From: Stanton T Friedman <fsphys.nul>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:19:23 -0400
Archived: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:53:40 -0500
Subject: Re: Committee For Skeptical Inquiry

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>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark.nul>
>To: <post.nul>
>Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:45:31 -0500
>Subject: Re: Committee For Skeptical Inquiry

>I have tracked debunkers for decades and knew or know some of the
>prominent figures personally. The late Marcello Truzzi, who co-
>founded CSICOP (and who broke bitterly with it), was a close
>friend of mine. I've known Joe Nickell since the 1970s, long
>before he took a job with CSICOP/CSI, and his views then are the
>same as his views now. I don't agree with Nickell about much, but
>I do respect his intelligence and sincerity.

>Yes, many debunkers undeniably are close-minded, and some are
>even fanatical and obsessive (just like some of the people on the
>opposite side of the debate). Nothing, however, justifies
>paranoid fears that tie them to sinister gummint operations. It's
>worth noting that in CSICOP's early years anonymous papers
>circulated - at the time, speculation, I don't know how soundly
>based, tied them to the Scientologists - in which the case was
>argued that CSICOP was almost certainly a Soviet front group.

>Apparently, some people then and now are incapable of believing
>that perfectly sincere persons can hold views they disagree with.

I do wonder if anybody has traced the connections between Dr.
Corliss Lamont, a rich Philosopher and strong supporter of
Stalin's ways for a long time and who was, as I understand it, a
major contributor to the American Humanist Association.

Paul Kurtz was the President of the AHA and it was in many Ways
the forerunner of CSICOP. Two of their targets have been UFOs and
Paranormal activities which do have basic military possibilities.

Discouragement of outside interest in related activities could
serve the goals of both the CIA and Stalinists.

I am reminded that the CIA also indirectly supported causes on
campus and elsewhere.


Stan Friedman



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