Presenter: BC Skeptics and Department of Psychology
Title: How Not to Test a Medium
Speaker: Dr. Ray Hyman and Jerry Andrus
Date: 7:30 pm, 8 November 2001
Location: The Halpern Center, Simon Fraser University
Admission: Open to public. Free.

The BC Skeptics and the public are invited to see Ray Hyman and Jerry Andrus on Friday afternoon as well, but for those who are not free during the day, Jerry and Ray will remain at SFU's Halpern Centre for a return engagement on Friday evening.

Ray will be elaborating on themes discussed in his Friday afternoon presentation to the SFU Psychology Department (and, if coaxed, will most likely demonstrate some of the magic effects he has created that have earned him laudatory write-ups in several of the leading professional magicians' journals).

Jerry Andrus, from Albany, Oregon, will be on hand to demonstrate his unique close-up magic effects that routinely dumfound the best professional magicians in the trade. Jerry will also be bringing a variety of his completely original optical illusions to show at the Halpern Centre. If you think the illusions in most psychology texts are clever, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Jerry has created these completely original displays for BC Science World and many other leading science museums across North America and Europe. He is a regular performer at the Magic Castle in Los Angeles and lectures frequently to professional magicians' conferences. Jerry is a fellow of CSICOP and has been a faculty member, along with James Alcock, Barry Beyerstein, Loren Pankratz, and Wallace Sampson, at each of Ray Hyman's Skeptics' Toolbox symposia at the University of Oregon.