In Skeptical Inquirer magazine in 2011, longtime investigator Joe Nickell compared Rydén's " messages " to alleged communications from Jesus to other women claiming revelations and wrote, " the contrived handwriting, the linguistic lapses, and the indications of fantasizing all suggest that Vassula Ryden is not in touch with supernatural entities but is simply engaging in self-deception that in turn deceives the credulous.

However, in 1982 Joe Nickell published a scholarly analysis of the papers, using historical records that cast doubt on the existence of " Beale ", and linguistic evidence demonstrating that the documents could not have been written at the time alleged ( words like " stampeding ", for instance, are of later vintage ).

In addition to Sir Michael Scholar, the non-executive chairman, members of the UK Statistics Authority Board are: Non-executive members, appointed in open competition: Lord Rowe-Beddoe of Kilgetty, deputy chairman responsible for governance of the Office for National Statistics, Professor Sir Roger Jowell CBE, deputy chairman with responsibility for oversight of the UK official statistics system, Colette Bowe, Partha Dasgupta, Moira Gibb CBE, Professor Steve Nickell CBE FBA, Professor David Rhind CBE FRS FBA, and Sir Jon Shortridge KCB.

The summits around Lake Vida are as follows, Mautino Peak, Mount Saga, Mount Allen, Mount Theseus, Mount Cerberus, Mount Insel, Nickell Peak, and Sponsors Peak.

Andrew Skolnick and CSI fellows Ray Hyman and Joe Nickell shared the first award for their 2005 reports on CSICOP's testing of Natasha Demkina, a girl who claimed to have X-ray eyes .< ref >

Nickell claimed that the latter two of which were distorted by the heightened state of anxiety felt by the witnesses after having observed the former.

CSI members can also be seen regularly in the mainstream media offering their perspective on a variety of paranormal claims, and in 1999 Joe Nickell was appointed special consultant on a number of investigative documentaries for the BBC.

Paranormal investigator Joe Nickell cautions, however, that " debunkers " must be careful to engage paranormal claims seriously and without bias.

Nickell suggests, " If God deigns to use the English language, should we not expect it to be rendered accurately?

" According to Nickell, " One suspects that if Ryden were prevented from seeing what was being written, the entities supposedly guiding her hand would be unable to so faithfully follow the lines!

Nickell adds that, " at the 1983 conference of the International Association for Identification, forensic analyst John E Fischer explained how results similar to theirs could be obtained from tempera paint.

Joe Nickell notes that given the frequency with which Ronald DeFeo has changed his story over the years, any new claims from him regarding the events that took place on the night of the murders should be approached with caution.

A heavily edited sixty minute performance, written by Worthington Miner and directed by Paul Nickell, it starred Charlton Heston and Lisa Kirk.

# The Right-to-Manage model, developed by the British school during the 1980s ( Nickell ), views the labour union and the firm bargaining over the wage rate according to a typical Nash Bargaining Maximin ( written as Ώ = U < sup > β </ sup > Π < sup > 1-β </ sup >, where U is the utility function of the labour union, Π the profit of the firm and β represents the bargaining power of the labour unions ).

The episode was set on Wimbledon Common, and involved Richie and Eddie encountering a flasher ; on 15 July 1992, after the episode was filmed but before it had aired, Rachel Nickell was sexually assaulted and murdered in front of her young son on the Common.

Nickell observes, however, that Smith failed a lie detector test, gave conflicting accounts of her " vision " and could have learned the location indirectly: as it happened, the killers were eventually caught because one of them had boasted about the crime in his neighborhood

Joe Nickell, in his book Secrets of the Supernatural, gives an account of this event he got from Larry E. Arnold's article " The Flaming Fate of Dr. John Irving Bentley ," printed in the Pursuit of Fall 1976.

More importantly, it is clear from investigations by Joe Nickell and Norman Hammond that the skull was not found at Lubaantun at all, but was actually purchased by Mitchell-Hedges at a Sotheby's auction in 1943.

Nickell concluded that the shape, movement, and sounds reported by witnesses were also consistent with the silhouette, flight pattern, and call of a startled barn owl perched on a tree limb ; leading researchers to conclude that foliage beneath the owl may have created the illusion of the lower portions of the creature ( described as being a pleated green skirt ).

Joe Nickell has suggested that this footage shows one or more otters, swimming in the loch.

One notorious UK case is that of Colin Stagg, a man who was falsely accused of the murder of Rachel Nickell, in which a female police officer posed as a potential love interest to try to tempt Stagg to implicate himself.

Joe Nickell identifies parallels between the accounts of Oak Island and the allegory of the " Secret Vault " in York Rite Freemasonry, similar to the Chase Vault, identifies many prominent excavators as Freemasons, and suggests that the accounts explicitly include Masonic imagery.

*" The Secrets of Oak Island ", Joe Nickell, Skeptical Inquirer, March / April 2000.

Reprinted in The UFO Invasion: The Roswell Incident, Alien Abductions, and Government Coverups, edited by Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr, and Joe Nickell, Prometheus Books, 1997, ISBN 1-57392-131-9.

Reprinted in The UFO Invasion: The Roswell Incident, Alien Abductions, and Government Coverups, edited by Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr, and Joe Nickell, Prometheus Books, 1997, ISBN 1-57392-131-9.

* Joe Nickell, ' Alien Autopsy ' Hoax, Skeptical Inquirer, vol 19, # 6, Nov. 1995, 17 – 19.

Reprinted in The UFO Invasion: The Roswell Incident, Alien Abductions, and Government Coverups, edited by Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr, and Joe Nickell, Prometheus Books, 1997, ISBN 1-57392-131-9.

