James Underdown, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetJames Underdown
American skeptic
Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1960
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About James Underdown
- James "Jim" Underdown has been the executive director of The Center for Inquiry (CFI) Los Angeles since 1999.
- The Center for Inquiry is a non-profit educational organization with headquarters in Amherst, New York, whose primary mission is to foster a secular society based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values.
- CFI Los Angeles is the largest branch in the organization outside Amherst.Underdown founded the Independent Investigations Group (IIG), a volunteer-based organization, in January 2000 at the Center for Inquiry-West (now Center for Inquiry-Los Angeles) in Hollywood, California.
- The IIG investigates fringe science, paranormal and extraordinary claims from a rational, scientific viewpoint, and disseminates factual information about such inquiries to the public.
- There are Independent Investigation Groups in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Denver, and Alberta, Canada.
- Altogether, the Independent Investigations Groups are the largest paranormal investigations team in the world.The IIG offers $100,000 to anyone who can prove paranormal or supernatural ability under test conditions, and has in the past administered preliminary demonstrations for the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) $1,000,000 Paranormal Challenge.Underdown is a 1982 graduate of DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where he received his B.A.
- in English with an emphasis in composition.
- He was also the starting defensive end for the DePauw Tiger football team which recorded a 9–1 record in 1981.
- Between 1982 and 1999, he worked as a school teacher, truck driver, painter, limo driver, hotel clerk, furniture mover, football coach, carpenter, and bouncer.
- In the late 1970s, Underdown tried to win a $500 prize by wrestling a bear .
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