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Barry Beyerstein
Barry L Beyerstein (May 19, 1947 - June 25, 2007) was a scientific skeptic and professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. Beyerstein's research explored brain mechanisms of perception and consciousness, the effects of drugs on the brain and mind, sense of smell and its lesser-known contributions to human cognition and emotion. He was founder and chair of the BC Skeptics Society. A Fellow and member of the Executive Council of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), now known as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Associate editor of the ''Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine'' Journal as well as a contributor to Skeptical Inquirer Magazine. Beyerstein was one of the original faculty of CSICOP's Skeptic's Toolbox which is still being held.
Beyerstein was a co-founder of the Canadian for Rational Health Policy and a member of the Advisory Board of the Drug Policy Foundation of Washington D.C. He was a founding board member of the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy and contributed to the ''International Journal of Drug Policy''. According to long-time friend James Alcock, Beyerstein once addressed the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health during discussions leading up to the passage of the Controlled Substances Act".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/think/ )〕 Along with his brother Dale, Barry was active "in the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association".〔
==Early life==
According to friend James Alcock, Barry's father Hilliard Beyerstein had many occupations during Barry's life: magician, chiropractor, bank manager, writer of self-help books, owner of a cosmetics manufacturing business, real estate speculator and building contractor, Barry's mother was a school teacher. When his father would build a house, the family would live in it for a while, then move. "Barry... moved thirty times within his neighborhood while growing up".〔 Raised on magazines ''Fate'' and ''Popular Science'' as well as many paranormal TV shows, Beyerstein felt that this “enchantment... inclined me toward an eventual career in the study of consciousness”. Intrigued throughout high school with séances, handwriting analysis, hypnosis and other paranormal beliefs, Beyerstein with the help of his friends, conducted many experiments. This was far before he learned about experimental controls, which explained the constant success of their tests.〔Barry Beyerstein, “From Fate to Skeptical Inquirer”, Paul Kurtz (ed) (2001). ''Skeptical Odysseys: Personal Accounts by the World's Leading Paranormal Inquirers''. Prometheus Books, pgs. 101-119. ISBN 1-57392-884-4.〕
Entering Simon Fraser University in 1965, Beyerstein declared his major in psychology with a minor in philosophy. “As I delved deeper into those subjects, I began to doubt the inevitability of an eventual happy marriage between science and the paranormal... after my first course in the philosophy of science... the fundamental assumptions and modus operandi of science were seriously at odds with most of what I knew of physical research.” By his junior year in college he was hooked on studying the brain. In 1968, Beyerstein moved to the San Francisco area to attend UC Berkeley, where “party chit-chat could accept a guest's description of his latest out-of-body experience or the need to have her chakras realigned as casually as one might receive the morning's weather forecast. I frequently found myself the odd man out... (they thought) I was a nice guy, but hopelessly 'linear' and 'left-brained', despite my de rigueur shoulder-length hair, tie-dye T-shirt, bell bottoms and cowboy boots.”〔
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