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Ten New CSI Fellows | The Rendle-Sham Case | Poltergeist Scribbler | Charlie Challenge | Mesmer Thieves the Magazine for Science and Reason Vol. 39 No. 6 | November/December 2015 The Man Who Solved the BERMUDA TRIANGLE ‘MYSTERY’ LARRY KUSCHE Looks Back on His Classic Investigation BIOCENTRISM: A Curious ‘Me’ Universe The Consensus on Human-Caused Global Warming The Search for Negative Evidence We Are All GMOs Pseudoscience and the EmDrive Young-Earth Creationism Published by the Center for Inquiry in association with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Ronald A. Lindsay, President and CEO Massimo Polidoro, Research Fellow Bar ry Karr, Ex ec u tive Di rect or Benjamin Radford, Research Fellow Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow Richard Wiseman, Research Fellow www.csicop.org Fellows James E. Al cock*, psy chol o gist, York Univ., Tor on to David H. Gorski, cancer surgeon and re searcher at Barbara Jay M. Pasachoff, Field Memorial Professor of Mar cia An gell, MD, former ed i tor-in-chief, Ann Kar manos Cancer Institute and chief of breast surgery Astronomy and director of the Hopkins New Eng land Jour nal of Med i cine section, Wayne State University School of Medicine. Observatory, Williams College Kimball Atwood IV, MD, physician; author; Newton, MA Wendy M. Grossman, writer; founder and first editor, John Pau los, math e ma ti cian, Tem ple Univ. The Skeptic magazine (UK) Steph en Bar rett, MD, psy chi a trist; au thor; con sum er ad vo cate, Clifford A. Pickover, scientist, au thor, editor, IBM T.J. Watson Sus an Haack, Coop er Sen ior Schol ar in Arts and Al len town, PA Re search Center. Willem Betz, MD, professor of medicine, Univ. of Brussels Sci en ces, professor of phi los o phy and professor of Law, Univ. of Mi ami Massimo Pigliucci, professor of philosophy, Ir ving Bie der man, psy chol o gist, Univ. of South ern CA Harriet Hall*, MD, physician; investigator, Puyallup, WA City Univ. of New York–Lehman College Sus an Black more, vis it ing lec tur er, Univ. of the West of David J. Helfand, professor of astronomy, Stev en Pink er, cog ni tive sci en tist, Harvard Univ. Eng land, Bris tol Columbia Univ. Sandra Blakeslee, science writer; author; New York Times Mas si mo Pol id oro, sci ence writer; au thor; ex ec u tive Terence M. Hines, prof. of psychology, Pace Univ., di rect or of CI CAP, It a ly science correspondent Pleasantville, NY. Mark Boslough, physicist, Sandia National Laboratories, James L. Powell, geochemist, author, professor; executive direc- Doug las R. Hof stad ter, pro fes sor of hu man tor, National Physical Science Consortium; retired college and Albuquerque, NM un der stand ing and cog ni tive sci ence, In di ana Univ. museum president, Buellton, CA Hen ri Broch, phys i cist, Univ. of Nice, France Ger ald Hol ton, Mal linc krodt Pro fes sor of Phys ics and pro fes sor Jan Har old Brun vand, folk lor ist; pro fes sor emer i tus of his to ry of sci ence, Har vard Univ. Anthony R. Pratkanis, professor of psychology, Univ. of CA, of Eng lish, Univ. of Utah Ray Hy man*, psy chol o gist, Univ. of Or e gon Santa Cruz Mar io Bunge, phi los o pher, McGill Univ., Montreal Stuart D. Jordan, NASA astrophysicist emeritus; Donald R. Prothero, paleontologist/geologist, Natural History Robert T. Carroll, emeritus professor of philosophy, science advisor to Center for Inquiry Office of Public Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA Sacramento City College; writer Policy, Washington, DC Benjamin Radford, investigator; research fellow, Committee Sean B. Carroll, molecular geneticist; vice president for science Barry Karr, executive director, Committee for for Skeptical Inquiry education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Madison, WI Skeptical Inquiry, Amherst, New York James “The Amazing” Randi, magician; CSICOP founding Thomas R. Casten, energy expert; founder and chairman, Law rence M. Krauss, foundation professor, School Recycled Energy Development, Westmont, IL of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Dept.; member; founder, James Randi Educational Foundation John R. Cole, an thro pol o gist; ed i tor, Na tion al director, Origins Initiative, Arizona State Univ. Mil ton Ro sen berg, psy chol o gist, Univ. of Chic a go Cen ter for Sci ence Ed u ca tion Harry Kroto, professor of chemistry and Am ar deo Sar ma*, chairman, GWUP, Ger ma ny K.C. Cole, science writer; author; professor, Univ. of Southern biochemistry, Florida State Univ.; Nobel laureate Richard