2026-10-04 Skeptical Inquirer / Center for Inquiry

Query (Google): "Skeptical Inquirer" 1994 "Strange Legacy of Nikola Tesla" Jeff Johnson Found: Jeff Johnson, "'Extraordinary Science' and the Strange Legacy of Nikola Tesla", Skeptical Inquirer vol. 18 no. 4, Summer 1994, p. 366 ff. Article page https://skepticalinquirer.org/1994/07/ ... ; PDF https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1994/07/22165128/p32.pdf (saved: research/files/SkepticalInquirer-1994-Johnson-Tesla.pdf, 6 pp.). Same issue has "Nikola Tesla: Genius, Visionary, and Eccentric". [web]

Bears on the side article "Tesla and the Science Cops" (claim 6): this is the piece Mallove rebuts; the reviewers can now read Johnson's own text rather than Mallove's account. Johnson (address Littleton, CO; electrical engineer, Rocky Mountain Skeptics board) reports on the International Tesla Society's Extraordinary Science Conference in Colorado Springs; he describes Tesla-coil displays, a "Violet Ray" device, ozone generators, and lists "Zero-Point Energy", "Scalar Magnetic Field" and other "brands of extraordinary physics", writing "All are in conflict with conventional physics". [web] (CSICOP is an interested party in the sense of an organisation devoted to criticising such claims; its characterization is reported as its own.)