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Cautions notwithstanding, I must admit to a new appreciation of intuition, without which I would not have known of my wonderful daughter — and two grandsons! It's enough to warm an old skeptic's heart.

Joe Nickell

People assume it was about religion.... I put together a team that had Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and agnostics.... For us it was not a religious issue, it was a matter of evidence.... You want people to be precisely correct about evidence. Details matter.

Joe Nickell

The glistening varnish and certain surface irregularities created a play of light that produced the appearance of weeping. A religious supplicant predisposed to see tears...could, especially if carrying a candle, see in the resultant glimmering in the tiny eyes, aided by vertical cracks and other streaks, the effect of tears.

Joe Nickell

Joe Nickell

Joe Nickell

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Born: December 1, 1944 (age 79)

Bio: Joe Nickell is an American prominent skeptic and investigator of the paranormal. He has helped expose such famous forgeries as the purported diary of Jack the Ripper. In 2002 he was one of a number of experts asked by scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Known for:

Secrets of the Sideshows (2005)
Real-Life X-Files (2001)
Adventures in Paranormal Investigation (2007)

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