22 Facts About Steven Novella

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Steven Paul Novella was born on July 29,1964 and is an American clinical neurologist and associate professor at Yale University School of Medicine.

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Steven Novella is a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

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Steven Novella was raised in New Fairfield, Connecticut and has four siblings.

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Steven Novella considered becoming a lawyer prior to attending college but decided to go into medicine as a teenager.

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In 1991, Steven Novella earned a medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine.

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The group began to organize in late 1995, when DeAngelis and Steven Novella noticed a lack of listings for their area in Skeptical Inquirer magazine.

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Steven Novella has served as the president of the NESS since inception.

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Steven Novella is a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and has been active in the organized skeptical community as a member of the executive committee of Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism.

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Steven Novella investigated such claims as Ouija boards, the ability to control the flipping of a coin, a mind reader who got zero out of 20 correct, and many dowsers.

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In May 2005, Steven Novella started The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast with Perry DeAngelis, Evan Bernstein, and his brothers Bob and Jay Steven Novella.

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Steven Novella said the SGU show primarily addresses controversial topics and topics on fringe science, with common content on paranormal or conspiracy theories, health fraud, and issues of consumer protection.

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In 2007, Steven Novella started a blog, Neurologica, "your daily fix of neuroscience, skepticism and critical thinking", for which he writes on a weekly basis covering subjects generally related to science or skepticism.

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Steven Novella is the executive editor of the blog Science-Based Medicine for which he is a regular contributor, and he is a medical advisor to Quackwatch, an alternative medicine watchdog website.

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In 2008, Steven Novella signed the Project Steve petition, a tongue-in-cheek parody of the list of "scientists that doubt evolution" produced by creationists.

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Steven Novella is an associate editor of the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine, and writes the monthly Weird Science column for the New Haven Advocate newspaper.

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Steven Novella created several Dungeons and Dragons campaign and expansion packs.

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In 2009, Steven Novella was the board chairman when the Institute for Science in Medicine was founded.

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In January 2010, Steven Novella was elected as a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

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In 2011, Steven Novella was appointed Senior Fellow of the James Randi Educational Foundation, and Director of their Science-Based medicine project.

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Steven Novella co-owned a local live action role-playing game for about 5 years, during which time the owners wrote seven D20 System books.

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Tobinick was unable to show that Steven Novella had profited from his blog post or that it was an advertisement.

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Steven Novella often writes and speaks about a variety of topics in areas of alternative medicine, the new age movement, parapsychology, and pseudoscience.