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- My Brother The Debunker
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- One is the editor of a renowned magazine devoted to debunking UFOs, psychics,
- and astrology. The other believes that a superior intelligence will
- transform the human race. What's more, they're brothers. Kendrick Frazier,
- 44, and James Frazier, 39, admit they have "lively disagreements" whenever
- they get together for reunions at the family home in Greeley, Colorado. Ken
- edits THE SKEPTICAL INQUIRER, a quarterly magazine published by the Committee
- for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) and the
- scourge of the "new nonsense," including the beliefs of brother James. [SEE
- "CENSORING THE PARANORMAL," CONTINUUM #1.] But Jim, who works as editor of
- the local GREELEY NEWS, insists that his beliefs are neither new nor
- nonsense. "Our benefactors have been here as long as we have," he declares,
- "initiating the likes of Gilgamesh and Socrates into the mysteries of the
- cosmos."
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- To Ken, this sort of statement represents a threat to the progress of
- science. In the mid-70s, as editor of the respected publication SCIENCE
- NEWS, he grew alarmed when readers wrote in asking for stories on the
- paranormal. Not long afterward he began to correspond with longtime debunker
- Martin Gardner. Their idea: the formation of a skeptical, scientific
- organization "to correct public misunderstanding." 2 years later, CSICOP was
- born.
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- Jim's odyssey began in the mid-70s as well. On May 17, 1976, around 3:30 AM,
- he says, he was awakened from sleep by the voice of Beelzebub booming from
- his clock radio. Apparently, Beezlebub was speaking through radio show host
- Brian Scott, who said he'd been abducted by giant thick-skinned, long-eared
- aliens back in 1971. Ever since, Scott claimed, disembodied ETs had been
- borrowing his vocal cords to express ideas of their own. Jim, a psychologist
- and would-be film producer, listened till dawn, utterly fascinated. 6 weeks
- later he introduced himself to Scott, and several months after that, in
- December 1976, he accompanied his new friend on a visit to Inca ruins at
- Tiahuanaco, Bolivia. There, Jim Frazier says, he saw Scott become possessed
- by a mysterious being "with the presence of a king." In fact, he was more
- than a king -- he was Ticci Viracocha, the god who brought the Incas
- civilization from on high.
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- According to Jim, Brian Scott is just one of many humans who have been
- visited by alien forms. But, he says, "Scott alone has survived the
- experience with all his faculties intact. If we only listened to him, he
- would help us create a new world, a new philosophy, new forms of language, a
- new relationship between man and the unknown." One thing's for sure: The
- relationship between Jim Frazier and Brian Scott continues to this day. Jim
- now owns the rights to Scott's life story and has even written a TV
- miniseries about his friend.
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- Ken Frazier is reluctant to discuss his brother's unusual beliefs outside the
- immediate family. But, he states, "it's possible for people to have vivid
- personal experiences from which belief systems stem. I don't question the
- seeming realness of these experiences."
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