Vol. 20, No. 1, January/February 1996

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• How to Make an `Alien' for `Autopsy' (offsite)
• A Surgeon's View of the `Alien Autopsy'
• Science and Reason in Film and Television
• Psychics Strike Out (Again) in 1995
• Looking Up to Logic

Table of Contents

Special Report

How to Make an `Alien' for `Autopsy' (on the Truly Dangerous web page)

It's easy, says a Hollywood creature effects artist. And, in fact, this is how he suspects the `alien' body in the notorious `autopsy' film shown on Fox was created.
Trey Stokes

A Surgeon's View of the `Alien Autopsy'

Joseph A. Bauer, M.D.

Articles

EMDR Treatment: Less Than Meets the Eye?

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing has been hailed by many as a major breakthrough in the treatment of anxiety disorders. It rests on a surprisingly weak foundation of research evidence.
Scott O. Lilienfeld

Edgar Cayce: The `Prophet' Who `Slept' His Way to the Top

Known as the `Sleeping Prophet,' Edgar Cayce was in the headlines for going into sleeplike trances to make predictions and dispense medical advice. He kept his own scorecards. Are they evidence of success or merely anecdotes?
Dale Beyerstein

Psychic Crime Detectives: A New Test for Measuring Their Successes and Failures

A controlled test of `psychic detectives,' using a novel method, found that they were no more accurate than college students. Yet the psychics all thought they had been successful.
Richard Wiseman, Donald West, and Roy Stemman

Health Statistics May Be Bad for Our Mental Health

Psychological, mathematical, and factual lapses underlie many of our inappropriate reactions to statistics. News reports often help foster these responses.
John Allen Paulos

Science and Reason in Film and Television

Recent entertainment media portrayals of science and pseudoscience imply that skepticism is no longer useful and may even be dangerous.
William Evans

Columns

Editor's Note

News and Comment

• Psychics Strike Out (Again) in 1995
• New Eye on Nature: Cradles of (Star) Creation
• A Typical Aries?

Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
Post-Freudian Dream Theory

Martin Gardner

Media Watch
Who Plays the Fool?

C. Eugene Emery, Jr.

Investigative Files
`The Devil's Footprints': Solving a Classic Mystery

Joe Nickell

New Books

Articles of Note

Forum

Looking Up to Logic

Bryan Farha

Don't Bother Me With the Facts

Elie a. Shneour

Letters to the Editor

Book Reviews

At the Fringes of Science
by Michael W. Friedlander

Barry Markovsky

Reason in the Balance
by Phillip Johnson

Thomas H. Jukes

The Health Robbers
by Stephen Barrett and William T. Jarvis

Wolf Roder

The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark
by Charles E. Sellier and David W. Balsiger

David Pitt

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