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Up Your Nose with a Rubber Hose: My 30 Minutes at an Oxygen Bar

May 2013

They will deliver us pure oxygen—double the amount we usually get in the air! It helps cure hangovers. It ends fatigue. It helps with muscle pain and weakness. It curbs jet lag. It dissolves headaches. Some places make even loftier claims about oxygen bars, like that they can help halt cancer or aid chi flow.

Flawed Look at Monsters

Skeptical Inquirer

May 2013

The intent of Medusa’s Gaze and Vampire’s Bite is to provide scientific explanations for various monsters found in historical legend and literature up through the monsters of today as seen, mostly, in film. Had Kaplan succeeded in this task, he would have produced an exciting and interesting book.

Magnet People: How Do They Work?

Reductio ad Absurdum

May 2013

The first in a hopefully fun and informative series of columns, I want to kick-off Reductio ad Absurdum with a look at so-called “magnetic people.” As will be the case for all the columns, never mind that there is no evidence for these gaussy guys and gals, what would the world be like if people really did generate a noticeable or even intense magnetic field?

Bigfoot Club Skeptic

May 2013

I became the “skeptic” member of the local Bigfoot group almost by chance. I owe the offer to join to the reality TV show “Finding Bigfoot” (they never actually do). The show, featuring perennial Bigfoot personality Matt Moneymaker, has a skeptic, Ranae Holland.

Skeptics Organize in Indonesia

May 2013

Every day in Indonesia you will hear or see psychics, paranormalists, parapsychologists, and pseudoscientists spreading, scaring, and scamming the nation with irrational beliefs and pseudoscience through the media. You will be able to see them planting thoughts into peoples’ heads so that they can offer solutions and take people's money.

Uncovering Secret Messages

Skeptical Briefs

April 2013

Among my many interests as a boy was cryptography—the study of codes, ciphers, and other secret writings. I sent and received nighttime Morse code messages by flashlight between neighbors’ houses and mine, made and solved cryptograms, used my forensic chemistry lab to make various invisible inks and developers, and even compiled a treatise on the subject.

“Phenomenology” Paranormal Conference Shows Shift from Sciencey to Spiritual

Sounds Sciencey

April 2013

When paranormal investigators give up on sciencey stuff, what's the alternative? The spiritual. I take you on a tour of a recent paranormal convention.

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

The mission of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry is to promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims.

The FDA is giving serious consideration to our petition to require that all over-the-counter homeopathic drugs meet the standards of effectiveness applicable to non-homeopathic drugs. Read the letter from the FDA »

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Now Online: Skeptical Inquirer Volume 37.1

Skeptical Inquirer Volume 37.1 Cover

January/February 2013

Selected articles by:

Eve Siebert
Joe Nickell
John Franch
Massimo Polidoro
Robert Sheaffer

Latest Articles

The Klass Files Volume 46

by Philip J. Klass

Special Articles · The Skeptics UFO Newsletter

July 1, 1997

Articles from Volume 46

Art Bell, Heaven’s Gate, and Journalistic Integrity

by Thomas G. Genoni Jr.

Skeptical Inquirer · Special Report · Volume 21.4

Following the Heaven's Gate suicides, we learned that talk of a UFO trailing Hale-Bopp may have contributed to the suicides.

What Really Happened at Roswell

by Kal K. Korff

Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 21.4

The Roswell UFO crash "mystery" has now been solved. No extraterrestrial spacecraft was involved.

Examining the Amazing Free-Energy Claims of Dennis Lee

by Eric Krieg

Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 21.4

Hundreds of investors believed Dennis Lee’s claim of a free-energy machine. A closer look is in order.

UFO Mythology: The Escape to Oblivion

by Paul Kurtz

Skeptical Inquirer · Special Report · Volume 21.4

Why would thirty-nine seemingly gentle and earnest people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, voluntarily commit collective suicide?

The Carl Sagan Memorial Service

by Warren Allen Smith

Skeptical Inquirer · News & Comment · Volume 21.4

An atheist’s memorial service held in a cathedral? Yes, Carl Sagan’s was held February 27 at New York City’s Cathedral...

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