Skeptical Inquirer
Skeptical Inquirer is the official journal of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Six times per year Skeptical Inquirer publishes critical scientific evaluations of paranormal and fringe-science claims and informed discussion of all relevant issues. In addition to news, articles, book reviews, and investigations on a wide variety of topics, Skeptical Inquirer has a stellar stable of regular columnists including Joe Nickell (“Investigative Files”), Massimo Polidoro (“Notes on a Strange World”), Massimo Pigluicci (“Thinking About Science”), Robert Sheaffer (“Psychic Vibrations”), and SI managing editor Benjamin Radford's reader-driven (“The Skeptical Inquiree”). Former Scientific American columnist and polymath Martin Gardner also contributes an occasional column titled “Notes of a Fringe-Watcher.”
Psychic Defective: Sylvia Browne’s History of Failure
by Ryan Shaffer and Agatha Jadwiszczok
Volume 34.2, March / April 2010
Feature
The most extensive study of alleged psychic Sylvia Browne’s predictions about missing persons and murder cases reveals a strange discrepancy: despite her...
The Mystery of the Moving Tombstone
by Massimo Polidoro
Volume 34.2, March / April 2010
Notes on a Strange World
Dutch police experts gather around a TV screen. They are watching footage from a hidden camera that was positioned to monitor a supposed case of vandalism at...
John Edward: Spirit Huckster
by Joe Nickell
Volume 34.2, March / April 2010
Investigative Files
“Psychic medium” John Edward is reemerging from relative obscurity after his popular television show, Crossing Over with John Edward, ended in...
Our Deliberate Slide into Ignorance
by Keith Taylor
Volume 34.2, March / April 2010
Book Review
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles Pierce
Things We Know That Are Not So
by Peter Lamal
Volume 34.2, March / April 2010
Book Review
50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior by Scott O. Lilienfeld, et al.
Disinformation about Global Warming
by David Morrison
Volume 34.2, March / April 2010
Feature
Most arguments from global warming disputers don’t make scientific sense or are based on distorted or obsolete information. Here are short answers to ten of...
Oprah Winfrey: Bright (but Gullible) Billionaire
by Martin Gardner
Volume 34.2, March / April 2010
Feature
There are two Oprah Winfreys. One is the African-American woman who struggled against incredible odds in abject poverty to become the wealthiest, most...
Mann Bites Dog: Why ‘Climategate’ Was Newsworthy
by Mark Boslough
Volume 34.2, March / April 2010
Feature
“When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.”
The War of the Weasels
by Dave Thomas
Volume 34.3, May / June 2010
Online Extra
Or “How an Intelligent Design Theorist was Bested in a Public Math Competition by a Genetic Algorithm!”
Review of “Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be” by Daniel Loxton
by Ben Radford
Volume 34.3, May / June 2010
Online Extra
Two very different books about evolution crossed my desk recently. The first, by Richard Dawkins, is titled The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence...