Robert L. Park

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Robert L. (Bob) Park is a professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park and was associated with the American Physical Society. Park is most noted for his commentaries on pseudoscience such as telepathy and homeopathy in his popular book Voodoo Science. He is also seen in the media as an outspoken critic of manned spaceflight, efforts to colonize space, and the prototype U.S. National Missile Defense. He was the one who criticized Dennis Lee's claims that he had invented a device from which he could extract "free-energy" which violates the conservation of energy principle.

Park writes a weekly column, What's New, which features discussions on topics such as science news, space exploration, energy, the government in science, pseudoscience, the creationism versus evolution debate, and nuclear weapons.