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Joe Nickell (born December 1, 1944) is an American skeptic and investigator of the paranormal. Nickell is senior research fellow for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and writes regularly for their journal, Skeptical Inquirer. He is also an associate dean of the Center for Inquiry Institute. He is the author or editor of over 30 books.
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry member and skeptic Joe Nickell notes that the family could have misidentified "eagle owls" or great horned owls, which are nocturnal, fly silently, have yellow eyes, and aggressively defend their nests. According to Nickell, meteor sightings also occurred at the time that could explain Billy Ray Taylor's claim ...
Skeptic Joe Nickell [10] wrote that there was "simply no credible evidence to suggest the boy was possessed by demons or evil spirits" and maintains that the symptoms of possession can be "childishly simple" to fake. Nickell dismissed suggestions that supernatural forces made scratches or markings or caused words to appear on the teenager's ...
Sceptic Joe Nickell also was not convinced and offered alternative explanations. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] In the July 2013 issue of the Burlington Magazine , [ 37 ] two of the research specialists from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Louis van Tilborgh and Teio Meedendorp, present a theory that at the time of his death, van Gogh was in a troubled state ...
Sceptic Joe Nickell of the US-based Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) examined the findings of paranormal investigators and criticised them for being overly credulous; when a supposedly disembodied demonic voice was heard, Playfair noted that "as always Janet's lips hardly seemed to be moving." He ...
Nickell is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Elizabeth Nickell-Lean, mezzo-soprano; Francis M. Nickell, American politician; Joe Nickell, paranormal investigator; Matt Nickell, American soccer player; Nick Nickell, American bridge player; Stella Nickell, American criminal; Stephen Nickell, British economist ...
The case was later re-evaluated by the skeptic Joe Nickell who concluded that all the phenomena could be explained by deliberate trickery from Hermann's son James Jr. According to Nickell, both Pratt and Roll were rather credulous and had little understanding of magic trickery.
Joe Nickell, a senior research fellow for the Committee of Skeptical Inquiry examined the statue using a stethoscope to verify this claim. The examination aimed to determine if there was any audible evidence supporting the claim that the statue had a heartbeat. Nickell concluded that there was no heartbeat detectable in the statue. [8]