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.
Advice for Skeptics: A Television Reporter Speaks
by Clyde Freeman Herreid
Volume 7.4, December 1997
Interviews
Interview with investigative reporter Kimberly Drake
Art Bell’s Quickening Is Sickening
by Robert Baker
Volume 7.4, December 1997
A Skeptic's Notebook
We’ve long known that Art Bell, night radio’s paranoid propagandist, knows how to rave and rant.
Sci-Fi Art, the Levitron, and Collapsing Atoms
by Milton Rothman
Volume 7.4, December 1997
Reality Check
One of the results of a long and checkered career is the accumulation of assorted information, most of which does me no good.
Prayer Wars
by Robert Baker
Volume 7.3, September 1997
A Skeptic's Notebook
In 1994, we reported on Larry Dossey, who assured us that prayer can not only heal, but it also makes those who pray feel better
Ouija in the Classroom
by Larry Barrieau
Volume 7.3, September 1997
For the past decade I have been introducing the scientific method to my seventh graders in a unique way: I use the paranormal.
Imported Paranormal Beliefs in Taiwan
by Monty Vierra
Volume 7.2, June 1997
Taiwan has so far been spared much of the cult madness that elsewhere captures headlines...
An Alien Taxonomy
by Robert Baker
Volume 7.2, June 1997
A Skeptic's Notebook
Once the concept of extraterrestrials managed to dominate the media, it was inevitable that someone would establish a taxonomy.
The Roswell Legacy
by Joe Nickell
Volume 7.2, June 1997
Investigative Files
Fifty years ago this summer, the modern UFO craze began...
Group News
by Thomas G. Genoni Jr.
Volume 7.2, June 1997
Group News
1997 marks the 50th anniversary of the "Roswell incident," an event that helped kick off our culture's fascination with UFOs.