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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.

Don’t Burn Your Bra for Science Just Yet

April 2013

There are many ways a science news story can hit the mainstream media and become a viral hit: does it involve an adorable, terrifying, or adorably terrifying new species of animal? Did a politician say something hilariously ignorant about it? And perhaps more importantly, does it involve breasts?

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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

Bra Hazards, Carpet Circles, Lunar Aliens, and Adam’s Animals

by Robert Sheaffer

Skeptical Inquirer · Psychic Vibrations · Volume 19.6

Researchers looking into the causes of breast cancer may have overlooked the most obvious cause of all: the wearing of bras.

Eyewitness Testimony and the Paranormal

Eyewitness Testimony and the Paranormal

by Richard Wiseman, Matthew Smith, and Jeff Wisman

Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 19.6

Much of the evidence relating to paranormal phenomena consists of eyewitness testimony...

“Alien Autopsy” Hoax

“Alien Autopsy” Hoax

by Joe Nickell

Skeptical Inquirer · Investigative Files · Volume 19.6

It keeps going and going and...

The Klass Files Volume 36

by Philip J. Klass

Special Articles · The Skeptics UFO Newsletter

November 1, 1995

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...

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