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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 Belief Engine

The Belief Engine

by James Alcock
Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 19.3

Our brains and nervous systems are belief-generating machines, which evolved to assure not truth and reason, but survival.

The Klass Files Volume 33

by Philip J. Klass
Special Articles · The Skeptics UFO Newsletter
May 1, 1995

Articles from Volume 33

Remembering Dangerously

Remembering Dangerously

by Elizabeth Loftus
Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 19.2

People today are being imprisoned on 'evidence' provided by memories that didn't exist before therapy.

Risk Factor

Risk Factor

by Lewis Jones
Skeptical Briefs · Inklings · Volume 5.1

In London, there is a digital mechanism that changes its display every minute. (Call it the Bell Prompt if you like.)

Paranormal in China

by Wu Xianghong
Skeptical Briefs · Volume 5.1

Every evening in an open area furnished with several pine trees, I wander from the new library of our university...

Scientific Illiteracy in the Press

by Milton Rothman
Skeptical Briefs · Reality Check · Volume 5.1

I’m the first to admit it: I have not made a scientific, double-blind study of this phenomenon.