Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

Volume 25, Number 4, July August

• Buy this back issue
• A Quarter Century of Skeptical Inquiry: My Personal Involvement
• Proper Criticism
• Investigative Files: Tracking the Swamp Monsters
• Commentary: Polygraphs and the National Labs: Dangerous Ruse Undermines National Security

Articles

Confronting Veterinary Medical Nonsense
A Report from the Trenches
In veterinary medicine, as in human medicine, people now find themselves besieged with dubious claims for a variety of therapies.
Robert Imrie, DVM

Junk Science and the Law
Legal systems throughout the world have often been corrupted into suppressing unpopular scientific knowledge and into promoting pseudoscience, for political, religious, or economic reasons. In the United States new regulations regarding "expert" testimony and new strategies to quiet scientific truth are gaining strength. Because of this it is imperative that skeptics realize the extent to which legal abuses may support and advance the agenda of those opposed to rational thought.
John E. Dodes

Chevreul's Report on the Mysterious Oscillations of the Hand-Held Pendulum
A French Chemist's 1833 Open Letter to Ampére
An extraordinary paper written in 1833 by the French chemist Michel-Eugène Chevreul on his experiments and interpretation of the "magical pendulum" is remarkable in its prescience and astute, rational understanding of the nature of the true source of the pendulum movement. The authors here present the first complete English translation of this special document.
Herman H. Spitz and Yves Marcuard

CSICOP's 25th Anniversary

A Quarter Century of Skeptical Inquiry
My Personal Involvement
Paul Kurtz

Thoughts on Science and Skepticism in the Twenty-First Century
Kendrick Frazier

Proper Criticism
Ray Hyman

The Lighter Side of Skepticism
Skeptical Cartoons by Rob Pudim

Reviews

The Spirit in the Gene: Humanity's Proud Illusion and the Laws of Nature
By Reg Morrison
Ken Parejko
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It Ain't Necessarily So: How Media Make and Unmake the Scientific Picture of Reality
By David Murray, Joel Schwartz, and S. Robert Lichter
P. A. Lamal
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Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect
By Paul R. Ehrlich
Daniel Grassam
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The Dish: A Film about Real Life and Real Scientists
Edward Summer
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Columns

Editor's Note

News And Comment

• A Different Angle on the Socorro UFO of 1964
• Rebirthing Update: Therapists Convicted, Therapy Outlawed in Colorado
• Chiropractic Deal with York University Is Dead
• CSICOP Elects Six New Fellows
• Pyramid Schemes: For Women Only
• Rhine Research Center Plans to Build a New Home in Durham
• Belief, Perceptions, and Full Moons at a Psychiatric Hospital
• Skeptical Inquirer 25-Year Index Now Available Online
• Lack of UFOs Shuts Down British Flying Saucer Bureau

Investigative Files
Tracking the Swamp Monsters
Joe Nickell

Psychic Vibrations
UFOs Sink Mir Into the Ocean while the Alien Choir Sings On
Robert Sheaffer

Commentary
Polygraphs and the National Labs:
Dangerous Ruse Undermines National Security
Alan P. Zelicoff

Forum
Undecidability
Ralph Estling

Follow-Up
The Condemned Meta-Analysis on Child Sexual Abuse: Good Science and Long-Overdue Skepticism
Bruce Rind, Robert Bauserman, and Philip Tromovitch

New Books

Science Best Sellers

Articles of Note

Letters to the Editor

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