1. Robert Sheaffer was born on 1949 and is an American freelance writer and UFO skeptic.
17 Facts About Robert Sheaffer
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Robert Sheaffer is a paranormal investigator of unidentified flying objects, having researched many sightings and written critiques of the hypothesis that UFOs are alien spacecraft.
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Robert Sheaffer was a founding member of the UFO Subcommittee of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and is a former fellow of that organization.
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Robert Sheaffer is a graduate of Northwestern University and a member of Mensa.
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Robert Sheaffer has frequently been quoted in the news media regarding UFOs and psychic predictions.
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Robert Sheaffer resigned from the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2017 over his objection to the election of climate scientists and their defenders as CSI Fellows.
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Robert Sheaffer has been an outspoken critic of contemporary feminism since the late 1980s.
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On his debunker blog, Robert Sheaffer calls modern feminism a con, and compares it to astrology and parapsychology in its lack of academic peer review, poor scholarship, and prevalence of false and inaccurate information and claims.
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Robert Sheaffer writes that Christ's claim to operate under a "higher law" came from his resentment at being "despised and rejected" in Jewish society due to the circumstances of his birth.
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Robert Sheaffer argues that Jesus was not crucified, nor did the resurrection take place, but that the story of the Romans crucifying Jesus was created to win converts among those who resented Roman power and rule across their empire.
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Robert Sheaffer was one of the leaders of a workshop on "Preserving Skeptic History" at The Amazing Meeting in 2013.
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Robert Sheaffer was on the panel of the "UFO Claims" session at CSICon, a conference put on by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, in 2011.
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Robert Sheaffer spoke at the "UFOs: The Space-Age Mythology" CSI workshop in 2009.
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Robert Sheaffer spoke at the "Animal Mutilations, Star Maps, UFOs and Television" session of the "Science, Skepticism and the Paranormal" conference put on by CSICOP in 1983.
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Robert Sheaffer spoke at the "Where Are They" symposium at the University of Maryland, November 1979.
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Robert Sheaffer has had a passion for opera since the age of six, and has been taking voice lessons since 1991.
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Robert Sheaffer is a tenor and regularly performs in professional opera productions.