Every year the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) presents The Amaz!ng Meeting (TAM) in Las Vegas, about science, skepticism and critical thinking. This In Memoriam reel ran July 13 and July 14 at TAM2012 to take note of people relating to skepticism who have died in the past 12 months. http://randi.org

1. In Memoriam
July 2011 - July 2012

2. Robert Ader
1932 - 2011
Psychoneuroimmunology &
placebo research

3. Bill Broderick
1931 - 2011
Humanist

4. Text
Rob Buckman
1948 - 2011
Oncologist, comedian and Humanist

5. Sir Paul
Callaghan
1947 – 2012
Physicist; tested alternative
therapy on his own cancer,
found "absolutely no
evidence" it worked

6. Text
Frank Cioffi
1928 - 2012
Philosopher, researched pseudoscience of Freud

7. Norman
Edmund
1916 - 2012
Edmund Scientific &
Edmund Optics

8. Text
Hilary Evans
1929 - 2011
Forteana & UFO researcher

9. Joe Fox, Jr.
1959 - 2012
Humanist

10. Text
Christopher Hitchens
1949 - 2011
Author, journalist, raconteur, atheist

11. Brian Isbell
1975 - 2012
JREF Forum - "BrianSI"

12. Peter
Johansson
1978 - 2012
JREF Forum - "Curnir"

13. Ajita Kamal
1978 - 2011
Founder of Nirmukta

14. Text
Lynn Margulis
1938 - 2011
Evolutionary biologist

15. Ulric Neisser
1928 - 2012
Cognitive psychology, False
Memory Syndrome
Foundation

16. Steve Randak
1945 - 2011
Biology teacher

17. Text
F. Sherwood Rowland
1927 - 2012
Discovered CFC/ozone layer connection

18. Dharmapala
Senaratne
1944 - 2011
President, Sri Lankan
Rationalist Association

19. Niall Shanks
1959 - 2011
Philosopher
"God, the Devil, and
Darwin: A Critique of
Intelligent Design Theory"

20. Phillip V.
Tobias
1925 - 2012
Paleoanthropologist

21. Jeffrey A.
Wenning
1952 - 2012
JREF Forum - "Mr. Skinny"

22. Text
Winstone Zulu
1964 - 2011
AIDS activist

23. Passages of Note
July 2011 - July 2012

24. Billie
Bainbridge
2007 - 2012
Patient of Burzynski Clinic

25. Phyllis
Benjamin
? - 2012
President, International
Fortean Organization
(INFO)

26. Al Berry
1941 - 2012
"Sierra sounds" of Bigfoot

27. Al Bielek
1927 - 2011
Claimed to be Philadelphia
Experiment survivor

28. Text
Joe Cooper
1924 - 2011
Debunker of Cottingley, remained a believer of
other phenomena

29. William R.
Corliss
1926 - 2011
Physicist, wrote about
anomalous phenomena

30. Richard T.
Crowe
1948 - 2012
Ghost hunter
"Ghost Tours of Chicago"

31. Sahar Dimus
1969 - 2011
Orang pendek tracker and
tiger shaman

32. Robert
Ettinger
1918 - 2011
Father of "cryonics"

33. Lucius Farish
1937 - 2012
UFO Newsclipping Service

34. Paddy
Freaney
1939 - 2012
Claimed to have seen a live
moa

35. Linda
Georgian
1945 - 2012
Psychic Friends Network

36. Robert
Girard
1942 - 2011
Cryptozoology & Forteana
bookseller

37. Charles E.
Hickson Sr.
1931 - 2011
Claimed alien abduction

38. Budd
Hopkins
1931 - 2011
Promoted UFO abductions

39. Text
Steve Jobs
1955 - 2011
Victim of alternative medicine?

40. Text
Marie Kolasinski
1921 - 2012
Cult leader

41. Don Lapre
1964 - 2011
“King of Infomercials”

42. Christopher
Logue
1926 - 2011
Fortean fiction

43. Sir Simon
Marsden
1948 - 2012
Ghost photographer

44. Brian
O'Leary
1940 - 2011
Former astronaut,
espoused alternative
energy & Face on Mars

45. Text
Maria Papagiannidou
1965 - 2012
Journalist, HIV denialist

46. Bert Potter
1925 - 2012
Cult founder

47. Text
William Graham Ritchie
1943 - 2011
Fortean researcher aka W. Ritchie Benedict

48. William G.
Roll
1926 - 2012
Parapsychologist

49. Earl Rose
1927 - 2012
Dallas coroner not allowed
to examine JFK

50. Text
Theodore Roszak
1933 – 2011
Neo-Luddite who coined term "counterculture"

51. R.W.
Schambach
1926 - 2012
Evangelist & faith healer

52. Helmut
Schmidt
1928 - 2011
Parapsychologist

53. David
Servan-
Schreiber
1961 - 2011
Physician who espoused
alternative cancer
treatments.
“Anticancer”

54. Jean-Gaston
Tremblay
1928 - 2011
Cult leader known as Pope
Gregory XVII

55. Text
Joan Wood
1944 - 2011
Medical examiner in Lisa McPherson
(Scientology) case