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'''Andrew A. Skolnick''' is an American science and medical [[journalist]] and [[photographer]] best known for his [[Investigative journalism|
investigative reporting]] on [[health care]] issues, [[alternative medicine]], and [[paranormal]] claims.

==Education and Career==

In 1972, Skolnick participated in a two-year professional photography certificate program at the [[Paier College of Art]], then received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from [[Charter Oak State College]] in 1978 and an [[Master of Science|M.S.]] from the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]] in 1981.

At [[Yale University]], Skolnick was a scientific photographer in the biology department from 1975 to 1977, and a visiting lecturer teaching scientific photography from 1976-1977. His journalism experience began as a [[science journalism|science writer]] for the [[March of Dimes]] Birth Defects Foundation from 1981 to 1985, after which he served as the [[life sciences]] editor at the [[University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]] News Bureau from 1985 to 1987, the associate science news editor at the [[American Medical Association]] (AMA) from 1987 until 1989, and an associate news editor at the ''[[Journal of the American Medical Association]]'' (''JAMA'').

From 2004 to 2006, Skolnick served as the executive director of the [[Center_for_Inquiry#Medicine_and_health|Center for Inquiry's Commission on Scientific Medicine and Mental Health]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csicop.org/author/andrewaskolnick|title=(CSI Author)Andrew Skolnick|accessdate=2013-11-12}}</ref>


In 1996, he was invited to China for a semester to teach western journalism at [[Shanghai International Studies University]], where he also served as language adviser and script editor for Shanghai Television International Broadcasting Service.
==Education==


In 1998, the [[Carter Center]] Mental Health Program awarded Skolnick with an inaugural [[Rosalynn Carter]] Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism to investigate the treatment of jail and prison inmates with mental illness,<ref name=carter1998>{{cite web|url=http://www.cartercenter.org/health/mental_health/archive/author/skolnick.html|title=Rosalynn Carter Fellowship|accessdate=20 March 2011}}</ref> an investigation which led to the publication of two news reports in JAMA<ref>{{cite journal| title=Prison Deaths Spotlight How Boards Handle Impaired, Disciplined Physicians| journal=JAMA| year=1998| volume=280| number=16| pages=1387-1390| doi=10.1001/jama.280.16.1387| | accessdate=14 November, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| title=Critics Denounce Staffing Jails and Prisons With Physicians Convicted of Misconduct| journal=JAMA| year=1998| volume=280| number=16| pages=1391-1392}}</ref> and to a special series in the [[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] titled ''Death, Neglect and the Bottom Line.''<ref>
In 1972, Skolnick participated in a two-year professional photography certificate program at the [[Paier Art School]]. He received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from [[Charter Oak State College]] in 1978. He graduated in 1981 with an [[Master of Science|M.S.]] from the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]].<ref name="Skolnick resume">{{cite web|title=Skolnick resume|url=http://www.aaskolnick.com/resume.htm|accessdate=17 March 2011}}</ref>
{{citation|
newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|
title=Death, neglect and the bottom line.|
date=Sept 27, 1998|
pages=G1-3|
authors=Allen, W. & Bell, K.
url=http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=858}}
</ref><ref>
{{citation|
newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|
title=Prisoner, doctor who treated him, both had drug arrests.|
date=Sept 27, 1998|
authors=Skolnick, A. & Bell, K.
url=http://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/baddoc3.shtml}}
</ref><ref>
{{citation|
newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|
title=Two key posts in Alabama were filled by doctors with checkered histories.|
date=Sept 27, 1998|
authors=Skolnick, A.
url=http://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/baddoc2.shtml}}
</ref><ref>
{{citation|
newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|
title=Physicians with troubled pasts have found work behind bars.|
date=Sept 27, 1998|
authors=Skolnick, A.
url=http://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/baddoc1.shtml}}
</ref>


