Massimo
Polidoro
Co-founder
and Executive Director of CICAP (The Italian Committee for the Investigation
of Claims of the Paranormal), Massimo Polidoro is one of the leading
critics on the paranormal and the occult.
Psychologist, author and conjuring expert Massimo is a Contract Professor of "Scientific
Method, Pseudoscience and Anomalistic Psychology" for
the Psychology Dept. of the University of Milan (Italy).
Thanks to a grant by Italian science journalist Piero Angela, Massimo was able
to study for over a year in the United States with James "The Amazing" Randi,
famous magician and the greatest investigator of psychic claims.
Back in Italy, Massimo graduated in Psychology from the University of Padua and
specialized in Anomalistic Psychology and in the Psychology of Deception. Thanks
to his background, it is now many years that Massimo investigates claims of psychic
powers.
Since 1989 he is the Editor of Scienza & Paranormale (Science
and the Paranormal), the magazine of CICAP, and since 1996 he is the European
Representative to the James Randi Educational Foundation.
In 2001 he was elected Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation
of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) and member of the Board of the European
Council of Skeptical Organisations (ECSO).
He is the author of 18 books and over 300 articles dealing with science and the
paranormal; he contributes to various magazines and is a columnist of The
Skeptical Inquirer.
Among his books: Final Séance (2001), Secrets of the Psychics (2003) and,
in Italian, Il sesto senso (The Sixth Sense, 2000), Investigatori dell’occulto
(Psychic Investigators, 2001), Il grande Houdini (The Great Houdini, 2001), Grandi
misteri della storia (Great Mysteries of the Past, 2002), Gli enigmi
della storia(Enigmas of the Past, 2003).
He frequently lectures around the world on subjects that range from the Psychology
of anomalous experiences to the tricks of psychic deceivers, from the feats of
Houdini to the mysteries of the past. He is also well
know to the Italian public for his frequent TV appereances.
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