The Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health
Coordinating Committee & Fellows
Coordinating Committee
Paul Kurtz, Ph.D., emeritus Philosophy, SUNY at Buffalo, Chairman
Scott Lilienfeld, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Graduate Program
of Clinical Psychology, Emory University; Editor The Scientific
Review of Mental Health Practice Georgia
Wallace Sampson, M.D., Oncologist; Editor, The Scientific
Review of Alternative Medicine California
Andrew Skolnick, Executive Director, CSMMH
Barry Karr, Executive Director, CSICOP
David Triggle, Ph.D., School of Pharmacy, SUNY at Buffalo
Fellows
James Alcock, Ph.D., Psychology, York University, Canada
Robert Baker, Ph.D., Psychology, Emeritus, University of Kentucky
R. Christopher Barden, J.D., Ph.D., National Association for
-Consumer Protection in Mental Health Practices, North Salt
Lake, Utah
David H. Barlow, Ph.D., Psychology, Boston University
Stephen Barrett, M.D., Editor, Quackwatch, Allentown, -Pennsylvania
Aaron T. Beck, M.D., Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania
Baruj Benacerraf, MD, Nobel Laureate, President emeritus,
Dana-Farber Institute
Gershon Ben-Shakhar, Ph.D., Psychology, Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, Israel
Willem Betz, M.D., Brussels, Belgium
Barry L. Beyerstein, Ph.D., Psychology, Simon Fraser University,
Canada
Susan Blackmore, Ph.D., Psychology, University of the West
of England, Bristol, UK
Avrum Bluming, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University
of Southern California
Marilyn Bowman, Ph.D., Psychology, Simon Fraser University,
Canada
Patricia A. Brennan, Ph.D., Psychology, Emory University
Henri Broch, Sc.Dr., Physics, University of Nice, France
Robert Buckman, M.D., Oncologist, Sunnybrook & Women's College
Health Science Center, Toronto, Canada
Vern L. Bullough, RN, Ph.D., Department of Nursing, University
of Southern California
Terence Campbell, Ph.D., Private Practice, Sterling Heights,
Michigan
Shawn Carlson, PhD, Physics, San Diego State University
Frederick Crews, Ph.D., English, University of California
at Berkeley
Patrick Curry, Consumer Advocate, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Gerald Davison, Ph.D., Psychology, University of Southern
California
Robyn Dawes, Ph.D., Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Grant Devilly, Ph.D., Criminology, University of Melbourne,
Australia
Nahum J. Duker, MD, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple
University School of Medicine
Albert Ellis, Ph.D., Albert Ellis Institute, New York, New
York
Edwin Erwin, Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Miami
David Faust, Ph.D., Psychology, University of Rhode Island
Giovanni A. Fava, M.D., Psychology, University of Bologna,
Italy
Antony Flew, Professor emeritus of Philosophy, Reading University
Adrian Furnham, D.Phil., Psychology, University College London,
UK
Eileen Gambrill, Ph.D., School of Social Welfare, University
of California at Berkeley
Silvio Garattini, director, Mario Negri Pharmacology Institute,
Milan, Italy
Howard N. Garb, Ph.D., VA Pittsburgh Health System and University
of Pittsburgh
Martin Gardner, Author, Critic
Brandon Gaudiano, Ph.D., Brown University School of Medicine
Gina Green, Ph.D., New England Center for Children, Southboro,
Massachusetts
Saul Green, Ph.D., Biochemistry, New York Henry Gordon, Author,
Columnist, Broadcaster
William M. Grove, Ph.D., Psychology, University of Minnesota
Adolph Grunbaum, Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Allan R. Harkness, Ph.D., Psychology, University of Tulsa
James Herbert, Ph.D., MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Terence M. Hines, Ph.D., Psychology, Pace University
John Hochman, M.D., Private Practice, Los Angeles, California
Richard Hull, Ph.D., Center for Inquiry
John Hunsley, Ph.D., Psychology, University of Ottawa, Canada
William Jarvis, PhD, Public Health, Loma Linda University
Thomas Joiner, Ph.D., Psychology, Florida State University
Sergei Kapitza, Editor, Russian edition of Scientific American,
Russia
Stuart Kirk, D.S.W., Department of Social Welfare, University
of California at Los Angeles
Philip J. Klass, Technical Journalist
Donald F. Klein, M.D., Psychiatry, Columbia University and
New York State Psychiatric Institute
John Kline, Ph.D., Psychology, University of South Alabama
Arthur Kornberg, MD, Nobel Laureate, Stanford University
Arnold Lazarus, Ph.D., Psychology, Emeritus, Rutgers University
Leon Lederman, PhD, Nobel Laureate, Illinois Institute of
Technology, Chicago
Paul Lees-Haley, Ph.D., Private Practice, Woodland Hills,
California
Gerald A. Larue, ThD, Gerontology, University of Southern
California
Jill Littrell, Ph.D., School of Social Work, Georgia State
University
Jeffrey M. Lohr, Ph.D., Psychology, University of Arkansas
Elizabeth F. Loftus, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, University
of California, Irvine
Steven Jay Lynn, Ph.D., Psychology, Binghamton University,
New York
Sir John Maddox, Editor emeritus of Nature
Richard McFall, Ph.D., Psychology, Indiana University
Paul R. McHugh, M.D., Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University
Richard McNally, Ph.D., Psychology, Harvard University
Harald Merckelbach, Ph.D., Psychology, Maastricht University,
Netherlands
Harold Merskey, D.M., Psychiatry, Emeritus, University of
Western Ontario, Canada
Marvin Minsky, PhD, MIT, Rank Prize, Royal Society of Medicine
Robert Montgomery, Ph.D., Psychology, Georgia State University
Timothy Moore, Ph.D., Psychology, Glendon College, York University,
Canada
Peter Muris, Ph.D., Psychology, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Emory University
Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow, CSICOP -Amherst, New
York
John Paddock, Ph.D., Psychology and Psychiatry, Emory University
Georgia
Loren Pankratz, Ph.D., Oregon Health Sciences University
Steven Pinker, PhD, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
August Piper Jr., M.D., Private Practice, Seattle, Washington
Harrison G. Pope, MD, Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Gary Posner, MD, Internal Medicine, Tampa, FL
Ron Rapee, Ph.D., Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney,
Australia
Lawrence Riso, Ph.D., Georgia State University
Robert H. Romer, PhD, Editor, American Journal of Physics
Gerald Rosen, Ph.D., Private Practice and University of Washington
Yuji Sakano, Ph.D., Psychology, Waseda University, Japan
Bela Scheiber, MBS, Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder
Leland Shapiro, MD, Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center, Boulder
Robert Sheaffer, Author
Robert L. Spitzer, M.D., Columbia University and New York
State Psychiatric Institute
Carol Tavris, Ph.D., Social Psychologist/Author, Los Angeles,
California
Bruce A. Thyer, Ph.D., LCSW, School of Social Work, University
of Georgia
E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University
of the Health Sciences, Maryland
Samuel M. Turner, Ph.D., Psychology, University of Maryland
David Triggle, M.D., School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo
Lewis Vaughn, Buffalo, New York
Irwin D. Waldman, Ph.D., Psychology, Emory University
Jerome C. Wakefield, D.S.W., School of Social Work, Rutgers
University
Thomas Wheeler, PhD, Biochemistry, University of Louisville
Richard Wiseman, Ph.D., University of Hertfordshire, UK
James M. Wood, Ph.D., Psychology, University of Texas at El
Paso
