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To: Arcane Lore who wrote (37730)	1/23/1998 12:07:00 AM
From: Pugs	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 55532

The second investor isn't even a 'reality' yet....but don't discount the new bottling facilities and the backorders for RMCWater....The investor isn't! Pugs

To: Arcane Lore who wrote (37730)	1/24/1998 1:31:00 AM
From: Riley G	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 55532

Subject: RMIL and CSICOP I have always thought that the skeptical group known as CSICOP has been involved in some of the RMIL bashing. This email captured from the CSICOP skeptical email letter leads me to believe that some of the posters on SI are from CSICOP, as the reference to me and all the links to skeptical web sites is one give-a-way, along with the mention of sock puppets and numerous other things. It does appear that some of our activities are indeed from known skeptics that have been attacking me for some 8 to 10 years on the internet. Riley G The real PSICOP (Psychic Cop) Other links of interest: csicop.org csicop.org csicop.org -------- csicop.org SKEPTICAL INQUIRER ELECTRONIC DIGEST For free Digest subscriptions, go to: csicop.org January 23, 1997. SI Electronic Digest is the weekly e-mail news update of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP.) --Council for Media Integrity Stock Fund Adds Shares In CBS _____________________________________________________________ MEDIA STOCK FUND ADDS SHARES IN CBS Furthering CSICOP's campaign to leverage a more balanced portrayal of science and pseudoscience in the mass media, the Council for Media Integrity has this week added additional shares in CBS/Westinghouse to its Media Stock Fund. The Media Stock Fund, launched in the summer of 1997, asks friends and supporters of CSICOP to help it acquire common stock in media conglomerate companies. "The Media Stock Fund" will allow CSICOP to take part in shareholder meetings, where it can question the infatuation with the paranormal increasingly demonstrated in television programming. "We are deliberately targeting each of the major television networks, and well known media conglomerates CBS (formerly known as Westinghouse), General Electric (NBC), News Corp (FOX), Time Warner (WB, Turner Broadcasting), and Disney (ABC)," Paul Kurtz, chairman of CSICOP said at the launch of the Media Stock Fund. "The media have now virtually replaced the schools, colleges, and universities as the main source of information for the general public. The irresponsibility of the media in the area of science and the paranormal is a worldwide problem. But it especially applies to the United States, where the media have been distorting science, and in particular, presenting pseudoscience as genuine science. Indeed, we are appalled by the number of 'documentaries,' which are really entertainment programs, presenting fringe science as real science." The practice of organizing shareholder response within a company is common among advocacy groups that seek socially responsible corporate conduct through shareholder passed resolutions. As a shareholder, CSICOP will have opportunities to attend shareholder meetings, submit viewpoints to shareholder publications, and sponsor shareholder resolutions. While exercising these and other shareholder rights, CSICOP will be representing a broad, international constituency who support the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe- science claims from a responsible, scientific viewpoint while providing a balanced viewpoint to the public-at-large. "The Fund will allow us to make shareholder meetings into accountability sessions for the media giants when they package superstition and pseudo-science as fact" Kurtz said. With the "Media Stock Fund", supporters may contribute monies that will be applied towards the purchase of stock in General Electric, CBS, NewsCorp, Time Warner or Disney. Dividends will be applied to the operating cost of the Council For Media Integrity. Sponsored by CSICOP, the Council is comprised of a network of distinguished members of science and academia committed to monitoring the media. A statement endorsed by the members of the council maintains that , "If the United States is to continue to provide leadership and compete in the global economy, we need to raise the level of scientific literacy and understanding of the general public."