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aliases:
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- Stefan Kanfer
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category: "Skeptics & Critics"
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tags:
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- Person
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- Skeptic
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summary: "Stefan Kanfer was a reporter for *Time* magazine."
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born: 1933-05-17
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died: 2018-06-19
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location: "New York City, New York, USA"
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---
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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].
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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