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New Articles from Skeptical Inquirer Volume 35.5
September/October 2011
Selected articles by:
What's New?
Controversies in Science and Fringe Science: From Animals and SETI to Quackery and SHC
by Lys Ann Shore
Skeptical Inquirer · News & Comment · Volume 12.1
We asked Lys Ann Shore, who writes frequently for our News and Comment section, to cover the 1987 conference...
The Burden of Skepticism
by Carl Sagan
Skeptical Inquirer · Feature · Volume 12.1
What is skepticism? It's nothing very esoteric. We encounter it every day. When we buy a used car, if we are the least bit...
The Great East Coast UFO of August 1986
by James Oberg
Skeptical Inquirer · Feature · Volume 10.4
An Illuminating UFO case raises several interesting points.
Night Walkers and Mystery Mongers: Sense and Nonsense at the Edge of Science
by Carl Sagan
Skeptical Inquirer · Feature · Volume 10.3
In Greece of the second century A.D., during the reign of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, there lived a master con man...
The Nazca Drawings Revisited: Creation of a Full-Sized Duplicate
by Joe Nickell
Skeptical Inquirer · Feature · Volume 7.3
Re-creation of a 440-foot Nazca figure on a Kentucky field shows how the Peruvian drawings were most likely made.
Space Travel in Bronze Age China?
by David N. Keightley
Skeptical Inquirer · Feature · Volume 3.1
Ancient monuments, cave drawings, texts, and legends have been cited by many "UFOlogists" to show that visitors from...