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         The B.C. Skeptics and the Psychology Department, S.F.U.
                               present
                              a talk by 
                            WILLIAM DAVIS
             (The Cigarette-smoking Man from the X-Files)

                      A SKEPTIC IN AN ALIEN WORLD

                   Thursday, January 29th, 7:30 p.m.

          West Mall Complex (WMX) 3520, Simon Fraser University

The Canadian actor, director, and teacher Bill Davis plays the
"Cigarette-Smoking Man" on the TV show, the X-Files.  A former drama
professor at Bishop's University in Quebec, he now heads the William
Davis Centre for Acting Study in Vancouver.  In addition to his acting
and directing duties, he lectures extensively throughout Canada, the
US, Europe, and the UK.  Among his other credits, he is also a former
Canadian senior waterskiing champion.

A long-standing skeptic and science aficionado, Bill Davis doubts the
conspiracy theories, alien abductions, and other paranormal scenarios
that permeate the plots of the hit program in which he acts (e.g., he has
debated Dr. John Mack, the Harvard psychiatrist who takes extraterrestrial
abductions very seriously).  Davis defends these fantasies as dramatic
devices, however, and he has challenged the skeptical movement to produce
hard evidence for the oft-heard claim that shows like the X-Files increase
the public's level of belief in the supernatural and pseudoscience.

The lecture is free and open to the public.  The West Mall Complex (WMX)
is north of the gymnasium at S.F.U., accessible from the north side of
the west end of the Main Mall.  For further information, contact Barry
Beyerstein in the Psychology Department at S.F.U.  (291-3743, 291-3354,
or bbeyerstein@arts.sfu.ca).

Visit the BC Skeptics web site at  http://psg.com/~ted/bcskeptics/
and follow the link to "A Skeptic in an Alien World" for more detailed
directions to the venue, including maps.

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ted@psg.com  http://psg.com/~ted/  (Ted Powell)
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If you believe everything that skeptics tell you,
you aren't listening to what they're saying.