Dennis Rawlins

Dennis Rawlins is an American astronomer and historian who has acquired the reputation of skeptic primarily with respect to historical claims connected to astronomical considerations. He is known to the public mostly from prominent media coverage of his investigations of the two most, successful science hoaxes of the twentieth century. In his first book, Peary at the North Pole fact or fiction , Rawlins argued that Robert Peary never made it to the North Pole in 1909. His second book is the standard critical edition of Tycho Brahes 1598 catalogue of 1004 stars which detected ten star places faked partially or entirely. In 1976, as the only astronomer on the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, he looked into the socalled Mars effect. He later accused them of covering up evidence favoring the hypothesis after the Committee had fired him. In 1996 he made headlines when page one of the New York Times covered his report to Ohio State University which concluded that in 1926 Richard E. Byrds a

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