---
aliases:
- Stefan Kanfer
category: "Skeptics & Critics"
tags:
  - Person
  - Skeptic
summary: "Stefan Kanfer was a reporter for *Time* magazine."
born: 1933-05-17
died: 2018-06-19
location: "New York City, New York, USA"
---

Stefan Kanfer was a reporter for *Time* magazine. He was a vocal critic of the [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]]'s involvement in [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]] research, particularly its work with [[Uri Geller]]. Kanfer targeted SRI for blame, stating, "SRI should be destroyed" for carrying out this kind of research, and that "That’s the way fascism began"[^1].

### Footnotes
[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.