Skeptical Inquirer
Skeptical Inquirer is the official journal of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Six times per year Skeptical Inquirer publishes critical scientific evaluations of all manner of controversial and extraordinary claims, including but not limited to paranormal and fringe-science matters, and informed discussion of all relevant issues. In addition to news, articles, book reviews, and investigations on a wide variety of topics, Skeptical Inquirer has a stellar stable of regular columnists including Joe Nickell (“Investigative Files”), Massimo Polidoro (“Notes on a Strange World”), Massimo Pigluicci (“Thinking About Science”), Robert Sheaffer (“Psychic Vibrations”), and SI managing editor Benjamin Radford's reader-driven (“The Skeptical Inquiree”). Yale University neurologist Steven Novella, M.D., founder of the New England Skeptical Society and executive editor of the Science-Based Medicine blog, contributes a new "The Science of Medicine" column, and contributing editor Kenneth W. Krause adds a regular science column, "ScienceWatch."
Frankenstein Was Not a Doctor
by Ron Watkins
Volume 34.6, November/December 2010
Misconceptions about the novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus arose from the errant and misleading interpretations of the story in film adaptations.
MythBusters’s Adam Savage
by Karen Stollznow
Volume 34.6, November/December 2010
Karen Stollznow, a host of the Center for Inquiry's Point of Inquiry podcast, recently spoke with him.
The True Cross: Chaucer, Calvin, and the Relic Mongers
by Joe Nickell
Volume 34.6, November/December 2010
Investigative Files
Calvin suggested that "if we were to collect all these pieces of the True Cross exhibited in various parts, they would form a whole ship's cargo."
How to Make a Monster!
by Massimo Polidoro
Volume 34.6, November/December 2010
Notes on a Strange World
The Legend of Creating Artificial Life: From the Golem to Pinocchio
Ghost-Hunting Mistakes: Science and Pseudoscience in Ghost Investigations
by Ben Radford
Volume 34.6, November/December 2010
There are thousands of amateur ghost hunters around the world whose techniques are modeled after hit cable television shows such as Ghost Hunters, which...
The Poor, Misunderstood Placebo
by Steven Novella
Volume 34.6, November/December 2010
Understanding placebo effects is critical to making sense of medical research and ever-expanding health claims within an increasingly unregulated market.
Illusionists at Work
by Edzard Ernst
Volume 34.5, September/October 2010
Commentary
How to 'Prove' That Bogus Treatments Are Effective
Swedenborg and Dr. Oz
by Martin Gardner
Volume 34.5, September/October 2010
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
It is not widely known that Oz has been profoundly influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish Protestant fundamentalist who, late in life, became...
Nostradamus: A New Look at an Old Seer
by Joe Nickell
Volume 34.5, September/October 2010
Investigative Files
As these examples show, one cannot claim that Nostradamus successfully predicted the future.
Should Chiropractors Treat Children?
by Samuel Homola
Volume 34.5, September/October 2010
Article
Parents should be made aware of possible risks associated with chiropractic treatment of children, particularly the services offered by “pediatric chirop...
