Kendrick Frazier
Kendrick Frazier is editor of the Skeptical Inquirer and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is editor of several anthologies, including Science Under Siege: Defending Science, Exposing Pseudoscience.
Tributes to Steve Schneider
August 2, 2010
Noted climate scientist Stephen H. Schneider of Stanford University died July 19, 2010, of an apparent heart attack while traveling in London.
Reading, the New Media, and the New Skepticism: What’s Going On?
January 6, 2010
If you are anything like me, reading is an essential part of life itself. For my generation, newspapers, books, and magazines...
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Notes on the News: Deception, Notoriety, and Credulity in Our Infotainment Age
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 34.1, January / February 2010
News & Comment
The media frenzy about a homemade balloon launch supposedly carrying a Fort Collins, Colorado, family's six-year old son into the sky and the resulting...
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The Scourge of Cancer
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 34.1, January / February 2010
Editor's Note
I doubt there are many families not affected in some way by the subject of our cover article—cancer.
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Pew/AAAS Poll: Public Likes Science but Still Disagrees with Scientists on Controversial Issues
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.6, November / December 2009
News & Comment
The public continues to like science and value scientists, but a new poll shows considerable gaps between how scientists...
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Nigerian Scam Mastermind Sentenced in Australia
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.6, November / December 2009
News & Comment
We've all seen the e-mails from Nigeria insisting wealth can be ours if we help the writer get his money out of the country.
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Introducing Skepticism 2.0
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.6, November / December 2009
Editor's Note
There's nothing new about skepticism. People who think critically and analytically have been around since ancient times.
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Cell Phones, Power Lines, Video Games…and Much Else
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.5, September / October 2009
Editor's Note
This issue demonstrates not only the variety of topics we tackle in the Skeptical Inquirer, but also...
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John Maddox, Longtime Nature Editor and CSI Fellow, Dies
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.4, July / August 2009
News & Comment
John Maddox, a pivotal figure in the world scientific community as twice editor of the esteemed scientific journal...
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Nonreligious Portion of U.S. Population Growing, Survey Finds
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.4, July / August 2009
News & Comment
What many secularists have long been contending--that their numbers are growing, and have consistently been underestimated...
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Big Scientific Controversy over Little Hobbit People of Flores
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.4, July / August 2009
Editor's Note
Five years ago a stunning discovery on the Indonesian island of Flores rocked the field of paleoanthropology...
Highlights of CFI’s Twelfth World Congress: Science, Public Policy, and the Planetary Community
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.4, July / August 2009
Special Report
Science, Public Policy, and the Planetary Community
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It’s What We Do
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.3, May / June 2009
Editor's Note
"Why did you write about [fill in the blank]?" That is a recurring question we get at the Skeptical Inquirer.
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Life and Planet
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.3, May / June 2009
Feature
Evolution, Climate Change. Two Grand Themes of AAAS Science Fest.
Scientists Hail Gallo’s ‘Unsung’ Role in Nobel HIV/AIDS Discovery
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.3, May / June 2009
News & Comment
When the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to two French virologists for discovering and identifying the HIV virus...
More Studies Reject Vaccine-Autism Link
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.3, May / June 2009
News & Comment
As if more scientific support was needed, a new review of the evidence has again shown no link between vaccines and autism.
Science, Reason, and the Obama Administration
April 21, 2009
Commentary to appear in the March/April 2009 Skeptical Inquirer
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Darwin
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.2, March / April 2009
Editor's Note
You are going to be hearing a lot about Charles Darwin this year. Deservedly so. February 12 was his 200th birthday...
Science, Reason, and the Obama Administration
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.2, March / April 2009
Comment and Opinion
The Obama White House could hardly have a more distinguished set of people in the key science positions.
Lessons about Burdens on American Cryptology
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.2, March / April 2009
Featurette
The Winds message controversy does have lessons about burdens and pressures on pre-war American cryptology.
The Pearl Harbor ‘Winds Message’ Controversy: A New Critical Evaluation
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.2, March / April 2009
Feature
A new investigation by the NSA confirms that a Japanese message was not heard until after the attack on Pearl Harbor began.
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Discovery of HIV Nets 2008 Nobel Prize for Two French Virologists
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.1, January / February 2009
News & Comment
The discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been honored with a share of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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UFOs: Fact and Fiction—A Special Issue
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.1, January / February 2009
Editor's Note
UFOs fascinate the public and both amuse and frustrate science-minded skeptics. Oh, you thought UFOs were passé...
Science, Reason, and the Obama Administration
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
December 24, 2008
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Purdue Panel Finds Scientific Misconduct in Researcher’s Bubble Fusion Reports
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.6, November / December 2008
News & Comment
A Purdue University panel has found a researcher guilty of scientific misconduct in a case of bubble, or desktop, fusion.
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Keeping Ahead of the News
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.6, November / December 2008
Editor's Note
We have plenty of riches for you in this issue: five articles, four commentaries, three book reviews, two Forum columns...
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A Trio of Questionable Medical Treatments
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Editor's Note
The three articles under the theme "Questionable Medical Treatments" in this issue delve into problems with modern medicine...
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Clarke, Cognition, and the Presidential Campaign
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.4, July / August 2008
Editor's Note
This issue's tributes to Arthur C. Clarke stand as soaring testaments to that seminal figure of the twentieth century.
Arthur C. Clarke Remembered
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 32.4, July / August 2008
Featurette
Kendrick Frazier remembers Arthur C. Clarke