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Steven Novella at a 2013 skeptics conference.

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Steven Novella is a clinical neurologist and assistant professor at the Yale University School of Medicine. In addition, he is a medical advisor to the organization Quackwatch, serves as an associate editor of the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine, and he is the executive editor of the blog Science-Based Medicine.

Novella is a prominent atheist/agnostic/skeptic who co-founded the New England Skeptical Society and he serves as their president. The organization's podcast, The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is popular within the skeptical movement. He also participated in the pro-evolution campaign called Project Steve and was one of the first 200 people to contribute the project as a signer.

Excess weight challenges

Medical science has documented a number of deleterious effects of being overweight and/or obese. Yet, there are several pictures posted on the internet of Novella where he exhibits possessing excess weight. For example, in 2011 at TAM9 (a global conference of skeptics), a picture was taken of Steven Novella where he is bending over a table and his excess abdominal weight appears to be hanging over his belt as can be seen HERE and HERE. Other pictures where Novella appears to have excess weight can be seen and HERE and HERE and HERE.

See also

• Atheism and obesity
• The Surgeon General of Atheism and excess weight! - satire

External link

• Dr. Steven Novella's Challenge: "Prove Me Wrong, Egnor"! - Critique of Steven Nova's claims about the mind-brain issue