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# Teller 

H. L. Mencken Research Fellow 

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Teller, H. L. Mencken research fellow, is the smaller, quieter half of Penn & Teller. He and Penn Jillette appear regularly in Las Vegas and cohosted a Showtime series that looked to debunk junk science, scares, and scams with reason and logic. He writes occasionally about freedom of speech.

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