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PHIL KLASS AND ROBERT BAKER REMEMBERED • EXPOSING A PSEUDOSCIENCE SCAM • LEGENDS OF CASTLES AND KEEPS I / THE MAGAZINE FOR IENCE AND REASON Volume 29, No. 6 • NovxemCT If/ December 2005 Mark Perakh David Morrison Lawrence Krauss Jason Rosenhouse Sean B. Carroll Elie Shneour Lawrence S. Lerner Published by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal THE COMMITTEE FOR THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION of Claims of the Paranormal AT THE CENTER FOR INQUIRY- TRANSNATIONAL (ADJACENT TO THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO] AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION Paul Kurtz, Chairman; professor emeritus of philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo Barry Karr, Executive Director Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow Massimo Polidoro, Research Fellow Richard Wiseman, Research Fellow Lee Nisbet. Special Projects Director FELLOWS James E. Alcock* psychologist York Univ., Toronto Saul Green. 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