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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 27

by Philip J. Klass
Special Articles · The Skeptics UFO Newsletter
May 1, 1994

Articles from Volume 27

The Klass Files Volume 26

by Philip J. Klass
Special Articles · The Skeptics UFO Newsletter
March 1, 1994

Articles from Volume 26

A Celebration of Isaac Asimov: A Man for the Universe

by Carl Sagan
Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 17.1

Isaac Asimov was one of the great explainers of the age. Like T. H. Huxley, he was motivated by profoundly democratic...

Subliminal Tapes: How to Get the Message Across

Subliminal Tapes: How to Get the Message Across

by Brady J. Phelps and Mary E. Exum
Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 16.3

Pseudoscience is alive and well. One reason for this is that members of the scientific community do a poor job...

The Cargo-Cult Science of Subliminal Persuasion

The Cargo-Cult Science of Subliminal Persuasion

by Anthony R. Pratkanis
Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 16.3

Imagine that it is the late 1950s-a time just after the Korean War, when terms like brainwashing and mind control were...

Subliminal Perception: Facts and Fallacies

by Timothy E. Moore
Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 16.3

Can the meaning of a stimulus affect the behavior of observers in some way in the absence of their awareness of the stimulus?