Several consultants, fellows, and staff of CSICOP provide on-camera commentary in an upcoming Learning Channel special on history's top ten paranormal claims. CSICOP Chair Paul Kurtz, Senior Research Fellow Joe Nickell, Public Relations Director Matt Nisbet, Skeptical Inquirer Managing Editor Ben Radford, Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine (SRAM) editor Lewis Vaughn, and University of Toronto astronomer Michael DeRobertis provide evaluations of various claims including spiritualism, psychic surgery, alien abductions, the Shroud of Turin, UFO sightings, and alternative medicine.

Astronomer Jill Tarter, director of the SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA. Admission is $5.

John Maddox, editor emeritus of the journal Nature and author of the current best-seller What Remains to be Discovered. Drawing on his experience as editor of the world's leading science journal, Maddox will be discussing the future of science. Admission is $5.

Lecture by X-Files' 'Cigarette-Smoking Man', William B. Davis

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SANTA MONICA, CA-- What's science fact and what's fiction? What's the difference between a hoax and a genuine unsolved mystery? Who's a crackpot and who's a scientific visionary? And how can we, the lay public, tell? These are the thorny questions tackled in the "Beyond Science?" episode of Scientific American Frontiers. Host Alan Alda tries to dowse for water and takes part in an experiment to see if it works. He also conducts an alien autopsy, has his handwriting analyzed by graphologists, tracks down a purportedly unlimited new energy source, and explores the idea of healing by manipulating a patient's "energy fields."

The episode features prominently CSICOP Executive Council members Ray Hyman, Barry Beyerstein, and Nobel laureate and CSICOP fellow Steven Weinberg.