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Barry Beyerstein

Psychology

#1238

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#1525

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Barry Beyerstein's Degrees

PhD Psychology University of British Columbia

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According to Wikipedia, Barry L Beyerstein 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 , 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, Beyerstein was one of the original faculty of CSICOP's Skeptic's Toolbox. Beyerstein was a co-founder of the Canadians 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". Along with his brother Dale, Barry was active in the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association.

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Barry Beyerstein's Published Works

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Effect of early and later colony housing on oral ingestion of morphine in rats (1981) (215)
Alternative Medicine and Common Errors of Reasoning (2001) (120)
The effect of housing and gender on preference for morphine-sucrose solutions in rats (2004) (73)
Contributions of taste factors and gender to opioid preference in C57BL and DBA mice (2004) (39)
Olfactory identification and psychosis (1999) (28)
The write stuff: Evaluations of graphology, the study of handwriting analysis. (1992) (27)
Comprar 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior | Naomi Pfeffer | 9781405131124 | Wiley (2009) (24)
Brainscams: Neuromythologies of the New Age (1990) (22)
Alternative Medicine: Where’s the Evidence? (1997) (18)
Addiction as an Adaptive Response: Is Smoking a Functional Behavior? (1986) (15)
Then they came for the smokers but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a smoker: Legislation and tobacco use. (1987) (12)
Neuroscience and psi-ence (1987) (11)
Methadone treatment in British Columbia: bad medicine? (1987) (9)
Alternative medicine: where's the evidence? (1997) (8)
The “Temperance Mentality”: A Survey of Students at a Canadian University (1994) (8)
Alternative medicine: Where's the evidence? (Editorial) (1997) (6)
Subliminal self-help tapes: Promises, promises (1993) (5)
Busting Big Myths in Popular Psychology (2010) (5)
Canadian Drug Policies: Irrational, Futile and Unjust (1991) (5)
Why treat doctors like pushers? (1985) (4)
Still concerned about CAM in undergraduate medical education. (2005) (4)
On Avoiding Folly (1990) (4)
Maria's Near-Death Experience: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop. (1996) (4)
Can mind conquer cancer (2007) (3)
Paranormal claims : a critical analysis (2007) (2)
The neurology of the weird: brain states and anomalous experience (2007) (2)
Graphology—a total write-off (2007) (1)
The Five Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Implications for Psychotherapy (2009) (1)
A reply to Kaplan and Parlow: Minority rights and public health are not mutually exclusive. (1989) (1)
From Dr. Beyerstein (2002) (1)
Enhancement of the Torque Response Through Task Related Imagery (1983) (1)
Comprar Ethics for Psychologists | Scott O. Lilienfeld | 9781405188784 | Wiley (2009) (0)
Is There a Role for Traditional Chinese Medicine?-Reply (1997) (0)
Whytreat doctors likepushers (1985) (0)
Introduction: The myth of 10% and other Tall Tales about the mind and the brain (2007) (0)
What ever possessed you... (1989) (0)
Reprinted from: The Skeptical Inquirer: Vol (2003) (0)

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