Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

[SkeptInq@aol.com]

 Dear Friend:

 Our speaker this month, Robert Park, is profiled in Salon Magazine.  Check
out the
 article, “The Scrooge of Science,” at the following website:

 http://www.salon.com/books/it/2000/03/15/voodoo/index.html

 Then join us at The Center for Inquiry, 1310 Sweet Home Rd, Amherst, NY, on
 Saturday, March 25, 2000, at 8:00 p.m. and meet Bob in person.

 To reserve your seat, call Barry Karr at (716) 636-1425 ext. 217 today!

 Title and abstract for Dr. Park's talk on March 25:

  VOODOO SCIENCE:

  A best-selling health guru insists that his brand of spiritual healing is
  firmly grounded in quantum theory; half the population believes Earth is
  being visited by space aliens who have mastered faster-than-light travel;
  and educated people are wearing magnets in their shoes to draw energy from
  the Earth.  Did scientists set the public up for this?  In our eagerness to
  share speculative new ideas at the frontier of science, have we conveyed the
  message that the universe is so strange that anything is possible?  What can
  we tell people that will help them judge which claims are science and which
  are voodoo?


 Join us at The Center on Saturday, March 25, 2000, at 8:00 p.m. Our speaker
will be
 Robert L. Park, professor of physics at the University of Maryland, Director
of the
 Washington, Office of the American Physical Society, and author of the
forthcoming
 Voodoo Science.

 Plan now to attend this intriguing presentation! Admission is $5, Friends of
the Center free. To reserve your seat, call Barry Karr at (716) 636-1425 ext.
217 today!