Places to go, People to meet

"One way to distinguish the crank from the creative maverick is to see if they are able to comprehend or express the dominant paradigm they would like to overthrow." - Chris Ho-Stuart

"People will work every bit as hard to fool themselves as they will to fool others - which makes it very difficult to tell just where the line between foolishness and fraud is located." - Robert L. Park


Good starting points are the Usenet sci.skeptic FAQ, and the big annoted bibliography of the SKEPTIC mailing list. And Bob Carroll wrote a really good dictionary.

Stage magician James "The Amazing" Randi offers an up-and-up $1,000,000 prize for the first person who can demonstrate a psychic power. Penn and Teller have described Randi as their hero.

Some really good books:

A random selection of links:


Last modified: 5 November 2003

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