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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.

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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

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Something for Everyone at World Skeptics Congress

by Kendrick Frazier
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It began with a stirring live symphonic performance of Gustav Holst's The Planets...

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by Philip J. Klass
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Traditional Medicine and Pseudoscience in China: A Report of the Second CSICOP Delegation (Part 1)

by Barry L. Beyerstein and Wallace Sampson
Skeptical Inquirer · Special Report · Volume 20.4

The historical rationale for Traditional Chinese Medicine and the growing of these practices by Western practitioners.

Science or Pseudoscience? Pentagon Grant Funds Alternative Health Study

by Carla Selby and Bela Scheiber
Skeptical Inquirer · Special Report · Volume 20.4

$355,225 was awarded for a 'laying over of hands,' Therapeutic Touch study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

A View from Russia: Popularization of Science as a Tool against Antiscience

by Boris Shmakin
Skeptical Inquirer · Forum · Volume 20.4

In Russia, many parapsychologists, astrologers, and nontraditional doctors and are involved in pseudoscientific investigations.

A Wayward Way to Buddhist Spirituality

A Wayward Way to Buddhist Spirituality

by Joseph P. Szimhart
Skeptical Inquirer · Book Review · Volume 20.4

Many years ago I wrote to a Tibetan scholar, Nawang Tsering, for information about a mysterious manuscript—