Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

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CSICOP and Skeptical Inquirer in the News

 CSICOP at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society
 Wednesday, March 22, 2000 at the Minneapolis Convention Center

 Minneapolis Star Tribune, Thursday, March 23, 2000

 "Twin Cities Journal: Scientists consider the paranormal-very skeptically"
 Chuck Haga/Star Tribune

 Star Tribune writer Chuck Haga covered CSICOP's Wednesday March 22 session
at the Minneapolis Convention Center. with generous quotes from Paul Kurtz
and Joe Nickell's presentations, and a sense of humor that breaks the usual
media portrayals of the dour skeptic.

 Haga imagines Mulder and Scully taking seats in the audience and reacting to
quotes from Kurtz's and Nickell's discussions of alien abductions and
communication with the dead:

 Nickell shows slides of reported UFOs. But they are really comets,
airplanes, clouds and doctored photographs, he says.

 "I've seen UFOs," he says.

 Mulder perks up.

 "At Niagara Falls, I once saw a large light merge with a smaller light. But
as I got closer, I saw that it was lights on a turning helicopter."

 The online version of Haga's story has audio links to Kurtz's and Nickell's
speeches and a link to an online forum open for discussion of belief in
paranormal.

 Check out the story and the links at:

http://www.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisSlug=TCJ23&date=23-Mar
-2000&word=kurtz

or you can go to  www.startribune.com  and search on Paul Kurtz.