The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

An International Organization

• Paul Kurtz, Chairman; professor emeritus of philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo
• Barry Karr, Executive Director
• Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow
• Massimo Polidoro, Research Fellow
• Richard Wiseman, Research Fellow
• Lee Nisbet, Special Projects Director

Fellows

• James E. Alcock,* psychologist, York Univ., Toronto
• Jerry Andrus, magician and inventor, Albany, Oregon
• Marcia Angell, M.D., former editor-in-chief, New England Journal of Medicine
• Stephen Barrett, M.D., psychiatrist, author, consumer advocate, Allentown, Pa.
• Barry Beyerstein,* biopsychologist, Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
• Irving Biederman, psychologist, Univ. of Southern California
• Susan Blackmore, psychologist, Univ. of the West of England, Bristol
• Henri Broch, physicist, Univ. of Nice, France
• Jan Harold Brunvand, folklorist, professor of English, Univ. of Utah
• Mario Bunge, philosopher, McGill University
• John R. Cole, anthropologist, Dept of Anthropology, UMass-Amherst; Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, UMass
• Frederick Crews, literary and cultural critic, professor emeritus of English, Univ. of California, Berkeley
• Richard Dawkins, zoologist, Oxford Univ.
• Cornelis de Jager, professor of astrophysics, Univ. of Utrecht, the Netherlands
• Kenneth Feder, professor of anthropology, Central Connecticut State Univ.
• Antony Flew, philosopher, Reading Univ., U.K.
• Andrew Fraknoi, astronomer, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, Calif.
• Kendrick Frazier,* science writer, Editor, Skeptical Inquirer
• Yves Galifret, Exec. Secretary, l'Union Rationaliste
• Martin Gardner,* author, critic
• Murray Gell-Mann, professor of physics, Santa Fe Institute
• Thomas Gilovich, psychologist, Cornell Univ.
• Henry Gordon, magician, columnist, Toronto
• Saul Green, PhD, biochemist, president of ZOL Consultants, New York, NY
• Susan Haack, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, prof. of philosophy, University of Miami
• C. E. M. Hansel, psychologist, Univ. of Wales
• Douglas 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
• Leon Jaroff, sciences editor, Time
• Sergei Kapitza, editor, Russian edition, Scientific American
• Edwin C. Krupp, astronomer, director, Griffith Observatory
• Paul Kurtz,* chairman, CSICOP
• Lawrence Kusche, science writer
• Leon Lederman, emeritus director, Fermilab; Nobel laureate in physics
• Scott Lilienfeld, psychologist, Emory Univ.
• Lin Zixin, former editor, Science and Technology Daily (China)
• Jere Lipps, Museum of Paleontology, Univ. of California, Berkeley
• Elizabeth Loftus, professor of psychology, Univ. of Washington
• Paul MacCready, scientist/engineer, AeroVironment, Inc., Monrovia, Calif.
• Sir John Maddox, editor emeritus of Nature
• David Marks, psychologist, Middlesex Polytech, England
• Mario Mendez-Acosta, journalist and science writer, Mexico City, Mexico
• 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 Calif., Berkeley
• Joe Nickell,* senior researh fellow, CSI
• Lee Nisbet,* philosopher, Medaille College
• 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.
• John Paulos, mathematician, Temple Univ.
• Steven Pinker, cognitive scientist, MIT
• Massimo Polidoro, science writer, author, executive director CICAP, Italy
• Milton Rosenberg, psychologist, Univ. of Chicago
• Wallace Sampson, M.D., clinical professor of medicine, Stanford Univ.
• Armadeo Sarma, engineer, head of dept. at T-Nova Deutsche Telekom, executive director, GWUP, Germany
• Evry Schatzman, President, French Physics Association
• Eugenie Scott, physical anthropologist, executive director, National Center for Science Education
• Robert Sheaffer, science writer
• Elie A Shneour, biochemist, author, director, Biosystems Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif.
• Dick Smith, film producer, publisher, Terrey Hills, N.S.W., Australia
• Robert Steiner, magician, author, El Cerrito, Calif.
• Jill Cornell Tarter, SETI Institute
• Carol Tavris, psychologist and author, Los Angeles, Calif.
• Dave Thomas, President of New Mexicans for Science and Reason
• Stephen Toulmin, professor of philosophy, University of Southern California
• Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and director, Hayden Planetarium, New York City
• Marilyn vos Savant, Parade magazine contributing editor and CBS News correspondent
• Steven Weinberg, professor of physics and astronomy, University of Texas at Austin.
• Richard Wiseman, psychologist, University of Hertfordshire
• Marvin Zelen, statistician, Harvard Univ.

* Member, CSI Executive Council (Affiliations given for identification only.)

Past Fellows

• Isaac Asimov, science writer
• Robert A. Baker, psychologist, Univ. of Kentucky
• Vern Bullough, Distinguished Professor, State Univ. of New York
• Milbourne Christopher
• Francis Crick
• Stephen J. Gould, paleontologist
• Al Hibbs, scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Philip J. Klass,aerospace writer, engineer
• H. Narasimhaiah, physicist, president, Bangalore Science Forum, India
• Dorothy Nelkin, sociologist New York Univ.
• James Randi, magician, the James Randi Educational Foundation
• Carl Sagan, astronomer, science writer
• Eugenie Scott, Director, National Center for Science Education
• Glenn Seaborg
• Marcello Truzzi

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
-- Ronald Reagan

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