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: Skeptical Inquirer magazine
Vol. 20, No. 4, July/August 1996
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- Traditional Medicine and Pseudoscience in China: A Report of the Second CSICOP Delegation
- Science or Pseudoscience? Pentagon Grant Funds Alternative Health Study
- Ghostly Photos
- Forum / A View from Russia: Popularization of Science as a Tool against Antiscience
- Surfing the Himalayas by Frederick Lenz (book review)
Special Report
- Science or Pseudoscience? Pentagon Grant Funds Alternative Health Study
- $355,225 was awarded for a "laying over of hands," Therapeutic
Touch study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Carla Selby and Bela Scheiber
Articles
- Traditional Medicine and
Pseudoscience in China:
A Report of the Second CSICOP Delegation - In this, the first of a two-part report on a 1995 CSICOP
delegation to China, the authors discuss the historical
nationale for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), its
involvement with the questionable Qugong movement, and the
growing importation to the West of these practices by Western
practitioners of "alternative medicine."
Barry L. Beyerstein and Wallace Sampson - Maria's Near Death Experience:
Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop - The extraordinary story of a Seattle heart patient is widely
cited as powerful more than a complex hallucination. Here is
our investigation of the claim.
Hayden Ebbern, Sean Mulligan, and Barry L. Beyerstein - Wait! I've Changed My Mind . . .
- Environmental doomsday models and eminent scientific and
political authorities provide opportunities for teaching
critical thinking to college students.
Paul Nickel with Nancy Shelton - Alternative Health Education and Pseudocredentialing
- The healthcare marketplace is fraught with "credentials", some
legitimate, some overrated, some dubious, and some far afield
of science.
Jack Raso
Columns
Editor's note
From the Chairman
CSICOP at Twenty
Paul Kurtz
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
Thomas Edison, Paranormalist
Martin Gardner
Investigative Files
Ghostly Photos
Joe Nickell
New Books
Articles of Note
Forum
A View from Russia: Popularization of Science
as a Tool against Antiscience
Boris Shmakin
Faith in Science
Ralph Estling
A Geologist's Enlightened Notes
on "Crystal Power"
Hans G. Machel
Letters to the Editor
Book reviews
- The Demon-Haunted World
by Carl Sagan - Reviewed by James Randi
- Surfing the Himalayas
by Frederick Lenz - Reviewed by Joseph P. SZimhart
- Witch-Children
by Hans Sebald - Peter Huston
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