Marcello Truzzi (September 6, 1935 – February 2, 2003) was an American sociologist and academic who was professor of sociology at New College of Florida...
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officially launched on April 30, 1976, and was co-chaired by Paul Kurtz and Marcello Truzzi. In the early 1970s, scientific skeptics were concerned that interest...
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Pseudoskepticism (section Truzzi)
our best to approximate them. — Marcello Truzzi, "On Pseudo-Skepticism", Zetetic Scholar, 12/13, pp3-4, 1987 Truzzi attributed the following characteristics...
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evidence Explanatory power – Ability of a theory to explain a subject Marcello Truzzi § "Extraordinary claims" Morgan's Canon – Law of parsimony in comparative...
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Peter Hurkos were super sensitive sleuths. Authors Arthur Lyons and Marcello Truzzi Ph.D., also a founder of the International Remote Viewing Association...
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Bernard Heuvelmans, and parapsychologist John Hayes. According to Marcello Truzzi, Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University, anomalistics...
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organization founded in 1949, Comité Para, Americans Paul Kurtz and Marcello Truzzi founded the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of...
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telepathy Pseudoscience List of topics characterized as pseudoscience Marcello Truzzi Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Gerard Croiset Janet Lee Richard Wiseman...
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extraordinary proof" was used a year prior to Sagan, by scientific skeptic Marcello Truzzi. Critics state that it is impossible to objectively define the term...
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p. 293 Ward, Ray (2017). "The Martin Gardner Correspondence with Marcello Truzzi". Skeptical Inquirer. 41 (6). Committee for Skeptical Inquiry: 57–59...
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(3–4): 203–250. doi:10.1515/semi.1979.26.3-4.203. S2CID 170683439. Marcello Truzzi, in a searching article on Holmes's method (1973:93–126), anticipated...
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ISBN 9780226051963. Ward, Ray (2017). "The Martin Gardner Correspondence with Marcello Truzzi". Skeptical Inquirer. 41 (6): 57–59. Scott, C. (29 July 1982). "No...
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and was originally edited by Marcello Truzzi. About a year after its inception a schism developed between the editor Truzzi and the rest of the Committee...
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Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, Marcello Truzzi, "An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof." This idea had...
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telephones and telephoners." in Sociology and everyday life ed. by Marcello Truzzi, (1968): 59– Fischer, Claude S. " 'Touch Someone': The Telephone Industry...
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Twain. The secondary dedication named Howard Hughes, James Moody, Marcello Truzzi, Adrian‐Claude Frazier, Marilyn Monroe, Wesley Mather, William Lindsay...
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Along with other notable skeptics like James Randi, Martin Gardner, Marcello Truzzi and Paul Kurtz, he was a founding member of the Committee for the Scientific...
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nearly as psychically as they had led us to expect." According to Marcello Truzzi, Berthold E. Schwarz was the "chief victim of Project Alpha". Schwarz...
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ISBN 1-57392-680-9. Ward, Ray (2017). "The Martin Gardner Correspondence with Marcello Truzzi". Skeptical Inquirer. 41 (6). Committee for Skeptical Inquiry: 57–59...
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a boom in interest in astrology in the late 1960s. The sociologist Marcello Truzzi described three levels of involvement of "Astrology-believers" to account...
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skeptics philosopher Paul Kurtz, psychologist Ray Hyman, sociologist Marcello Truzzi, and stage magician James Randi to found the Committee for the Scientific...
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just had good ideas", and were soon joined by Marcello Truzzi who provided structure for the group. Truzzi involved Paul Kurtz, and they together formed...
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published in the late 1970s and 1980s by scholars like Margot Adler, Marcello Truzzi and Tanya Luhrmann, although it would not be until the 1990s that the...
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(1842–1927), French zoologist and early proponent of a cryptid in Lake Chad Marcello Truzzi (1935–2003), skeptic and founder of several research groups including...
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Press (2nd ed. 1992), p. 145. ISBN 0-19-866164-9. The essay appears in Marcello Truzzi (ed.), Chess in Literature, Avon Books, 1974, pp. 14–15. ISBN 0-380-00164-0...
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Michel Gauquelin, supported by psychologist Hans Eysenck; sociologist Marcello Truzzi; the Flixborough explosion in June 1974 and Lesley Castleton née Brennan...
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onwards. Cercle de Zététique de l'association Aldéran de Toulouse. Marcello Truzzi and others who are critical of the modern skeptical movement often...
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Occult documented the errors Hurkos had made. Authors Arthur Lyons and Marcello Truzzi PhD, also a founder of the International Remote Viewing Association...
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field he termed "zetetics," (not to be confused with zeteticism, Marcello Truzzi's term for scientific skepticism), which Tykociński-Tykociner described...
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Languages of Europe. Walter de Gruyter. p. 307. ISBN 978-3-11-021920-3. Marcello Truzzi (1974). Sociology for pleasure. United States: Prentice Hall. p. 365...
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