James Randi

James Randi

male, 81 years old
magician, US $, stage magician, Brights, Supernatural healing, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson…debunker
James Randi (born August 7, 1928), stage name The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of...
Philip J. Klass

Philip J. Klass

male, deceased (2005)
Ufologist, pseudoscientific, crank, Pseudoscience, cancer death, Sherlock Holmes…debunker
Philip Julian Klass (November 8 1919-August 9 2005) was born in Des Moines, Iowa and died in Merritt Island, Florida. He was an electrical engineer...

James Hydrick

male
Purported psychic, telekinesis, That's My Line, psychokinesis, That's Incredible, debunker
James Hydrick was a self-described psychic who claimed to be able to perform telekinesis. Following a nationally televised demonstration of his...
Allan Hendry

Allan Hendry

male, 59 years old
Elaine Hendry, debunker, Elaine Hendrie, The UFO Handbook, Journal of UFO Studies, Center for UFO Studies
Allan Hendry is an American astronomer and ufologist. UFO historian Jerome Clark calls him "one of the most skilled investigators in the history of...

Charles B. Moore

male, 89 years old
Roswell, Project Mogul, gas balloon, spectrographic analysis, debunker, New Mexico Tech
Charles B. Moore, Jr. (born 1920) is an American physicist, engineer and meteorologist, known for his work with gas balloons. He was a former...

Emily Rosa

female
Randomly, peer-reviewed, science fair, peer review, Date of birth unknown, blue ribbon…debunker
Emily Rosa, an American from Loveland, Colorado, became at the age of 11 the youngest person ever to have a research paper published in a...
George Ogden Abell

George Ogden Abell

male, deceased (1983)
clusters of galaxies, galaxy clusters, debunker, skeptic, Pseudoscience, california institute of technology
George Ogden Abell (March 1, 1927-October 7 1983) was an astronomer at UCLA. He has been admired as a research astronomer, as an inspiring teacher,...