Skolnick's reporting has received awards from health, media, and humanitarian organizations, including [[World Hunger Year]], the National Association of Community Health Centers, the Carter Center Mental Health Program, and the [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]]. Skolnick, Bell and Allen also received [[Amnesty International USA]]'s "Spotlight on Media Award" and, in 1999, were listed by Harvard University's [[Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy]] as finalists for the [[Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting]].<ref>
==Career==
{{citation|
Skolnick was a scientific photographer at [[Yale University]]’s biology department from 1975 to 1977, a visiting lecturer teaching scientific photography at Yale from 1976-1977, a science writer for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation from 1981 to 1985, the life sciences editor at the [[University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]] News Bureau from 1985 to 1987, and the associate science news editor at the [[American Medical Association]] (AMA) from 1987 until 1989, when he became an associate news editor at the ''[[Journal of the American Medical Association]]'' (''JAMA''). From 2004 to 2006, Skolnick served as the executive director of the [[Center_for_Inquiry#Medicine_and_health|Center for Inquiry's Commission on Scientific Medicine and Mental Health]].
newspaper=The Harvard University Gazette|
title=Goldsmith Prizes Awarded at KSG|
date=March 18, 1999|
url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/03.18/goldsmith.html}}</ref> The following year, the [[American Medical Writers Association]] awarded Skolnick the 2000 John P. McGovern Medal for Preeminence in Medical Communication.<ref name=mcgovern>{{cite web|title=John P. McGovern Award|url=http://www.amwa.org/mcgovern|accessdate=2013-11-10}}</ref>


For the [[Skeptical Inquirer]] series ''Testing the Girl with the X-Ray Eyes'' authors [[Ray Hyman]], [[Joe Nickell]], and Skolnick were co-recipients of [[CSICOP|CSI]]'s 2005 Robert P. Balles Prize in [[Critical thinking|Critical Thinking]].<ref name=balles2005/> Skolnick's award was for the article ''Natasha Demkina: The Girl with the Normal Eyes''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Skolnick|first=Andrew|title=Natasha Demkina: The Girl with the Normal Eyes''|url=http://www.csicop.org/si/show/natasha_demkina_the_girl_with_normal_eyes/|publisher=[[Skeptical Inquirer]]|accessdate=2012-05-22}}</ref>
In 1992, Skolnick, ''JAMA'' 's editor [[George D. Lundberg|George Lundberg]], and the AMA were sued for $194 million by [[Deepak Chopra]] and two [[Transcendental Meditation]] (TM) organizations over Skolnick's ''JAMA'' news article titled, "Maharishi Ayur-Veda: Guru's Marketing Scheme Promises the World Eternal 'Perfect Health.'"<ref>{{cite web|title=Maharishi Ayur-Veda: Guru's Marketing Scheme Promises the World Eternal 'Perfect Health'|work=Journal of the American Medical Association|last=Skolnick|first=Skolnick|url=http://www.aaskolnick.com/mav.htm |accessdate=19 August 2012}}</ref> The suit alleged Skolnick's report on TM's health care products and services marketed under the trademarked name [[Maharishi Ayurveda]] was libelous and that it tortuously interfered with their business interests.<ref>The Lancaster Foundation, Inc., The American Association for Ayur-Vedic Medicine, Inc. vs. Andrew A. Skolnick, George D. Lundberg, M.D.; United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, No. 82 C 4175; Judge Charles P. Kocoras</ref> In August 1992, in a noted decision, judge Charles Kocoras of the Northern District of Illinois Federal Court rejected the plaintiff’s motion to enjoin ''JAMA'' and Skolnick under the Illinois Deceptive Practices Act from publishing statements about [[Maharishi_Vedic_Approach_to_Health#Sharma_and_Chopra|Chopra and Hari Sharma]] and Maharishi Ayurveda alleged to be defamatory. Judge Kocoras noted that the plaintiffs did not allege that the statements about them in the article were false or misleading. The decision held that "plaintiffs have little likelihood of prevailing on the merits of their disparagement claim", and that ''JAMA'' ’s and Skolnick’s alleged defamatory statements were protected as "fair comment and criticism" on an issue of public concern.<ref>McLain, Deckle, “A New Kind of Gag Order; Fortunately the Appeals Courts Don’t Like Them”, Communications and the Law 18 Com &Law 43 (1996)</ref><ref>Current Developments in Media Libel and Invasion of Privacy Law, Libel Defense Resource Center Vol 11 p 558 (1994)</ref><ref>Communications Law, Vol 2 (1994), Practicing Law Institute p 497</ref><ref>Lancaster Foundation v Skolnick 21 Media Law Reporter, 1021 (ND Ill 1992)</ref> Shortly thereafter, the case was dismissed without prejudice in March 1993.<ref>http://www.aaskolnick.com/naswmav.htm</ref>


