Joe Nickell

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1. Joe Nickell

   Author of Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions & Healing Cures, Inquest on the Shroud of Turin, Entities: Angels, Spirits, Demons, and Other Alien Beings

2. Martin Gardner

   Author of Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus, Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher, On the Wild Side

3. James Randi

   Author of The Faith Healers, An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, Conjuring: Being a Definitive History of the Venerable Arts of Sorcery, Prestidigitation, Wizardry, Deception, & Chicanery and of the Mountebanks & Scoundrels Who have Perpetrated these Subterfuges on a Bewildered Public, in short, MAGIC!

4. Michael Shermer

   Author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?

5. Kendrick Frazier

   Author of Science Confronts the Paranormal, Paranormal Borderlands of Science, Encounters With the Paranormal: Science, Knowledge, and Belief

6. Randel Helms

   Author of Gospel Fictions, Who Wrote the Gospels?

7. Philip J. Klass

   Author of Ufo Abductions: A Dangerous Game, Ufos: The Public Deceived, The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup

8. Jan Brunvand

   Author of The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings, Curses! Broiled Again!: The Hottest Urban Legends Going, The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends

9. Robert M. Price

   Author of Deconstructing Jesus, The Da Vinci Fraud: Why the Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction

10. Marc Hartzman

    Author of American Sideshow

11. George H. Smith

    Author of Atheism: The Case Against God, Why Atheism?

12. Ian Wilson

    Author of The Shroud of Turin, The Blood and the Shroud: New Evidence That the World's Most Sacred Relic Is Real, Mysterious Shroud

13. Melvin Harris

    Author of Investigating the Unexplained

14. Paul Kurtz

    Author of The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal, Skeptical Odysseys: Personal Accounts by the World's Leading Paranormal Inquirers

15. Robert Bogdan

    Author of Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit

16. Rachel Adams

    Author of Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination

17. Francine Hornberger

    Author of Carny Folk

18. Joseph McCabe

    Author of The Myth of the Resurrection and Other Essays (The Freethought Library)

19. Harry Houdini

    Author of Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: A Complete Exposé, A magician among the spirits

20. Peter Adam Angeles

    Author of Critiques of God: Making the Case Against Belief in God