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New Articles from Skeptical Inquirer Volume 35.5
September/October 2011
Selected articles by:
What's New?
Review of Syfy’s Fact or Faked
by Rebecca Watson
Skepchick
January 31, 2012
According to its website, FoFPF (pronounced: "fawf-pfffff") "revolutionizes paranormal programming by investigating the evidence witnesses post on the Internet every day." Finally, someone is paying attention to "amateur paranormal researchers" who post fuzzy videos on YouTube!
Wings over the Woodford Folk Festival
by Kylie Sturgess
Curiouser and Curiouser
January 25, 2012
Protesting by Plane with the Stop The Anti-Vaccination Network
Indonesian Skeptic Puts Psychic Powers to the Test
by Lukas Dion Pradityo
January 18, 2012
The following is a report of an investigation conducted after learning of four local individuals with claimed psychic abilities. Pradityo asked each of the claimants to bring their own magical object for the test, performed double-blind tests of the claimants’ abilities, and reported back to us.
“Scientific”: It’s just a catchphrase!
by Sharon Hill
Sounds Sciencey
January 17, 2012
Science is all these things: a process, a way of looking at a topic, a community, an infrastructure, a career, a set of results, an authority, and more. We can use the word in many ways. That means it can be abused in many ways as well.
The Winchester Mystery House
by Karen Stollznow
The Good Word
December 29, 2011
This is another of the “Most Haunted Houses in America,” but this isn’t so much a paranormal story as one about a woman whose life was reputedly ruled and ruined by belief in the paranormal.
On Stanislaw Burzynski, the Streisand Effect, and Standing Up for Skeptical Bloggers
by Kylie Sturgess
Curiouser and Curiouser
December 19, 2011
An Interview with Andy Lewis of Quackometer