Since his retirement from journalism in 2006 Skolnick has focused on photography of dogs, and provides photography and web site design for dog clubs and breeders.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sample Web Work|url=http://www.aaskolnick.com/new/webdesign.htm|accessdate=2013-11-16}}</ref>
In 1996, he was invited to China for a semester to teach western journalism at [[Shanghai International Studies University]], where he also served as language adviser and scrip editor for Shanghai Television International Broadcasting Service.<ref name="Skolnick resume"/>


==Controversies==
In 1998, the [[Carter Center Mental Health Program]] awarded Skolnick with an inaugural [[Rosalynn Carter]] Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism to investigate the treatment of jail and prison inmates with mental illness.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cartercenter.org/health/mental_health/archive/author/skolnick.html|title=Rosalynn Carter Fellowship|accessdate=20 March 2011}}</ref> His investigation led to the publication of two news reports in ''JAMA'' and to a special series in the ''[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]'' titled "Death, Neglect and the Bottom Line." An article in August 2003 issue of ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'' by [[Wil S. Hylton]] describes how Skolnick was quickly fired by the AMA when Correctional Medical Services, one of the for-profit health care companies criticized in the articles, threatened ''JAMA'' and the ''Post-Dispatch'' with litigation.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hylton|first=Wil|title=Sick on the Inside: Correctional HMOs and the coming prison plague|url=http://www.wrongfuldeathinstitute.com/links/sickontheinside.htm|accessdate=20 March 2011|work=Harper's Magazine}}</ref> Unlike the AMA, the ''Post-Dispatch'' hired a law firm specializing in news media law to respond to the threat and nominated Skolnick and fellow reporters [[Kim Bell]] and Bill Allen for a [[Pulitzer Prize]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Skolnick resume pdf|url=http://www.aaskolnick.com/resume.pdf|accessdate=17 March 2011}}</ref>
===TM Law Suit===
In 1992, Skolnick, ''JAMA'' 's editor [[George D. Lundberg|George Lundberg]], and the AMA were sued for $194 million by [[Deepak Chopra]] and two [[Transcendental Meditation]] (TM) organizations over Skolnick's article titled, ''Maharishi Ayur-Veda: Guru's Marketing Scheme Promises the World Eternal "Perfect Health."''<ref>{{cite journal| title=Maharishi Ayur-Veda: Guru's Marketing Scheme Promises the World Eternal 'Perfect Health'| journal=JAMA| year=1991| volume=266| number=13| pages=1741-1750| doi=10.1001/jama.1991.03470130017003|accessdate=2013-11-14}}</ref> The suit alleged Skolnick's report on TM's health care products and services marketed under the trademarked name [[Maharishi Ayurveda]] was libelous and that it tortuously interfered with their business interests.<ref>The Lancaster Foundation, Inc., The American Association for Ayur-Vedic Medicine, Inc. vs. Andrew A. Skolnick, George D. Lundberg, M.D.; United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, No. 82 C 4175; Judge Charles P. Kocoras</ref>


