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Volume 24, Number 3, May/June 2000
- Buy this back issue
- Special Report: The New Bogus Majestic-12 Documents
- Mass Delusions and Hysterias: Highlights from the Past Millennium
- Investigative Files: Aura Photography: A Candid Shot
- Follow-up: The Power of Prayer
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Special Report |  |
The New Bogus Majestic-12 Documents
The new crashed-saucer documents, like their 1987 predecessors, are riddled with flaws.
Philip J. Klass
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Articles | |
Mass Delusions and Hysterias
Highlights from the Past Millennium
Over the past millennium, mass delusions and hysterical outbreaks have
taken many forms. Sociologists Robert Bartholomew and Erich Goode survey some
of the more colorful cases.
Robert E. Bartholomew and Erich Goode
Doomsday Fears at RHIC
This year, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is poised to begin a
program of cutting- edge nuclear science. Recently, alarmist journalism
unnecessarily raised public fears about implausible doomsday scenarios
associated with the machine.
Thomas D. Gutierrez
Save Our Science
The Struggle for Reason at the University
Astrology, parapsychology, and other "paranormal" phenomena are
fashionable. Can we understand why? And what specifically should be done? At
the University of Nice, France, an experiment is based on teaching the
scientific method through examining the pseudosciences.
Henri Broch
Paraneuroscience?
Psychology is the study of individual cognitive behavior and parapsychology
is the study of psychic phenomena. Neuroscience is the study of the brain and
is a discipline closely related to psychology-so why is there no
paraneuroscience?
Kyle Kirkland
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Editor's Note
News and Comment
- Public Wants Evolution, Not Creationism, in Science Class, New National Poll Shows
- Nostradamus 1999 Predictions Miss (Again)
- Mirages of Remote Viewing from Hawaii
- In Brief
- May 5, 2000: Will You Survive the Cosmic Y2K Glitch?
Notes of a Fringe Watcher
The Guided Wave Theory of Louis de Broglie and David Bohm
Martin Gardner
Investigative Files
Aura Photography: A Candid Shot
Joe Nickell
Psychic Vibrations
Apocalypse Lost
Robert Sheaffer
New Books
Science Best Sellers
Articles of Note
Forum
- Foxes and Hedgehogs
Ralph Estling - Skeptical of Skepticism
Deborah Frisch
- The Power of Prayer
Nicholas Humphrey
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