Skeptical Briefs
The Skeptical Briefs newsletter is only available to Associate Members of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. It is published four times per year (in March, June, September, and December), and includes articles; news from skeptical groups across the country and around the world; and regular columnists Joe Nickell ("Investigative Files"), Lewis Jones ("Inklings"), Victor Stenger ("Reality Check"), Henry Huber ("Group News"); and Benjamin Radford ("Briefs Briefs"). It also includes a Hidden Messages puzzle in each issue by New Mexico physicist and skeptic David E. Thomas.
Aliens are from Mars, Solved Mysteries from Venus
by Kevin Christopher
Volume 11.1, March 2001
Regardless of their merits, some UFO "mysteries"-like the "Roswell Incident"-live for decades in the public imagination...
Come Waste Some Time in the Looniverse!
by Harrie Verstappen
Volume 11.1, March 2001
Just north of the Venezuelan coast, Curaçao's Willemstad is the government seat of the Netherlands Antilles...
Remotely Viewed? The Charlie Jordan Case
by Joe Nickell
Volume 11.1, March 2001
Investigative Files
Was fugitive drug smuggler Charlie Jordan nabbed after a CIA "remote viewer" helped pinpoint his location in northern Wyoming?
A History of State UFO Research in the USSR
by Yulii Platov and Boris Sokolov
Volume 10.4, December 2000
Here we proudly continue our effort to give voice to skeptics from around the world...
Midnight Adventure in a Graveyard
by Pat Leonard
Volume 10.4, December 2000
For over fifty years I have been a private investigator with a proclivity for checking con men and psychics...
The Emperor’s New Designer Clothes
by Victor Stenger
Volume 10.4, December 2000
Reality Check
Intelligent Design is the latest buzzword in the so-called dialogue between science and religion...
Buddy Can You Paradigm?
by Victor Stenger
Volume 10.3, September 2000
Reality Check
A common view is that science progresses as new theories replace old ones that are "proven wrong."
Fighting the Paranormal in Peru: An Interview with Manuel Paz y Miño
by Pat Leonard
Volume 10.3, September 2000
Interviews
Interview with Peruvian skeptic Manuel Paz y Miño
The Case of the Missing Poltergeist
by Robert Baker
Volume 10.2, June 2000
Like many citizens, Fred Fudge reads the news during breakfast and, on rare occasions, even converses with Mrs. Fudge...
The Searchers Trilogy By Chet Williamson
by Timothy Binga
Volume 10.2, June 2000
Book Review
Review of City of Iron, Empire of Dust, and Siege of Stone