In an August 1992 decision,<ref>Lancaster Foundation v Skolnick 21 Media Law Reporter, 1021 (ND Ill 1992)</ref> judge Charles Kocoras rejected the plaintiff’s motion to enjoin JAMA and Skolnick from publishing statements about [[Maharishi_Vedic_Approach_to_Health#Sharma_and_Chopra|Chopra and Hari Sharma]] and Maharishi Ayurveda alleged to be defamatory, noting that the plaintiffs did not allege that the statements about them in the article were false or misleading. The decision held that "plaintiffs have little likelihood of prevailing on the merits of their disparagement claim", and that the allegedly defamatory statements were protected as "fair comment and criticism" on an issue of public concern.<ref>McLain, Deckle, “A New Kind of Gag Order; Fortunately the Appeals Courts Don’t Like Them”, Communications and the Law 18 Com &Law 43 (1996)</ref><ref>Current Developments in Media Libel and Invasion of Privacy Law, Libel Defense Resource Center Vol 11 p 558 (1994)</ref><ref>Communications Law, Vol 2 (1994), Practicing Law Institute p 497</ref> Shortly thereafter, the case was dismissed without prejudice in March 1993.
Skolnick's reporting has received numerous awards from health, media, and humanitarian organizations, including [[World Hunger Year]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Harry Chapin Award|url=http://www.whyhunger.org/programs/89-hcma/709-harry-chapin-media-awards-1995.html|accessdate=20 March 2011}}</ref> the [[National Association of Community Health Centers]], the [[Carter Center Mental Health Program]], the [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry|Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal]], and other groups.<ref>{{cite web|title=Skolnick Awards|url=http://aaskolnick.com/new/awards.htm|accessdate=20 March 2011}}</ref> Skolnick, Bell, and Allen also received Amnesty International USA's "Spotlight on Media Award" and were honored by Harvard University's [[Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy]] as finalists for the [[Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting]]. The following year, the [[American Medical Writers Association]] awarded Skolnick the John P. McGovern Medical for Preeminence in Medical Communication.<ref>{{cite web|title=AMWA Award|url=http://www.amwa.org/default.asp?id=171|accessdate=20 March 2011}}</ref>


===CMS Law Suit===
According to Skolnick, some researchers feel that an [[alkaloid]] compound found in the Chinese herbal medicine Qian Ceng Ta could be more effective than some drugs approved by the U.S. [[Food and Drug Administration]] for the treatment of [[Alzheimer's disease]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Murray|first=Frank|title=100 super supplements for a longer life|page=191}}</ref> Skolnick has also written that the homeopathy industry has developed "from a historical curiosity into a $250-million-a-year scam".<ref>{{cite book|last=Ober|first=K. Patrick|title=Mark Twain and medicine: any mummery will cure|page=320}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=e23yJmT3mk0C&pg=PA320&lpg=PA320&dq=%22from+a+historical+curiosity+into+a+$250-million-a-year+scam%22&source=bl&ots=izMLmTFbop&sig=gwkeoCS6ptRe26Uytp23dzK0tQQ&hl=en&ei=7DKGTYbJIo_pgAfTx7zOCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22from%20a%20historical%20curiosity%20into%20a%20%24250-million-a-year%20scam%22&f=false|accessdate=20 March 2011|title=Mark Twain and Medicine}}</ref>
The AMA dismissed Skolnick when [[Correctional Medical Services]], one of the for-profit health care companies criticized in the ''Death, Neglect and the Bottom Line'' article, threatened ''JAMA'' and the ''Post-Dispatch'' with litigation.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hylton|first=Wil|title=Sick on the Inside: Correctional HMOs and the coming prison plague|url=http://www.wrongfuldeathinstitute.com/links/sickontheinside.htm|accessdate=20 March 2011|work=Harper's Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Miner|first=Michael|title=AMA Fires a Loose Cannon; Psst--Wanna Buy a Wire Service?|url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/ama-fires-a-loose-cannon-psst--wanna-buy-a-wire-service/Content?oid=897862|accessdate=2013-11-12|work=Chicago Reader}}</ref> The ''Post-Dispatch'' hired a defense team and submitted Skolnick and authors Kim Bell and Bill Allen for consideration for a [[Pulitzer Prize]].<ref>
{{citation|
newspaper=The Carter Center News|
title=Honors Abound for Mental Health Fellows|
date=Jan-Jun 1999|
pages=5|
url=http://www.cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/news/carter_center_news/Jan-June1999.pdf}}
</ref>