Saunders, president, Australian Skeptics; educator; California’s Annenberg School of Journalism Ed win C. Krupp, as tron o mer; di rect or, investigator; podcaster; Sydney, Australia John Cook, climate communication research fellow for Grif fith Ob ser va to ry, Los Angeles, CA Joe Schwarcz, director, McGill Office for Science and Society the Global Change Institute at the Univ. of Queensland, Law rence Kusche, sci ence writer Eu ge nie C. Scott*, phys i cal an thro pol o gist; chair, advisory Australia. Le on Le der man, emer i tus di rect or, Fer mi lab; Fred er ick Crews, lit er ary and cul tur al crit ic; pro fes sor emer i tus No bel lau re ate in phys ics council , Na tion al Cen ter for Sci ence Ed u ca tion of Eng lish, Univ. of CA, Berke ley Stephan Lewandowsky, psychologist, School of Experimental Rob ert Sheaf fer, sci ence writer Rich ard Dawk ins, zo ol o gist, Ox ford Univ. Psychology and Cabot Institute, Univ. of Bristol, UK Seth Shostak, senior astronomer, SETI Institute, Ge of frey Dean, tech ni cal ed i tor, Perth, Aus tral ia Scott O. Lil i en feld*, psy chol o gist, Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA Mountain View, CA Cor nel is de Ja ger, pro fes sor of as tro phys ics, Univ. of Utrecht, Lin Zix in, former ed i tor, Sci ence and Tech nol o gy Dai ly (Chi na) Simon Singh, science writer; broadcaster; UK the Neth er lands Je re Lipps, Mu se um of Pa le on tol o gy, Univ. of CA, Berke ley Dick Smith, entrepreneur, publisher, aviator, adventurer, Dan i el C. Den nett, Aus tin B. Fletch er Pro fes sor of Phi los o phy Eliz a beth Loft us*, pro fes sor of psy chol o gy, Univ. of CA, Ir vine Terrey Hills, N.S.W., Australia and di rect or of Cen ter for Cog ni tive Stud ies, Tufts Uni v. Daniel Loxton, author, editor of Junior Skeptic at Skeptic maga- Keith E. Stanovich, cognitive psychologist; professor of Ann Druyan, writer and producer; CEO, Cosmos Studios, zine (US), artist, Vancouver, B.C., Canada human development and applied psychology, Uni v. of Ithaca, NY Da vid Marks, psy chol o gist, City Univ., Lon don Toronto Sanal Edamaruku, president, Indian Rationalist Association and Rationalist International Mar io Men dez-Acos ta, jour nal ist and sci ence writer, Mex i co City Karen Stollznow*, linguist; skeptical investigator; writer; podcaster Edzard Ernst, professor, Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Kenneth R. Miller, professor of biology, Brown Univ. Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, Marv in Min sky, pro fes sor of me dia arts and sci en ces, M.I.T. Jill Cor nell Tar ter, as tron o mer, SE TI In sti tute, Moun tain View, CA Exeter, UK Da vid Mor ri son, space sci en tist, NA SA Ames Re search Cen ter Car ol Tav ris, psy chol o gist and au thor, Los Ange les, CA Ken neth Fed er, pro fes sor of an thro pol o gy, Rich ard A. Mul ler, pro fes sor of phys ics, Univ. of CA, Berke ley Da vid E. Thom as*, phys i cist and math e ma ti cian, Socorro, NM Cen tral Con nec ti cut State Univ. Joe Nick ell, sen ior re search fel low, CSI Neil de Gras se Ty son, as tro phys i cist and di rect or, Krista Federspiel, science journalist, expert on complementary Jan Willem Nienhuys, mathematician, Waalre, Hay den Plan e tar i um, New York City and alternative medicine, Vienna, Austria. The Netherlands Barbara Forrest, professor of philosophy, SE Louisiana Univ. Lee Nis bet, phi los o pher, Med aille Col lege Indre Viskontas, cognitive neuroscientist, tv and podcast host, and opera singer, San Francisco, CA An drew Fra knoi, as tron o mer, Foot hill Col lege, Los Al tos Hills, CA Steven Novella*, MD, assistant professor Kend rick Fra zi er*, sci ence writer; ed i tor, S I of neurology, Yale Univ. School of Medicine Stuart Vyse, psychologist, former Joanne Toor Cummings ’50 professor of psychology, Connecticut College; author Christopher C. French, professor, Department Bill Nye, sci ence ed u ca tor and tel e vi sion host, Nye Labs of Psychology, and head of the Anomalistic Psychology James E. Oberg, sci ence writer of Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition, Research Unit, Goldsmiths College, Univ. of London Irm gard Oe pen, pro fes sor of med i cine (re tired), Stonington, CT Julia Galef, host of the Rationally Speaking podcast; Mar burg, Ger ma ny Ma ri lyn vos Sa vant, Pa rade mag a zine con trib ut ing ed i tor cofounder, Center for Applied Rationality, Berkeley, CA Paul Offit, professor of pediatrics, director of the Vaccine Educa- Stev en Wein berg, pro fes sor of phys ics and as tron o my, Univ.

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