Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

Volume 23, Number 5, September/October 1999

• Buy this back issue
• Flash! Fox News Reports that Aliens May Have Built the Pyramids of Egypt!
• Investigative Files: Miracles or Deception? The Pathetic Case of Audrey Santo
• Profits and Prophecy: Hayseed Stevens and Oil in Israel
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Psychic book review

Special Report

Flash! Fox News Reports that Aliens May Have Built the Pyramids of Egypt!
Pseudoscience as news? The Fox Network's handling of its primetime special "Opening the Lost Tombs: Live from Egypt" raises ethical questions.
Richard C. Carrier

Articles

Where Do We Come From?
A Humbling Look at the Biology of Life's Origin
The origin of life on Earth is a fundamental scientific question, but we do not know as much as many biology textbooks would like you to believe.
Massimo Pigliucci

Profits and Prophecy
Hayseed Stevens and Oil in Israel
A fundamentalist oil entrepreneur mixes creation science, Biblical prophecy, and revivalist techniques for a program of oil exploration in Israel.
Donald U. Wise

Projective Measures of Personality and Psychopathology
How Well Do They Work?
Although projective techniques remain among the most popular of all psychological measures, many critics have branded them pseudoscientific.
Scott O. Lilienfeld

What Every Skeptic Should Know About Subliminal Persuasion
Classic research by cognitive and social psychologists suggests that subliminally presented stimuli can be perceived and can influence individuals' low-level cognitions. More recent investigations suggest that such stimuli can also affect individuals' high-level cognitive processes, including attitudes, preferences, judgments, and even their behavior.
Nicholas Epley, Kenneth Savitsky, and Robert A. Kachelski

Columns

Editor's Note

News and Comment

• Society for Scientific Exploration Tilts Wildly at Paradigms
• Bennett Braun Update: Poznanski Settles, Will Testify Against Braun
• Psychologist Wants Constitutional Protection for Exorcism Done in Therapy
• Hubbard Statistics Course Taken to Court
• NAS Publishes New Version of Science and Creationism Report
• Missing Bodies Found Despite Psychics' Tips
• Sorcerers and Psychics in Politics
• Bible Code Redux: McKay Rebuttal Published in Statistical Science
• Psychic Hotline Provider Accused of Fraud

Notes of a Fringe Watcher
Carlos Castaneda and New Age Anthropology
Martin Gardner

Investigative Files
Miracles or Deception? The Pathetic Case of Audrey Santo
Joe Nickell

Psychic Vibrations
Aliens Follow Their Leader
Robert Sheaffer

New Books

Science Best Sellers

Articles of Note

Follow-up

• Dowsing Successful
  H.-D. Betz
• The Whole Truth
  J. T. Enright
• Rupert Sheldrake and the Objectivity of Science
  Richard Wiseman and Caroline Watt

Book Reviews

Amazon purchases help fund CSICOP On-line

Unauthorized Freud:
Doubters Confront a Legend [Amazon]
Edited by Frederick C. Crews
Reviewed by Mark Bauerlein

The Honey Bee [Amazon]
By James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould
Reviewed by Ian Maione

Apocalypse Pretty Soon [Amazon]
By Alex Heard
Reviewed by Terence Hines

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Psychic [Amazon]
By Lynne Robinson and LaVonne Carlson-Finnerty
David Bloomberg

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