Skolnick also sued CMS, claiming their responses to the articles were defamatory, but a summary judgement ruled in favour of CMS, the defendants.<ref>{{cite web|title=SKOLNICK v. CORRECTIONAL MEDICAL SERVICES, INC.|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/20011248132FSupp2d1116_11134||accessdate=2013-11-12}}</ref>
Skolnick was co-recipient of the 2005 Robert P. Balles Prize in [[Critical thinking|Critical Thinking]], awarded by [[CSICOP]]. This prize is awarded to the author of "The published work that best exemplifies healthy skepticism, logical analysis or empirical science". The 2005 award was shared with authors [[Ray Hyman]] and [[Joe Nickell]]. Skolnick received the award for his article ''Natasha Demkina: The Girl with the Normal Eyes'' published in the series ''Testing the Girl with the X-Ray Eyes'' in ''[[Skeptical Inquirer]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Editor|journal=[[Skeptical Inquirer]]|year=2006|month=May/June|pages=13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Skolnick|first=Andrew|title=Natasha Demkina: The Girl with the Normal Eyes''|url=http://www.csicop.org/si/show/natasha_demkina_the_girl_with_normal_eyes/|publisher=[[Skeptical Inquirer]]|accessdate=2012-05-22|month=May/June|year=2005}}</ref>


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Andrew A. Skolnick
OccupationPhotographer, Journalist, Editor
EducationB.A., M.S.
Alma materColumbia University Graduate School of Journalism
GenreJournalism
SubjectScience
Notable awards1998 Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism;[1]
2000 AMWA John P. McGovern Award;[2]
2005 Robert P Balles Prize in Critical Thinking[3]
Website
www.aaskolnick.com


Andrew A. Skolnick is an American science and medical journalist and photographer best known for his investigative reporting on health care issues, alternative medicine, and paranormal claims.

Education and Career

In 1972, Skolnick participated in a two-year professional photography certificate program at the Paier College of Art, then received a B.A. from Charter Oak State College in 1978 and an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1981.

At Yale University, Skolnick was a scientific photographer in the biology department from 1975 to 1977, and a visiting lecturer teaching scientific photography from 1976-1977. His journalism experience began as a science writer for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation from 1981 to 1985, after which he served as the life sciences editor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign News Bureau from 1985 to 1987, the associate science news editor at the American Medical Association (AMA) from 1987 until 1989, and an associate news editor at the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

From 2004 to 2006, Skolnick served as the executive director of the Center for Inquiry's Commission on Scientific Medicine and Mental Health.[4]

In 1996, he was invited to China for a semester to teach western journalism at Shanghai International Studies University, where he also served as language adviser and script editor for Shanghai Television International Broadcasting Service.

In 1998, the Carter Center Mental Health Program awarded Skolnick with an inaugural Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism to investigate the treatment of jail and prison inmates with mental illness,[1] an investigation which led to the publication of two news reports in JAMA[5][6] and to a special series in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch titled Death, Neglect and the Bottom Line.[7][8][9][10]

Skolnick's reporting has received awards from health, media, and humanitarian organizations, including World Hunger Year, the National Association of Community Health Centers, the Carter Center Mental Health Program, and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Skolnick, Bell and Allen also received Amnesty International USA's "Spotlight on Media Award" and, in 1999, were listed by Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy as finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.[11] The following year, the American Medical Writers Association awarded Skolnick the 2000 John P. McGovern Medal for Preeminence in Medical Communication.[2]

For the Skeptical Inquirer series Testing the Girl with the X-Ray Eyes authors Ray Hyman, Joe Nickell, and Skolnick were co-recipients of CSI's 2005 Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking.[3] Skolnick's award was for the article Natasha Demkina: The Girl with the Normal Eyes.[12]

Since his retirement from journalism in 2006 Skolnick has focused on photography of dogs, and provides photography and web site design for dog clubs and breeders.[13]

Controversies

TM Law Suit

In 1992, Skolnick, JAMA 's editor George Lundberg, and the AMA were sued for $194 million by Deepak Chopra and two Transcendental Meditation (TM) organizations over Skolnick's article titled, Maharishi Ayur-Veda: Guru's Marketing Scheme Promises the World Eternal "Perfect Health."[14] The suit alleged Skolnick's report on TM's health care products and services marketed under the trademarked name Maharishi Ayurveda was libelous and that it tortuously interfered with their business interests.[15]

In an August 1992 decision,[16] judge Charles Kocoras rejected the plaintiff’s motion to enjoin JAMA and Skolnick from publishing statements about Chopra and Hari Sharma and Maharishi Ayurveda alleged to be defamatory, noting that the plaintiffs did not allege that the statements about them in the article were false or misleading. The decision held that "plaintiffs have little likelihood of prevailing on the merits of their disparagement claim", and that the allegedly defamatory statements were protected as "fair comment and criticism" on an issue of public concern.[17][18][19] Shortly thereafter, the case was dismissed without prejudice in March 1993.

