Washington Times article about the CSICOP webpage

Site address: http://www.csicop.org

Recommended user group: Skeptics of all ages.

Creator: Founding members of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal include scientists, academics and science writers such as Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Philip Kass and many others.

Word to the web wise: Have you ever wondered why if paranormal occurrences are not happening, why are they not happening to so many different people?

CSICOP publishes the magazine the Skeptical Inquirer whose goal is "to separate fact from myth in the flood of occultism and pseudoscience on the scene today."

One extremely interesting place to nose about is the Press Releases and Media Appearances. Read actual press releases, which date back to August 1994, about the reproduction of a UFO video for Inside Edition (television), authenticity claims in connection with the infamous Shroud of Turin or how the Alien Autopsy is debunked as a hoax.

CSICOP also provides archives of magazine articles going back to January 1994, a keyword search engine allows you to easily seek out specific information.

CSICOP is not awash in a mass of fancy language - in fact it can be a bit too... scientific. And it does have a tendency to discredit almost everything, but the editorial articles are very funny.

Case in point, read writer Robert Scheafer's September/October 1996 article entitled "Psychic Vibrations: Travels on the Extraterrestrial Highway" in which Mr. Scheaffer not only takes a sarcastic scoff at Nevada's State Highway 375 located in Rachel and which is also known as `Area 52' of the Extraterrestrial Highway. Mr. Scheaffer also takes a viscous stab at self-proclaimed psychic Uri Geller - probably with one of his bent forks.

Another amusing article, "Notes of a Fringe-Watcher: Doug Henning and the Giggling Guru" (by Martin Gardner) (May/June 1995) gives Doug Henning and the many followers of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (of Beatles' fame) and Tanscendental Meditation a symbolic smack on the back of the bead. Mr. Gardner's comments on Doug Henning's plans to create a theme park called Veda Land (complete with levitating building) are guaranteed a chuckle or two. I also learned something here; Doug Henning stopped performing in 1986 to devote himself to Veda Land and transcendental meditation - funny, I had not noticed.

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