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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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The Klass Files Volume 36

by Philip J. Klass
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Articles from Volume 36

Mystical Medical Alternativism

Mystical Medical Alternativism

by Jack Raso
Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 19.5

Hundreds of mystical or supernaturalistic health treatment methods have been advanced in recent decades. Here are 31 of them.

The Haunted Tape Recorder

The Haunted Tape Recorder

by Joe Nickell
Skeptical Briefs · Investigative Files · Volume 5.3

As most people who own them know, tape recorders sometimes malfunction...

When World-Views Collide

by William Grey
Skeptical Briefs · Volume 5.3

What should skeptics do when pathological world-views collide?

China, Chi, and Chicanery: Examining Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chi Theory

by Peter Huston
Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 19.5

Traditional Chinese medicine is thousands of years old and has literally more than a billion satisfied customers.

Bad Science, Phony Science and Pseudoscience

by Milton Rothman
Skeptical Briefs · Reality Check · Volume 5.3

Sometimes the difference between real science and pseudoscience is so small that it is hard to tell which side you're looking at