# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-alcock
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:25:36.576Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-alcock"
name: "James Alcock"
slug: "james-alcock"
description: "James E. Alcock is professor emeritus (Psychology) at York University (Canada). Alcock is a noted critic of parapsychology and a Fellow and Member of the Executive Council for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a member of the editorial board of The Skeptical Inquirer, and a frequent contributor to the magazine. He has also been a columnist for Humanist Perspectives Magazine. In 1999, a panel of skeptics named him among the two dozen most outstanding skeptics of the 20th century. In May 2004, CSICOP awarded Alcock CSI's highest honor, the In Praise of Reason Award. The author of several books and peer-reviewed journal articles, Alcock is also an amateur magician and a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians."
tagline: "Professor emeritus of psychology; noted critic of parapsychology; Fellow, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Alcock.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-12-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.097560975609756
  historical:           4.811988
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump