Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

Vol. 20, No. 2, March/April 1996

• Buy this back issue
• The Evidence for Psychic Functioning: Claims vs. Reality
• Staking Claims: Vampires of Folklore and Legend
• Investigative Files / Miracle Photos
• Forum / Science is Money in the Bank, Not in a Hole in the Ground

Special Report

Evaluation of the Military's Twenty-Year Program on Psychic Spying

Psychic spies? Psychologist Ray Hyman clears up the confusion surrounding the government's twenty-year, $20 million research program that tried using psychics for intelligence-gathering activities.
Ray Hyman

The Evidence for Psychic Functioning: Claims vs. Reality

CIA Concludes No Value to the Program
Michael D. Mumford, Andrew M. Rose, and David A. Goslin

Articles

Does Truth Matter? Science, Pseudoscience, and Civilization

Science has beauty, power, and majesty that can provide spiritual as well as practical fulfillment. But superstition and pseudoscience keep getting in the way, providing easy answers, casually pressing our awe buttons, and cheapening the experience.
Carl Sagan

Like Goes With Like: The Role of Representativeness in Erroneous and Pseudoscientific Beliefs

The misguided premise that effects should resemble their causes underlies a host of erroneous beliefs, from folk wisdom about health and the human body to elaborate pseudoscientific belief systems.
Thomas Gilovich and Kenneth Savitsky

Staking Claims: Vampires of Folklore and Legend

We know about Dracula and the would-be vampires in the news, but what were the "real" vampires all about?
Paul Barber

Editor's note

News and Comment

• Chronicle "Reads Faces" of Candidates
• A Roswell Reader
• Rolling Uphill in California
• Milk-Drinking Idols

Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
Claiborne Pell: The Senator From Outer Space

Martin Gardner

Media Watch
Media Miss Real Messages in Subliminal Stories

C. Eugene Emery, Jr.

Psychic Vibrations
Reichean Disciples, Restless Statues

Robert Sheaffer

Investigative Files
Miracle Photos

Joe Nickell

New Books

Articles of Note

Forum
Science is Money in the Bank, Not in a Hole in the Ground

Mark Boslough

Follow-Up

A Response: African Contributions to Mathematics
Beatrice Lumpkin

Response to Beatrice Lumpkin
Walter F. Rowe

Readers Forum

Viewers Find Flaws with `Alien Autopsy' Film

Letters to the Editor

Book Reviews

Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia
by Ronald Siegel

Reviewed by Robert Baker

Radical Behaviorism
by Mecca Chiesa

Reviewed by Dennis R. Wahlgren

Spaceships of the Pleiades
by Kal. K. Korff

Reviewed by Joe NIckell

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