From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Mon Jul 29 2002 - 17:38:31 PDT
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From: Barry Karr
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 12:46 PM
To: CSICOP-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: Items of Interest
1) CSICOP Chairman Paul Kurtz on Media Blitz
2) Internet debate on Creation/Evolution
3) Articles of Note
1) CSICOP Chairman and Founder Paul Kurtz has appeared
on numerous radio and television shows in the past month.
(A) Two BBC Radio World Service interviews (North American and world):
Discovery (June 22, 2002) and Outlook (June 27)
(B) WDWS Talk Radio with Brad Hansen, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, July
18, 2002
(C) WBAI Radio, New York City, interviewed by Saia Kaze and Steve
Devries, July 21, 2002, 6:40 p.m. EST.
(D) Interview: quoted on the skeptical movement in "Was zu beweisen
wäre...," in Sonntags Zeitung, Switzerland, the largest newspaper, on July
14, 2002.
(E) The interview with Paul Kurtz, which originally appeared in the New
York Times, was featured in the worldwide edition of Le Monde and The Times,
July 1, 2002.
(F) Phone interview on Australian Broadcast System from Sydney, June 20,
2002.
(G) KABC Los Angeles (ABC affiliate), June 21, 2002.
(H) Interviewed by Voice of America for Transmission worldwide June 20,
2002.
(I) Barry Farber Radio Show, nationwide (65 stations), July 23, 2002.
2) In a message dated 7/18/02 4:29:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, nmsrdave@swcp.com writes:
Hi all. There's an event of possible interest to CSICOP folks coming up in
August. It's an internet debate, pitting CSICOP Fellow Dave Thomas (that's
me!) against Discovery Institute Fellow Walter ReMine, author of "The
Biotic Message."
Details are on the web sites of New Mexicans for Science and Reason,
http://www.nmsr.org/tccsadbt.htm ,
and the Twin Cities Creation Science Association,
http://tccsa.freeservers.com/
and
http://tccsa.freeservers.com/debate.html
Thanks and all best from New Mexico!
Regards,
Dave Thomas
3) Articles of Note
On the trail of China's Bigfoot
By Rosanne Lin
Shanghai Star
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2002/0725/vo2-2.html
"North American skeptics take note - in 1976-77, the Chinese Government
sponsored a yeren (wildman) - commonly known to the West as Bigfoot -
expedition to Shennongjia Mountain Forest in central Hubei Province
consisting of 100 people, including army personnel."
Psychics to be put to the test in experiment
by ORLA HERON
Scotland on Sunday
http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/scotland.cfm?id=783522002
"PERHAPS they already know it will be a success. Psychic volunteers are
taking part in an experiment to discover whether people really can predict
the future."
What Buddhists Know About Science
By Daithí Ó hAnluain
Wired
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,53820,00.html
""I was amazed a couple of years ago when I discovered Thong Len. I had a
burnt hand, and (when I used) that technique, it was like an anesthetic had
been injected into my arm," said Jack Pettigrew, a renowned Australian
physiologist, at a Science and the Mind conference that was attended by the
Dalai Lama."
Mysterious lights at UFO Daze
By Mary Ann Holley
Sheboygan Press
http://www.wisinfo.com/sheboyganpress/area/072202-1.html
"Six glowing amber spheres lit up the night sky Saturday above a forested
area on the northern edge of Long Lake, lending credence to the statement,
"They're out there.""
Reporter not sure what to think
By Mary Ann Holley
Sheboygan Press
http://www.wisinfo.com/sheboyganpress/area/072202-2.html
"In the skewed words of Richard M. Nixon, "I am not a kook.""
A Hotel Stephen King Might Find Just Right
By ABBY ELLIN
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/23/business/23GHOS.html
"For the weary business traveler, the new executive retreat and inn on the
old Berry Hill plantation here has it all: meeting rooms, a fitness center,
a dining room with world-class cuisine, a swimming pool, tennis courts, a
jogging trail on 700 bucolic acres and a renovated 160-year-old Greek
Revival mansion with 19th-century chandeliers."
Eerie X-File of the pampas
By Reed Lindsay
Baltimore Sun
http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.journal23jul23.column
"Daniel Belot has seen his share of dead cows."
Paranormal beliefs linked to brain chemistry
by Helen Phillips
New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992589
"Whether or not you believe in the paranormal may depend entirely on your
brain chemistry. People with high levels of dopamine are more likely to
find significance in coincidences, and pick out meaning and patterns where
there are none."
Monster Hunter
CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/12/05/60II/main320219.shtml
"There are hundreds of lakes in Scotland but only one of them, Loch Ness,
is known throughout the world. Submerged in its waters may be a dinosaur,
popularly known as the Loch Ness Monster."
The So-Called 'Face on Mars' in Infrared (Released 24 July 2002)
NASA
http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20020724A.html
Was it an encounter with the paranormal or a Web site glitch?
By Jane Holahan
Lancaster New Era
http://www.lancnews.com/newera_features/july24co.shtm
"I don't want to make anyone paranoid, but something incredibly strange
happened when I tried to get on the Web site for the new movie, "Signs.""
Sometimes, the March of Science Goes Backward
By GEORGE JOHNSON
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/23/science/23ESSA.html
"No one is quite sure why they call themselves the Sheiks, but according to
one theory the name was coined by Glenn T. Seaborg, the great nuclear
chemist, as a whimsical acronym for Super-Heavy Element International
Kollaboration."
The End, To Be Continued
By Linton Weeks
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47488-2002Jul22.html
"What on earth is going on?"
Encounter
by Neil Swidey
Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2002/0721/encounter.htm
"Is John F. Kennedy's assassination always on your mind?"
Hypnotized out of fortune, man's suit claims
By HELEN PETERSON
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/5404p-5052c.html
"An eccentric millionaire philanthropist who kept his eye on the swinging
watch now says he should have been watching his wallet."
Virgin window owner keeps experts away
Ananova
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_635332.html?menu=
"The owner of a window in Brazil where an image of the Virgin Mary is said
to have appeared is refusing to let experts examine it."
Laundering the 'Truth'
by Cynthia Cotts
Village Voice
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0230/cotts.php
"According to the back cover of Forbidden Truth, a bestseller published in
France last fall and released in this country last week, a round of "secret
diplomacy between the Bush administration and the Taliban" may have
provoked Osama bin Laden into launching the September 11 attacks."
Is It A Ghost?
KFSN
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/news/072502_nw_ghost.html
"If you don't believe in ghosts, here is something that may change your mind."
Sammo Hung Plans TV Comedy About 'Feng Shui'
Reuters
http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=Entertainment&storyId=474059
"Sammo Hung , actor of American television series "Martial Law," said
Thursday he was planning a drama comedy for U.S. television about a master
of "feng shui," or Chinese geomancy."
Shroud of Turin analyst dies at 86
Associated Press
http://www.chieftain.com/monday/news/index/article/9
http://www.mcri.org/WalterMcCrone.html
"Walter C. McCrone Jr., whose analysis confirmed the Shroud of Turin was
created 13 centuries after Jesus Christ was buried, has at 86."
Naperville farmer calls mysterious crop circle 'a malicious prank'
By Susan Stevens
Daily Herald [Arlington Heights, IL]
http://www.dailyherald.com/main_story.asp?intid=37463117
"When he stepped out of his truck, the first thing Ed Corrigan noticed was
the aroma coming off the Naperville soybean field he came to inspect for
bugs and weeds."
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