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.
CSICOP Holds Workshop in San Diego
by The Editors
Volume 6.2, June 1996
A workshop on "Feats of the Wonder Workers" was held on March 23 and 24, 1996, at the Regency Plaza Hotel in San Diego.
Scientific Remote Viewing
by Robert Baker
Volume 6.2, June 1996
A Skeptic's Notebook
Historians of the next century will no doubt regard January 1996 as the period of the greatest breakthrough in all of history.
Israel: Where the Paranormal Is Normal
by Eric Lee
Volume 6.2, June 1996
I should begin by saying that this has always been a land in which the paranormal is normal.
Levengood’s Crop-Circle Plant Research
by Joe Nickell
Volume 6.2, June 1996
Investigative Files
The question of bias is important since Levengood's attitudes and assumptions reveal him as a partisan crop-circle "believer."
NBC’s Origins Show
by Dave Thomas
Volume 6.1, March 1996
Quality science was nowhere to be found during the Feb. 25th, 1996 NBC broadcast entitled The Mysterious Origins of Man
Nessie Hoax Redux
by Joe Nickell
Volume 6.1, March 1996
Investigative Files
In 1934, a photo of "Nessie," the fabled Loch Ness Monster, was allegedly snapped by a London gynecologist named Robert Wilson.
Psychics, Physics and Magnets
by Milton Rothman
Volume 6.1, March 1996
Reality Check
A wonderful document has wafted its way across my desk. It is either a press release or a scientific abstract...
Improving Scientific Literacy
by Robert Baker
Volume 6.1, March 1996
Book Review
Review of The Myth Of Scientific Literacy by Morris H. Shamos
The Skeptic-raping Demon of Zanzibar
by Joe Nickell
Volume 5.4, December 1995
Investigative Files
The scene is modern-day Zanzibar where a terrible monster is swooping into bedrooms at night and raping men.
EMFs Again
by Milton Rothman
Volume 5.4, December 1995
Reality Check
My last column had a few things to say about claims of cancer risk produced by low frequency electromagnetic fields.