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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

Does Truth Matter? Science, Pseudoscience, and Civilization

by Carl Sagan
Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 20.2

Science has beauty, power, and majesty that can provide spiritual as well as practical fulfillment...

Psychics, Physics and Magnets

by Milton Rothman
Skeptical Briefs · Reality Check · Volume 6.1

A wonderful document has wafted its way across my desk. It is either a press release or a scientific abstract...

Improving Scientific Literacy

by Robert Baker
Skeptical Briefs · Book Review · Volume 6.1

Review of The Myth Of Scientific Literacy by Morris H. Shamos

Staking Claims: The Vampires of Folklore and Fiction

Staking Claims: The Vampires of Folklore and Fiction

by Paul Barber
Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 20.2

We know about Dracula and the would-be vampires in the news, but what were the “real” vampires all about?

Scientific Knowledge Is Money in the Bank

by Mark Boslough
Skeptical Inquirer · Forum · Volume 20.2

”Meteor Crater . . . the planet’s most penetrating natural attraction.”

Miracle Photographs

Miracle Photographs

by Joe Nickell
Skeptical Inquirer · Investigative Files · Volume 20.2

October 27, 1995, the television program "Unsolved Mysteries" aired a segment that included investigative work by CSICOP.