Gordon Stein (April 30, 1941 – August 27, 1996)[1] was an American author, physiologist, and activist for atheism and religious skepticism.
[1] He was an author of books for secular humanist and rationalist publications, he also was a critic of claims of paranormal phenomena.
He served as editor of the American Rationalist and was the librarian of the Center for Inquiry, which houses both the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) and the Council for Secular Humanism (CSH).
Stein suspected that Crookes was too ashamed to admit he had been duped by the medium Florence Cook, or that he had conspired with her for sexual favors.
In a review, biographer William Hodson Brock wrote that Stein made his "case against Crookes and Home clearly and logically.