CMS Law Suit

The AMA dismissed Skolnick when Correctional Medical Services, one of the for-profit health care companies criticized in the Death, Neglect and the Bottom Line article, threatened JAMA and the Post-Dispatch with litigation.[20][21] The Post-Dispatch hired a defense team and submitted Skolnick and authors Kim Bell and Bill Allen for consideration for a Pulitzer Prize.[22]

Skolnick also sued CMS, claiming their responses to the articles were defamatory, but a summary judgement ruled in favour of CMS, the defendants.[23]

References

  1. ^ a b "Rosalynn Carter Fellowship". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  2. ^ a b "John P. McGovern Award". Retrieved 2013-11-10.
  3. ^ a b "Balles Prize". CSICOP. Retrieved 2013-11-10.
  4. ^ "(CSI Author)Andrew Skolnick". Retrieved 2013-11-12.
  5. ^ "Prison Deaths Spotlight How Boards Handle Impaired, Disciplined Physicians". JAMA. 280 (16): 1387–1390. 1998. doi:10.1001/jama.280.16.1387. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  6. ^ "Critics Denounce Staffing Jails and Prisons With Physicians Convicted of Misconduct". JAMA. 280 (16): 1391–1392. 1998.
  7. ^ "Death, neglect and the bottom line.", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, pp. G1-3, Sept 27, 1998 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
  8. ^ "Prisoner, doctor who treated him, both had drug arrests.", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept 27, 1998 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
  9. ^ "Two key posts in Alabama were filled by doctors with checkered histories.", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept 27, 1998 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
  10. ^ "Physicians with troubled pasts have found work behind bars.", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept 27, 1998 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
  11. ^ "Goldsmith Prizes Awarded at KSG", The Harvard University Gazette, March 18, 1999
  12. ^ Skolnick, Andrew. "Natasha Demkina: The Girl with the Normal Eyes". Skeptical Inquirer. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
  13. ^ "Sample Web Work". Retrieved 2013-11-16.
  14. ^ "Maharishi Ayur-Veda: Guru's Marketing Scheme Promises the World Eternal 'Perfect Health'". JAMA. 266 (13): 1741–1750. 1991. doi:10.1001/jama.1991.03470130017003. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  15. ^ The Lancaster Foundation, Inc., The American Association for Ayur-Vedic Medicine, Inc. vs. Andrew A. Skolnick, George D. Lundberg, M.D.; United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, No. 82 C 4175; Judge Charles P. Kocoras
  16. ^ Lancaster Foundation v Skolnick 21 Media Law Reporter, 1021 (ND Ill 1992)
  17. ^ McLain, Deckle, “A New Kind of Gag Order; Fortunately the Appeals Courts Don’t Like Them”, Communications and the Law 18 Com &Law 43 (1996)
  18. ^ Current Developments in Media Libel and Invasion of Privacy Law, Libel Defense Resource Center Vol 11 p 558 (1994)
  19. ^ Communications Law, Vol 2 (1994), Practicing Law Institute p 497
  20. ^ Hylton, Wil. "Sick on the Inside: Correctional HMOs and the coming prison plague". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  21. ^ Miner, Michael. "AMA Fires a Loose Cannon; Psst--Wanna Buy a Wire Service?". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
  22. ^ "Honors Abound for Mental Health Fellows" (PDF), The Carter Center News, p. 5, Jan–Jun 1999{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  23. ^ "SKOLNICK v. CORRECTIONAL MEDICAL SERVICES, INC". Retrieved 2013-11-12. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

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