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Volume 26, Number 4, July/August 2002
- Buy this back issue
- Who Abused Jane Doe? The Hazards of the Single Case History, Part 2
- The High Cost of Skepticism
- Tracing Graham Hancock's Shifting Cataclysm
- Notes on a Strange World: Return of Spring-Heeled Jack
- The First Skeptics' Congress Convenes in Russia
- Why Is Pseudoscience Dangerous?
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Science and Pseudoscience in Russia |  |
The First Skeptics' Congress Convenes in Russia
Paul Kurtz
Resolution Against Antiscience, Charlatanism, and Irrationalism in Russia
The Reliability of Scientific Knowledge and the Enemies of Science
Yuri N. Efremov
Why Is Pseudoscience Dangerous?
Edward Kruglyakov
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Who Abused Jane Doe?
The Hazards of the Single Case History Part 2
Case histories have played a long-standing role in the history of science, medicine, and mental health. But they can mislead-especially when only half the story is told. Here's a case history about a case history that proves just that.
Elizabeth F. Loftus and Melvin J. Guyer
The High Cost of Skepticism
Here's what happened to two scientists who believed that tenure and the First Amendment would protect their rights to free inquiry.
Carol Tavris
Tracing Graham Hancock's Shifting Cataclysm
An examination of a specific portion of Graham Hancock's book Fingerprints of the Gods, relating to Earth Crustal Displacement, the climates and fauna of Siberia and Alaska, and the deaths of the mammoths, finds it to be critically flawed.
Michael Brass
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
How the Press Created an Imaginary Chemical Weapons Attack
The mass media are often influential in spreading episodes of mass hysteria to the public at large. This is no more evident than in the famous case of the Mad Gasser of Mattoon.
Bob Ladendorf and Robert E. Bartholomew
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White House 'CAM' Commission Reaches 'Preordained' Conclusion
Tim Gorski, M.D.
Prescriptions from the Land of Make-Believe Healthcare
William M. London
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Editor's Note
News and Comment
- New Age, Paranormal Topics Influenced Alleged Domestic Pipe Bomb Terrorist Luke Helder
- Rise of the Raëlians: Flying Saucers, Science, Sex, and Religion
- Controlled Study Finds No Efficacy for St. John's Wort in Major Depression
- Eloquence on Western Medicine, Alternative Medicine
- Stephen Jay Gould 1941-2002
- Kansas Scientist Who Fought Creationists Honored by American Physical Society
- Conspiracy Book About Sept. 11 Attacks a Best Seller in France
Moscow Mysteries
Joe Nickell
Notes on a Strange World
Return of Spring-Heeled Jack
Massimo Polidoro
New Books
Science Best Sellers
Follow-Up
- More on Vardaman's Microletters
Richard Carrier
Letters to the Editor
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Book Reviews | |
Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal
By Joe Nickell
Robert A. Baker
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Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"
By Philip Plait
Kenneth Silber
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850
By Brian M. Fagan
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
By Tim Flannery
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Erik Strommen
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