255:"Robert Schadewald befriended Johnson (Charles Johnson, President of the International Flat Earth Research Society ca. 1971 until his death in 2001) and his wife Marjory, writing several articles on the movement that illustrated the intellectual history and themes linking the creationist movement with both flat-earth and geocentrist belief (see, for examples, Schadewald's "Looking for lighthouses" in Creation/Evolution 1992; 12 : 1-4 and his "The evolution of Bible-science" in Scientists Confront Creationism, ed. Laurie Godfrey, New York: WW Norton, 1983, 283-99)."
267:," which he considered a thinly disguised religious doctrine, out of public school science classrooms. In 1983 he began attending creationist conferences, attending six major conferences in addition to the 1986, 1990, 1994 and 1998 International Conference on Creationism. He reported on these with articles in the Skeptical Inquirer and Reports of the National Center for Science Education. From 1986 to 1992, he served on the board of directors of the
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Schadewald's search for works advocating unorthodox science or scholarship took him to dozens of major research libraries in United States and the United
Kingdom. Along the way, he also accumulated an extensive personal library. It consisted of about a thousand volumes advocating various unorthodox
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Schadewald was a nationally recognized expert on creationism, perpetual motion, and flat Earth belief. As an authority on pseudoscience, he appeared on radio talk shows in
Minneapolis, Des Moines, Chicago, Seattle, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia and on the "Pittsburgh Today" television talk show. He
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Schadewald also investigated several perpetual motion schemes and reported on them from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Some of the contemporary perpetual motionists that
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235:, flying saucers, bizarre religions, and so forth, as well as the world's most extensive collection of 19th and 20th century flat-earth literature. Much of this collection is now housed at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the Special Collections library as the
128:– March 12, 2000) was an author, researcher, and former president of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). An internationally recognized expert on pseudoscience, Schadewald penned numerous articles on
377:"He Knew Earth is Round, but His Proof Fell Flat," Smithsonian, April, pp. 101–113. (The history of a little-known wager between evolutionist Alfred Russel Wallace and flat-earther John Hampden.)
389:"Electricity That's Penny-Cheap? Inventor's Scheme Stirs Up a Perpetual Commotion," Minneapolis Star Saturday magazine, December 2. (Debunking Arnold Burke's machine with coauthor Deborah Weathers.)
350:"Flat-Earthism." In The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia, edited by Gary B. Ferngren. New York & London: Garland Publishing Inc., 2000.
347:"Geocentricity." In The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia, edited by Gary B. Ferngren. New York & London: Garland Publishing Inc., 2000.
417:"The Flat-Out Truth: Earth Orbits? Moon Landings? A Fraud! Says This Prophet," Science Digest, July, pp. 58–63. (Interview with president of Flat Earth Society.)
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Curious Shape?" Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, v. 4, n. 12 (December), pp. 97–106. (Some think the earth is flat or hollow.)
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world, the limitations of a theory-led approach, the duplicity of conventional scientists, and the impossibility of reconciling orthodox science with the Bible.
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Schadewald studied and wrote about unorthodox ideas and the people who promote them. He attended at least a dozen national creationism conferences, interviewed
465:"A Philosopher Rebuts Creationism," Minneapolis Tribune, December 26, p. 15D. (Review of Philip Kitcher's Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism.)
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1987: "The Flat-Earth Bible," Bulletin of the
Tychonian Society, n. 44 (July), pp. 27–39. (The Bible is a flat-earth book from Genesis to Revelation.)
442:"If Continents Can Wander, Why not Planets?," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, n. 5, n. 10 (September 28), pp. 84–95. (Critique of Velikovsky.)
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502:"The Missionary of Creationism," Skeptical Inquirer, v. 9, n. 3 (Spring), pp. 290–292. (Review of Henry Morris's History of Modern Creationism.)
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431:"Perpetual Motion for the Farm: Can We Get Something for Nothing?" Farm Energy, January, pp. 13–15. (Debunking perpetual motion schemes.)
187:, investigated perpetual motion machines, and got thrown out of the International Flat Earth Research Society for his "spherical" tendencies.
448:"Moon and Spencer and the Small Universe," Creation/Evolution, Spring, pp. 20–22. (Is the universe really only 15.7 light-years across?)
439:"Earth's Poles Don't Shift," Fate, October, pp. 114–120. (Debunking predictions of a catastrophic pole shift by the end of the century.)
