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Harriet Hall

Harriet Hall is a retired physician who lives in Puyallup, Washington, and writes about alternative medicine and pseudoscience for many skeptical magazines.

Playing by the Rules

Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.3, May / June 2009

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It is useless for skeptics to argue with someone who doesn’t play by the rules of science and reason.

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We’re Wrong More Than We Think

Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.5, September / October 2008

Book Review

Review of On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not by Robert Burton, MD

‘We Couldn’t Say It in Print If It Wasn’t True’: Akavar’s Version of Truth in Advertising

Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.5, September / October 2008

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An ad for a weight-loss product falsifies its own slogan by printing outright lies.

Gary Schwartz’s Energy Healing Experiments: The Emperor’s New Clothes?

Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.2, March / April 2008

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Gary Schwartz’s Energy Healing Experiments: The Emperor’s New Clothes?

Schwartz says his experiments reveal our natural power to heal based on our ability to sense and manipulate human energy fields.

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Masaru Emoto’s Wonderful World of Water

Skeptical Inquirer Volume 31.6, November / December 2007

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It can read, listen to music, look at pictures, hear your thoughts, heal you, and create world peace.

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Fix Your Ruptured Disk without Surgery?

Skeptical Inquirer Volume 31.5, September / October 2007

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The Truth behind the Ads

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Critical Chiropractor, Inept Publisher

Skeptical Inquirer Volume 30.6, November / December 2006

Book Review

The P.R.E.S.T.O.N. Protocol for Back Pain: The Seven Evidence-Based Practices for Living Pain-Free by Preston Long.

Teaching Pigs to Sing: An Experiment in Bringing Critical Thinking to the Masses

Skeptical Inquirer Volume 30.3, May / June 2006

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Teaching Pigs to Sing: An Experiment in Bringing Critical Thinking to the Masses

A skeptic encounters psychics, astrologers, and other strange creatures and discovers how they react to science and reason.

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Andrew Weil: Harvard Hatched a Gullible Guru

Skeptical Inquirer Volume 30.1, January / February 2006

Book Review

Review of Natural Health, Natural Medicine. By Andrew Weil.

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