Press Coverage
The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Skeptical Inquirer science magazine, and affiliates in the media.
Shredd and Ragan Ten Town Tour
WEDG 103.3-FM
November 20, 2009
Ron Lindsay and Barry Karr interviewed live at U.B. Center for the Arts. Excellent audio is second segment of the full hour.
It’s the end of the world as we know it…maybe
SkunkPost
November 19, 2009
Short (1:26) video shows widespread 2012 public misunderstanding; Joe Nickell reassures us the end is not nigh...
Minority Report: A Crime of Shadows
Vanity Fair
November 18, 2009
The December 2009 issue quotes Skeptical Inquirer's Ben Radford from his sex-offender-hype exposé, “Predator Panic.”
End of the world in 2012? Doomsday scenario sounds familiar to skeptics
The Baltimore Sun
November 13, 2009
"As long as people have been around, they have wondered, what is the end?... What is the end of civilization?" Ben Radford
Oh, Maya! Is 2012 the end? Film boosts doomsday frenzy
USA Today
November 12, 2009
"For a lot of people (doomsday) is very real stuff. They see signs of the specter of widespread death every day in the news"
Firewalking: Mind Over Matter or a Tool for Personal Growth, or Both?
ABC News
November 10, 2009
"...stokes the critical fire of the world's leading skeptical organization, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry."
‘Ghost Hunters’ Seeks Spirits and Ratings
New York Times
November 10, 2009
“I’ve seen first-hand some of the damage that the show can do..." Benjamin Radford, Skeptical Inquirer magazine
Paranormal Explorers
Channel One News (CBS)
October 31, 2009
Videojournalist Justin Finch interviews ghost experts seeking the paranormal--and Joe Nickell
Investigating the paranormal
KPCC 89.3 FM; Southern California Public Radio
October 30, 2009
James Underdown, executive director, Center for Inquiry-West, and Chair of the Independent Investigations Group, is a panelist.
Web Extra: Radford on Ghosts
KRQE Albuquerque
October 30, 2009
Special video features Ben Radford discussing ghostly activity; supplement to theater, saloon story