This Friday, November 13, at a press conference in Los Angeles, Skeptical Inquirer magazine and the Council for Media Integrity will present its annual Candle in the Dark award to the television series PBS Scientific American Frontiers and the Snuffed Candle award to radio host Art Bell. Hollywood, the Media and the Supernatural. Held at the Los Angeles Renaissance Hotel, the conference explores themes of science and the paranormal in the media.
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The Los Angeles Renaissance Hotel 9620 Airport Blvd. In a press conference held today, a prestigious network of scientists that includes five Nobel laureates honored the producers of the PBS television series Scientific American Frontiers for balanced science programming while denouncing radio host Art Bell for perpetuating conspiracy myths and engaging in paranormal mystery mongering. Topics covered included dowsing, palm reading, free energy claims, therapeutic touch, graphology and the alien autopsy hoax. In the Dark award was Bill Nye for his science television program Bill Nye, The Science Guy. Alan Alda's and Scientific American Frontier's 'Beyond Science' is a big step in the right direction.