Joe Nickell
Joe Nickell, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) and "Investigative Files" Columnist for Skeptical Inquirer. A former stage magician, private investigator, and teacher, he is author of numerous books, including Inquest on the Shroud of Turin (1998), Pen, Ink and Evidence (2003), Unsolved History (2005) and Adventures in Paranormal Investigation (2007). He has appeared in many television documentaries and has been profiled in The New Yorker and on NBC's Today Show. His personal website is at joenickell.com.
“Is Anybody There?”
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
June 3, 2009
Movie with Michael Caine skirts the Great Beyond.Available in the Print Edition. Subscribe Here.
Cardiff’s Giant Hoax
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.3, May / June 2009
Book Review
Review of A Colossal Hoax: The Giant from Cardiff that Fooled America by Scott Tribble
Demons in Connecticut
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.3, May / June 2009
Investigative Files
Take a house reeking of death, bring in a "demonologist," commission a professional writer to enhance the alleged events...
The Image of Edessa Revealed
Skeptical Briefs Volume 19.2, June 2009
Investigative Files
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Among certain reputedly miraculous images of Jesus was the Image of Edessa, known later to the Byzantines as the Mandylion.
Debunkers Launch “Great UFO Hoax”
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
May 26, 2009
Fooling UFO believers is a double-edged sword.Tribute to James Randi (with Humor at My Expense)
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
May 22, 2009
Escape artist turned world’s skeptic, Randi was adored at conference.UFOs: Unending Friedman Outrages
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
May 13, 2009
Saucer conspiracy theorist uses illogic, name calling, and worse.Tearful effigies are pious (and not so pious) frauds.
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
May 6, 2009
Another "Weeping" IconNot-so-Psychic Sylvia Browne
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
April 23, 2009
Infamous “psychic” continues to refuse scientific testingLatest “Shroud” Pseudohistory
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
April 14, 2009
Notorious Shroud of Turin is still a painted fake.“Vampire” Unearthed
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
April 8, 2009
Archaeological dig reveals seventeenth century exorcism of a "vampire."Demonizing in Connecticut
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
March 27, 2009
Psychics Blind in Investment Scandal
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
March 25, 2009
Buffalo-area "psychics" fail to foresee doomUS Government’s UFOs
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
March 18, 2009
UFOs become IFOs--from the U.S. government.Levy Case a Psychic Failure
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
March 10, 2009
"Psychics" useless in Chandra Levy caseThe New Snake Oil
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
March 4, 2009
Alternative Medicine: acupuncture or quackapuncture?Searching for Vampire Graves
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.2, March / April 2009
Investigative Files
It should not be surprising that there have been instances of reputed vampirism in the United States.
Cagliostro: ‘Quack of Quacks’
Skeptical Briefs Volume 19.1, March 2009
Investigative Files
While on a five-country investigative tour of Europe in 2007, I twice came upon historic residences of the master deceiver...
Pope’s ‘Holy War’ Against Pseudo-Mystics
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
February 24, 2009
Pope’s "Holy War" Against Pseudo-Mystics New guidelines to employ science, dogma, superstition.Friday the Thirteenth
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
February 12, 2009
The supposedly jinxed date is just another day.Miracle on the Hudson
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
February 10, 2009
A "miraculous" rescue is actually nothing of the sort.Haunted Wedding Dress
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
February 4, 2009
Pennsylvania mansion’s animated gown has rational explanation.Bigfoot Bozos
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January 28, 2009
Georgia “clowns” ineptly reprise frozen-Sasquatch hoax.‘Witch’ Killings Continue
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
January 23, 2009
"Witch" killings continue with the burning of a suspected witch in Papua New Guinea, a delusion continues.“Miraculous Elián” Returns?
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
January 9, 2009
The controversy over Elián Gonzáles--who was once deemed miraculous--is to resume during attorney general confirmation hearings.Return to Roswell
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.1, January / February 2009
Investigative Files
The crash of a UFO near Roswell, New Mexico has been explained as something much more mundane: a balloon-borne device.
Joe Nickell Exorcises the Nonsense out of Reverend Larson
December 29, 2008
CNN Interview with Joe Nickell and Reverend Bob Larsen