Reprinted in The UFO Invasion: The Roswell Incident, Alien Abductions, and Government Coverups, edited by Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr, and Joe Nickell, Prometheus Books, 1997, ISBN 1-57392-131-9.

The city commission is made up of four members: Linda Combs, James D. Baker, Micki Nickell, and Nancy Sorrell.

* Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr, and Joe Nickell ( editors ), The UFO Invasion: The Roswell Incodent, Alien Abductions, and Government Coverups, 1997, Prometheus Books, ISBN 1-57392-131-9, chap 7-9.

Also reprinted in The Outer Edge: Classic Investigations of the Paranormal, edited by Joe Nickell, Barry Karr, and Tom Genoni, CSICOP, 1996.

* Joe Nickell and John F. Fischer, The Crashed Saucer Forgeries, International UFO Reporter, March 1990, 4-12.

edited by Joe Nickell, Barry Karr, and Tom Genoni, CSICOP.

The organization's website features the banner – a lone sunflower on a blue field – and attributes it to Adjutant General Joe Nickell.

A number of copycat attacks involving Tylenol and other products ( see Stella Nickell for information on the 1986 Excedrin tampering murders ) ensued during the following years.

Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.

Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and abilities, he has no personal fortune to speak of, apart from his frequently fluctuating wage packet from the Prince, as he says: " If I'm running short of cash, all I have to do is go upstairs and ask Prince Fat-head for a rise.

He says in this theory that it might have been Archbishop Andreas Sunesøn's personal ecclesiastical banner or perhaps even the flag of Archbishop Absalon, based on his tireless efforts to expand Christianity to the Baltic countries.

" Rashi, on says Isaac's suspicions were aroused even more, because Esau never used the personal name of God.

On a personal level, Rodriguez says, " Forever Changes " influenced his decision to become a music critic.

Geoffrey of Monmouth says that after establishing peace throughout Britain, Arthur " increased his personal entourage by inviting very distinguished men from far-distant kingdoms to join it.

When Hannassey says he intends to fight Terrill anyway, McKay declares to Hannassey that the fight is really a personal vendetta.

Crowley says that the author was an entity named Aiwass, whom he later referred to as his personal Holy Guardian Angel ( analogous to but not identical with " Higher Self ").

Jean Dalby Clift says that people not only add their own interpretations to symbols, they also create personal symbols that represent their own understanding of their lives: what she calls " core images " of the person.

Some have proposed that the number of deaths was influenced by the development of risk compensation, which says that drivers adjust their behavior in response to the increased sense of personal safety wearing a seat belt provides.

Such rhetorical devices, discussed in more detail below, are: " ignoring the question " to divert argument to unrelated issues using a red herring ; making the argument personal ( argumentum ad hominem ) and discrediting the opposition's character, " begging the question " ( petitio principi ), the use of the non-sequitur, false cause and effect ( post hoc ergo propter hoc ), bandwagoning ( everyone says so ), the " false dilemma " or " either-or fallacy " in which the situation is oversimplified, " card-stacking " or selective use of facts, " false equivalence ", and " false analogy ".

Simek says that " as the function of the matrons was also extremely varied — fertility goddess, personal guardians, but also warrior-goddesses — the belief in the dísir, like the belief in the valkyries, norns, and matrons, may be considered to be different manifestations of a belief in a number of female ( half -?

In Paris ( 1899 ), the orchestration owes a debt to Richard Strauss ; its passages of quiet beauty, says Payne, nevertheless lack the deep personal involvement of the later works.

The Livesay Historical Society says that the names Livesay and Livesey came from the common Anglo-Saxon personal name Lēofsige ( which means " beloved victory " or " he whose victory is beloved "), and that that name refers to the Battle of Brunaburh ; but see Livesey # Etymology.

In the following years while Bisset was working as an actress in Hollywood, she made frequent trips back home in order to care for her mother, which she says got in the way of her personal relationships.

After reporting the decision of the Sacred Congregation of Rites in 1961 as resulting from the studies of scholars, the Italian-language Enciclopedia dei Santi says that there still remain the miracles that occurred and the official recognition that the Church gave in the nineteenth century, the personal devotion to Saint Philomena of popes and people who were later canonized, and the widespread general devotion that still persists, particularly at Mugnano del Cardinale in the Diocese of Nola, where pilgrims from all over the world arrive continually, giving a display of intense popular devotion.

Starting with the player on the dealer's left, each player lays one card face up in turn onto a personal discard pile, stating the cumulative value of the cards laid ( for example, the first player lays a five and says " five ", the next lays a six and says " eleven ", and so on ), without the total going above 31.

His poem, Build Soil is a critique of war and also a suggestion that pastoral, as a literary mode, should not place emphasis on social and political issues, but should rather, as Patterson says, " turn in upon itself, and replace reformist instincts with personal growth and regeneration ".

In explaining her position in regard to capitalism, she says she has a " marked personal preference for capitalism as the most productive, fair and sensible economic system on the face of the earth ," but also recognizes that the free market permits other kinds of systems as well.

The Declaration says at article 11, " It is the duty of physicians who participate in medical research to protect the life, health, dignity, integrity, right to self-determination, privacy, and confidentiality of personal information of research subjects.

A broad interpretation simply says that the adopter of the pet agrees that the animal's well-being is now their personal responsibility for the rest of the animal's life.

" Simek says that " as the function of the matrons was also extremely varied – fertility goddess, personal guardians, but also warrior-goddesses – the belief in the dísir, like the belief in the valkyries, norns, and matrons, may be considered to be different manifestations of a belief in a number of female ( half -?

As a libertarian, Stossel says that he believes in both personal freedom and the free market.

Vasquez says the character originated as a personal avatar who could carry out his own revenge fantasies.