, Italy
- Anthony R. Pratkanis professor of psychology, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
- Benjamin Radford investigator; research fellow, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
- James “The Amazing” Randi magician, CSICOP founding member; founder, James Randi Educational Foundation
- Milton Rosenberg psychologist, Univ. of Chicago
- Wallace Sampson MD, clinical professor of medicine, Stanford Univ.; editor, Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine
- Amardeo Sarma* chairman, GWUP, Germany
- Richard Saunders president, Australian Skeptics; educator; investigator; podcaster; Sydney, Australia
- Joe Schwarcz director, McGill Office for Science and Society
- Eugenie C. Scott* physical anthropologist, executive director, National Center for Science Education
- Robert Sheaffer science writer
- Elie A. Shneour biochemist, author, president and research director, Biosystems Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
- Seth Shostak senior astronomer, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA
- Simon Singh science writer; broadcaster; UK
- Dick Smith film producer, publisher, Terrey Hills, N.S.W., Australia
- Keith E. Stanovich cognitive psychologist; professor of human development and applied psychology, Univ. of Toronto
- Victor J. Stenger emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, Univ. of Hawaii; adjunct professor of philosophy, Univ. of CO
- Karen Stollznow* linguist; skeptical investigator; writer; podcaster
- Jill Cornell Tarter astronomer, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA
- Carol Tavris psychologist and author, Los Angeles, CA
- David E. Thomas* physicist and mathematician, Peralta, NM
- Neil deGrasse Tyson astrophysicist and director, Hayden Planetarium, New York City
- Indre Viskontas cognitive neuroscientist, tv and podcast host, and opera singer, San Francisco, CA
- Marilyn vos Savant Parade magazine contributing editor
- Steven Weinberg professor of physics and astronomy, Univ. of Texas at Austin; Nobel laureate
- E.O. Wilson Univ. professor emeritus, organismic and evolutionary biology, Harvard Univ.
- Richard Wiseman psychologist, Univ. of Hertfordshire, England
- Benjamin Wolozin professor, department of pharmacology, Boston Univ. School of Medicine
- Marvin Zelen statistician, Harvard Univ.
* denotes member of CSI Executive Council
