Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health: Encyclopedia II - Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health - Contributions to Scholarship

Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health - Contributions to Scholarship

In 2001, University of California at Irvine Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Bruce Flamm, M.D. and other researchers for CSMMH and its journal SRAM were instrumental in exposing the scandal involving the publication of a Columbia University study in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine (Cha, KY et.al. 2001).

In 2004, CSMMH joined its sister organization, the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), in designing and conducting a preliminary examination of the claims of Natasha Demkina, a 17-year-old, alleged medical psychic in Saransk, Russia. Demkina provides diagnostic readings to people based on her claimed ability to see everything inside of a person's body down to the cellular level. The producer-director of the Discovery Channel program, The Girl with X-ray Eyes, invited CSMMH and CSICOP to test the psychic's claims and brought the young woman to New York City to film the test on May 1, 2004.

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