Coach Nick Tumminello is the owner of Performance University International, which provides hybrid strength training and conditioning for athletes and professional educational programs for trainers and coaches all over the world. As an educator, Coach Nick has become known as the Trainer of Trainers. He has presented at international fitness conferences in Iceland, China, and Canada. He has been a featured presenter at conferences held by such organizations as IDEA, NSCA, DCAC, and ECA, along with teaching staff trainings at fitness clubs throughout the United States. Nick holds workshops and mentorship programs in his hometown of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has…
Wendy Hughes is the Editor of the Healthy Skepticism channel of Skeptic Ink Network– a skepticism activist in the Los Angeles area. Wendy is the co founder of The Odds Must Be Crazy, a blog about coincidences that explains probability and psychology to help defeat superstition. Articles by Wendy Hughes
Cathy Smith has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Texas at Austin. She is licensed in Pharmacy in the States of Texas and Michigan, and was licensed in California for some time. She has been a hospital pharmacist for twenty-three years and has worked as a clinical hospital pharmacist at a southeast Michigan teaching hospital for the last thirteen years. Her dietary turmeric needs are met monthly, as she enjoys Shrimp Curry at her local Skeptics in the Pub meeting. Articles…
Reed Loring Levine, MD, ABPN is a Board-Certified Neurologist and Pain Management Specialist who serves as the Director of Medical Education of a large subspecialty private practice medical group. Actively engaged in clinical research, he formerly served as an elected council member of the Pain and Palliative Care Section of the American Academy of Neurology and has published over a dozen peer-reviewed scientific articles and textbook chapters and been interviewed by national publications including TIME Magazine and The Huffington Post. He has a dog, who is an untraditional beauty. Articles by Reed Levine
William M. London is a specialist in the study of health-related superstition, pseudoscience, sensationalism, schemes, scams, frauds, deception, and misperception, who likes to use the politically incorrect word: quackery. He is a professor in the Department of Public Health at California State University, Los Angeles; a co-author of the college textbook Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Decisions (ninth edition copyright 2013); the associate editor (since 2002) of Consumer Health Digest, the free weekly e-newsletter of Quackwatch; one of two North American editors of the journal Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies; co-host of the Quackwatch network’s Credential Watch website; a consultant to the Committee…
Rachel Ann Gray is a PhD student studying Health Communication at the University of Albany (SUNY). She worked and raised a family before starting college at age 38. Her bachelor’s degree is in philosophy. Articles by Rachel Ann Gray
Joshua DeWald is a software engineer and an active and contributing member of the skeptic community. He writes articles that go into some depth into a claim and “what the science says” about it. “The science” is what the established authorities (FDA, CDC, etc) as well as published peer-reviewed (especially systematic reviews grouping larger bodies of papers) have to say on the topic. Josh is another welcome voice of reason bringing together accepted research of those who really know what they are doing. Please visit Josh’s blog, What Does the Science Say? Articles by Joshua DeWald
Jay Diamond is the founder of Reason4Reason – a skeptical activist group based in the San Francisco bay area. He holds dual masters degrees in engineering and business and has managed both startup companies and hundred-million-dollar programs for Fortune 50 companies. Growing up in Canada, he performed magic, studied science, and became aware of the skeptical movement. Jay has lectured around the world on science & technology, business, and skepticism. Articles by Jay Diamond
Harriet Hall, MD also known as The SkepDoc, is a retired family physician who writes about medicine, so-called complementary and alternative medicine, science, pseudoscience, questionable medical practices and critical thinking. She received her BA and MD from the University of Washington, did her internship in the Air Force (the second female ever to do so), and was the first female graduate of the Air Force family practice residency at Eglin Air Force Base. During a long career as an Air Force physician, she held various positions from flight surgeon to DBMS (Director of Base Medical Services) and did everything from delivering…
Edzard Ernst MD, PhD, FMedSci, FSB, FRCP, FRCPEd Emeritus Professor, Exeter University Dr. Ernst qualified as a physician in Germany in 1978 where he also completed his MD and PhD theses. He received hands-on training in acupuncture, autogenic training, herbalism, homoeopathy, massage therapy and spinal manipulation. Later, he became Professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) at Hannover Medical School and Head of the PMR Department at the University of Vienna. In 1993, he moved to the UK and became Chair in Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter. He is founder/Editor-in-Chief of two medical journals (Perfusion and Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies). He has…
Edward Clint is co-founder and producer of the Skeptic Ink Network. He is a USAF veteran and bioanthropology graduate student at UCLA studying evolutionary psychology and evolutionary medicine. His primary blog on Skeptic Ink is Incredulous. Articles by Edward Clint