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332:"Six 'Flood' Arguments Creationists Can't Answer." In Evolution vs. Creationism, edited by J. Peter Zetterberg. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1983.
622:"Electricity That's Penny-Cheap? Inventor's Scheme Stirs Up a Perpetual Commotion," Minneapolis Star Saturday magazine, December 2, 1978
491:"Reverend Carl Baugh's Dinosaur," Creation/Evolution Newsletter, v. 4, n. 6 (November/December), p. 19. (Creationist paleontology.)
428:"Recent Developments in Perpetual Motion," Skeptical Inquirer, Winter 1980–1981, pp. 25–33. (Debunking perpetual motion schemes.)
338:"Creationist Pseudoscience." In Scientists Confront the Paranormal, edited by Kendrick Frazier. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Press, 1986.
451:"Equal Time for Flat-Earth Science," Creation/Evolution, Winter, pp. 37–41. (A "model bill" to guarantee fairness in education.)
344:"The Flat-Earth Movement." In The Fringes of Reason: A Whole Earth Catalog, edited by Ted Schultz. New York: Harmony Books, 1989.
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524:"Gentry's Tiny Mystery," Creation/Evolution Newsletter, v. 7, n. 2 (March/April), p. 20. (Pleochroic haloes found in rocks.)
516:"The 1986 International Conference on Creationism," Creation/Evolution Newsletter, v. 6, n. 5 (September/October), pp. 8–14.
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329:"The Evolution of Bible-science." In Scientists Confront Creationism, edited by Laurie Godfrey. New York: W. W. Norton, 1983.
499:"Gish at the University of Minnesota," Creation/Evolution Newsletter, v. 5, n. 2 (March/April), pp. 15–16. (Creationism.)
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374:"If Electricity-through-Ground Idea Works, Power Could Be Dirt-Cheap," Minneapolis Star, June 6, p. 1C. (Teslamania.)
508:"Baugh's Dinosaur: Paleontology on the Paluxy," Skeptical Inquirer, v. 9, n. 4 (Summer), pp. 312–313. (Creationism.)
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Conference," Creation/Evolution Newsletter, v. 4, n. 3 (May/June), pp. 15–16.
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400:"Creationism: Palming Off Religious Dogma as Science," Minneapolis Star, April 4, 1979, p. 10A. (Guest editorial.)
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1978: "'What Goes Up' . . . Is Basis for a Breakthrough," Science Digest, April, pp. 10–11. (Perpetual motion.)
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445:"Scientific Creationism, Geocentricity, and the Flat Earth," Skeptical Inquirer, Winter 1981–1982, pp. 41–47.
335:"Devices that Count." In Humanizing the Computer, edited by Douglas Flaherty. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Inc., 1986.
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also gave guest lectures on writing and various aspects of pseudoscience at numerous colleges and universities.
527:"A Brief History of the Flat-Earth Movement," Bulletin of the Tychonian Society, n. 44 (July), pp. 13–17.
485:"America's Mystery Creatures," Vista USA, Winter 1984-1985, pp. 6–8. (A skeptical look at Bigfoot et al.)
406:"The Search for Noah's Ark: A Mountain of Evidence but No Answers," TWA Ambassador, November, pp. 30–32.
397:"The Hollow Earth Catalog," TWA Ambassador, April, pp. 39–43. (Review of pseudoscientific organizations.)
366:"The Plane Truth," TWA Ambassador, December, pp. 42–43. (Interview with president of Flat Earth Society.)
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386:"'Power-Magnifying Transmitter' Still a Mystery," Science Digest, December, pp. 37–41. (Teslamania.)
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1977: "David Lang Vanishes . . . Forever," Fate, November, pp. 54–60. (A phony mystery debunked.)
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1981: "Energy for Free," BMW Journal, January, pp. 45–48. (Debunking perpetual motion schemes.)
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383:"Metrication: Even Pyramid Power Won't Save the Sacred Inch," TWA Ambassador, August, pp. 78.
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459:"Six 'Flood' Arguments Creationists Can't Answer," Creation/Evolution, Summer, pp. 12–17.
420:"The Perpetual Quest," Science 80, November, p. 98. (Debunking perpetual motion schemes.)
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380:"Fortean Fakes and Folklore," Pursuit, Summer, pp. 98–100. (Phony mysteries debunked.)
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1986: "Scientific Creationism and Error," Creation/Evolution, v. 6, n. 1, pp. 1–9.
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