After Resigning from CSETI, I Received a call from Someone Claiming to be from The New York Times. Joseph Burkes MD 2025 The journalist Alex Heard wrote what was considered to be a rather mean spirited 1994 “Outside” magazine article about the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). When it was published, I had been CSETI contact team coordinator for two years and was on the CSETI Board of Directors. In 1998 when I received a call from Mr. Heard, he mentioned that he wa...