The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry promotes science and scientific inquiry, critical thinking, science education, and the use of reason in examining important issues. It encourages the critical investigation of controversial or extraordinary claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and disseminates factual information about the results of such inquiries to the scientific community, the media, and the public.
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 40.4 —
July/August 2016
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Did Joseph Smith Predict Doomsday?
by Benjamin Radford
Skeptical Briefs · Volume 26.1
My inclusion of Joseph Smith as a failed doomsday prophet was not intended to disparage the Mormon faith but instead a historical fact based on Smith’s own writings.
A Guide to Ghost Hunting Guidebooks: NO MORE! Please! (Part 1)
by Sharon Hill
Skeptical Briefs · Book Review · Volume 26.1
No ghost handbook has ever led anyone to catch and identify ghosts; they can only lead you to interpret something as a ghost.
Otherwordly: Mysteries of Newfoundland and Labrador
by Joe Nickell
Skeptical Briefs · Investigative Files · Volume 26.1
According to the tale, if one were driving at night from Deer Lake toward the city of Corner Brook one might encounter “a woman in a white dress.”
Twice the Skepticism: An Interview with the Evil Twins
by Gurmukh Mongia
Skeptical Briefs · Skeptical Podcasts · Volume 26.1
The Evil Twin Podcast is a loosely structured show involving twins Brad and Thad exploring, as they put it, the strange underbelly of “belief” in American culture and what it means to identify with various beliefs.
The Great New Mexico Elk Murder Conspiracy
by Benjamin Radford
Skeptical Briefs · Volume 25.4
Livestock deaths, by themselves, are not unusual—there are many things that can fell large animals in our desert climes, including predators, poachers, a natural or man-made toxin, disease, drought, heat, starvation, and even lightning.
The Jamestown Evolution/Creationism Debate
by Norman Carlson
Skeptical Briefs · Volume 25.4
I have no sympathy for creationism. By 1999, I had had enough of its low quality claims and tracts, and I attacked it in one of my letters in the paper. Creationists responded more tenaciously than liberals had responded to my conservative statements. They wouldn’t let go, and neither would I.
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