Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

[Barry Karr <SkeptInq@aol.com>]

 Skeptical Inquirer Electronic Digest, February 13, 2001

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 In this edition of SI Digest:

 --NEW TIMES: CFI-West Skeptics Put Psychic Dog to Test
 --FOX TV to Air Moon Conspiracy Special, Feb. 15
 --TIME COVER STORY: Human Cloning
 --TIME/CNN POLL: Public Attitudes Towards Cloning
 --NPR TALK OF THE NATION: Who Owns the Human Genome?
 -- CHICAGO TRIBUNE: the battle between veterinarians over Alternative
Medicine

 --NEW TIMES: CFI-WEST SKEPTICS PUT PSYCHIC DOG TO TEST

 The New Times recently ran a feature on the skeptics investigation unit at
 the Center for Inquiry-West in Los Angeles, the West coast bureau for
 Skeptical Inquirer magazine.

 Read the full text of the feature at
 <http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2001-01-25/feature.html/page1.html>

 --FOX TV TO AIR MOON CONSPIRACY SPECIAL, FEB. 14

 Can't believe that Fox Television continues to sell mystery mongering to the
 American public? Tune-in to Thursday night's "Moon Conspiracy" special, and
 then email your feedback to the network at askfox@foxinc.com .

 MOON CONSPIRACY

 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) In Stereo-CC

 MOON LANDING QUESTIONED ON THE ALL-NEW SPECIAL 'CONSPIRACY THEORY: DID WE
 LAND ON THE MOON' FEB. 15 ON FOX

 NASA put a man on the moon for the first time in 1969 -- or did it? Could
 the entire moon program have been an elaborate deception staged to fool the
 public? The conspiracy theories are investigated in the all-new one-hour
 special CONSPIRACY THEORY: DID WE LAND ON THE MOON Thursday, Feb. 15
 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). (SP-0139) (TV-PG)

 --TIME COVER STORY: HUMAN CLONING

 Baby, It's You! And You, And You...
 February 19, 2001

 To read the full story, go to
 <http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,98998,00.html>

 Renegade scientists say they are ready to start applying the technology of
 cloning to human beings. Can they really do it, and how scary would that be?
 BY NANCY GIBBS

 --TIME/CNN POLL: PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARDS HUMAN CLONING

 Monday, February 12, 2001
 To view the full poll results, go to
 <http://www.time.com/time/health/printout/0,8816,99005,00.html>
 TIME/CNN Poll — Cloning
 The results concerning cloning of the latest TIME/CNN poll conducted
 February 7-8, 2001 reveal that an overwhelming majority of American oppose
 human cloning, most on religious grounds.


 --NPR TALK OF THE NATION: WHO OWNS THE HUMAN GENOME?

 To listen to the full audio, go to
 <http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=02/12/2001&PrgID=5>


 HOST: JUAN WILLIAMS
 Monday, February 12, 2001

 HOUR ONE: Who Owns the Human Genome?
 (14.4 | 28.8)
 GUEST:
 REBECCA EISENBERG
 *Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
 *Author of several articles which have appeared in Science, Nature
 Genetics and Trends in Genetics

 ROY WHITFIELD
 *CEO and Founder, Incyte Genomics, Stanford, CA

 For the past three years, an international consortium and Celera, a private
 company have been scrambling to catalog all human genes. They've done it,
 and now the mad dash continues because businesses want to claim exclusive
 rights to the information. Owning the patents could mean lots of money but
 many feel this information should be available free to the public. Join Juan
 Williams and guests for a discussion about who owns the human genome.


-- CHICAGO TRIBUNE: the battle between veterinarians over Alternative Medicine

Fur flies as more veterinarians employ aromatherapy, acupuncture

By Richard Wronski
Tribune Staff Writer
February 12, 2001

Jake the police dog made a low, menacing sound as veterinarian Dr. Laurie
McCauley slipped several needles through his thick, black coat into his
massive neck.

"I know he's better because he's growling," said McHenry County Deputy
Sheriff Andrew Zinke, a true believer in acupuncture for Jake's sore back.

But alternative medicine is raising more ominous rumbles these days among the
65,000 members of the Schaumburg-based American Veterinary Medical
Association.

A feud is brewing between conventional animal doctors and those who think
their furry patients benefit by alternative practices, from chiropractic
adjustments to aromatherapy.

For full story go to:

http://www.chicago.tribune.com/news/metro/chicago/article/0,2669,ART-49835,F%2

0F.html


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