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Alvarez

José Alvarez, an artist who in 1988 played the part of a medium in a hoax set up by James Randi.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan

Explained in

• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert

  Luis Alvarez was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1968, and his son Walter is a geologist. In 1980 they proposed together that an asteroid impact killed the dinosaurs.

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