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Volume 22, Number 4, July/August 1998
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- Magnetic Therapy: Plausible Attraction?
- Biomagnetic Pseudoscience and Nonsense Claims
- Planting a Seed of Doubt
- Book review: Talking to Heaven by James Van Praagh
- CSICOP Compiles Top Ten Paranormal Hoaxes
Special Report
Mars Global Surveyor Photographs `Face on Mars'David Morrison
Articles
Magnetic Therapy: Plausible Attraction?Long considered only a component of quack medicine, magnetic therapy has received a boost from a recent study at the Baylor College of Medicine. Is it plausible?
James D. Livingston
Biomagnetic Pseudoscience and Nonsense Claims
Miguel A. Sabadell
Catching Up with Eighteenth Century Science in the Evaluation of Therapeutic Touch
Eighteenth century research on Mesmer's Animal Magnetism, as well as some contemporary studies, shed light on the misattributions that underlie the persistence of Therapeutic Touch as a movement.
Thomas S. Ball and Dean D. Alexander
Paranormal Depictions in the Media: How Do They Affect What People Believe?
Media depictions of the paranormal do seem to influence the way people think about the subject -- but the connections are more complicated than you might think.
Glenn G. Sparks
Planting a Seed of Doubt
Skeptics should forego any thought of convincing the unconvinced that we hold the torch of truth illuminating the darkness. A more modest, realistic, and achievable goal is to encourage the idea that one may be mistaken. Doubt is humbling and constructive; it leads to rational thought in weighing alternatives and fully reexamining options, and it opens unlimited vistas.
Elie a. Shneour
Essiac: The Not-So-Remarkable Cancer Remedy
Essiac and Essiac-like products generate millions of dollars in
sales annually. They also generate multitudes of excuses for their failure to
show any effectiveness in scientific tests.
Lynn McCutcheon
columns
Editor's NoteNews and Comment
- National Academy of Sciences: Evolution Must Be Taught If Students Are to Understand Modern Biology
- Concepts and Misconceptions
- Feynman Speaks from Grave to Debunk Paranormal
- `Human Presence Detector' Device Fails Controlled Tests at National Laboratory
- Frederick `Rama' Lenz Dies on Easter Sunday
- Pigs Might Fly! Here Are Randi's 1998 Pigasus Awards
- Tai Chi Master's `Empty Force' Proves To Be No Shield
- APS Worries about Nonsense in Name of Science; Cold Fusion Transforms Again
- Saucer Shorts
- CSICOP Compiles Top Ten Paranormal Hoaxes
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
Near-Earth Objects: Monsters of Doom?
Martin Gardner
Investigative Files
Science vs. `Shroud Science'
Joe Nickell
New Books
Articles of Note
Science Best Sellers
Forum
Is Science Concerned with Truth?
Ralph Estling
Change the Channel
Kat Meltzer
Follow-Up
Mars Effect -- Dead or Alive? Dissenting from J.W. Nienhuys' `Retrospect'
Suitbert Ertel and Kenneth Irving
Responding to Ertel: Mars Flukes
Jan Willem Nienhuys
Letters to the Editor
Book reviews
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledgeby Edward O. Wilson
Paul Kurtz
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
by Edward J. Larson
A. Scott Henderson
Talking to Heaven
by James Van Praagh
Joe Nickell
HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality
by David G. Stork
Julia L. Green
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