X-Message-Number: 19777
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 00:27:51 -0700
From: Mike Perry <>
Subject: CSICOP and the unparanormal

Bill Walker, #19745, writes (in part)
>...CSICOP will
>expose "cults" (defined as any religion small enough not to have political
>power), but they don't take on the really big frauds. When was the last time
>the Skeptical Inquirer ran an article on the workings of the Federal Reserve?
>Or Social Security? Or US foreign "aid"? Or the FDA? Or publik skools? Or
>Drug Prohibition?

But these don't involve "claims of the paranormal" (correct me if I' wrong 
;-). I'll grant that it's worthwhile to investigate these things, too, but 
it's beyond the scope of this one organization.

Mike Perry

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