Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner is author of more than seventy books, most recently The Jinn from Hyperspace and When You Were a Tadpole and I was a Fish, and Other Speculations About This and That.
Swedenborg and Dr. Oz
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 34.5, September/October 2010
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
It is not widely known that Oz has been profoundly influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish Protestant fundamentalist who, late in life, became...
Oprah Winfrey: Bright (but Gullible) Billionaire
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 34.2, March / April 2010
Article
There are two Oprah Winfreys. One is the African-American woman who struggled against incredible odds in abject poverty to become the wealthiest, most...
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James Arthur Ray: New Age Guru and Sweat Lodge Culprit
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 34.2, March / April 2010
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
In recent years Sedona, Arizona, has become a popular haven for New Age cults of all shades. Why Sedona? Partly because of its superb scenery and sunlight,...
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Thomas Gold: Is the Origin of Oil Nonbiological?
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 34.1, January / February 2010
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
Thomas Gold was born in Vienna in 1920 and died in Ithaca, New York, in 2004 at age eighty-four. Few scientists since Kepler have combined such brilliant...
Bill Maher: Crank and Comic
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.6, November / December 2009
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
Well-known stand-up comic Bill Maher has joined the ranks of the Big-D atheists, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett...
Bobby Fischer: Genius and Idiot
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.5, September / October 2009
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
Is it possible for someone to be extremely intelligent and creative in a certain field and at the same time...
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Mr. Belloc Objects
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.6, November / December 2008
Comment and Opinion
The Battered Silicon Press, a Canadian publishing house, has brought back into print an obscure little book by H.G. Wells...
A Special Afterword
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Special Report
A special afterword to Hyman's report
Arthur C. Clarke Remembered
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.4, July / August 2008
Featurette
Martin Gardner remembers Arthur C. Clarke.
Ann Coulter Takes on Darwin
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.3, May / June 2008
Book Review
Review of Ann Coulter's Godless
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The Comic Pratfalls of Richard Roberts
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
News & Comment
In November 2007, Oral Roberts's singing son Richard, age fifty-nine, resigned as president of Tulsa's Oral Roberts University.
The Strange Case of Frank Jennings Tipler
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
Book Review
Review of The Physics of Christianity by Frank Tipler
‘Dr.’ Bearden’s Vacuum Energy
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 31.1, January / February 2007
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
One of the strangest books ever written about modern physics was published in 2002, and reprinted two years later.
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The Memory Wars: Parts 2 and 3
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 30.2, March / April 2006
Article
Most of the cases against priests for sexual abuse against young parishioners are supported by full confessions...
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The Memory Wars
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 30.1, January / February 2006
Article
It was a tragic mental health scandal: accusations resulting from supposedly long-repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse.
Multiverses and Blackberries
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 25.5, September / October 2001
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
The philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce somewhere remarked that unfortunately universes are not as plentiful as blackberries...
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher: Distant Healing and Elisabeth Targ
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 25.2, March / April 2001
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
Gardner recalls the paranormal claims of Elisabeth Targ
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher: The Second Coming of Jesus
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 24.1, January / February 2000
Martin Gardner on fringe-watching
The Star of Bethlehem
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 23.6, November / December 1999
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
As Christmas approaches, churches will be celebrating the birth of Jesus, with many references to the Star of Bethlehem.
What’s Going On At Temple University?
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 22.5, September / October 1998
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
In recent years Temple University has become a center for the promulgation of some of the wildest aspects of pseudoscience.
Doug Henning and the Giggling Guru
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 19.3, May / June 1995
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
In the 1970s, Doug James Henning’s Magic Show ran on Broadway for more than four years.
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