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