Marcello Truzzi
Sociologist, Author
1935 – 2003
Who was Marcello Truzzi?
Marcello Truzzi was a professor of sociology at New College of Florida and later at Eastern Michigan University, founding co-chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, a founder of the Society for Scientific Exploration, and director for the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research.
Truzzi was an investigator of various protosciences and pseudosciences and, as fellow CSICOP cofounder Paul Kurtz dubbed him "the skeptic's skeptic". He is credited with originating the oft-used phrase "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."
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- Born
- Sep 6, 1935
Copenhagen - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Cornell University
- Employment
- Eastern Michigan University
- Died
- Feb 2, 2003
Ann Arbor
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on July 23, 2013
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