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 paranormal and fringe-science claims 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”). Former Scientific American columnist and polymath also Martin Gardner contributes an occasional column titled “Notes of a Fringe-Watcher.”
When Science Gets Distorted for Nonscientific Reasons
by Terence M. Hines
Volume 33.4, July / August 2009
Book Review
Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology. by Geoffrey C. Kabat
Bigelow’s Aerospace and Saucer Emporium
by Robert Sheaffer
Volume 33.4, July / August 2009
Psychic Vibrations
Perhaps you've seen news stories about Bigelow Aerospace, founded by Las Vegas real estate millionaire Robert Bigelow.
Quest for the Giant Eel
by Joe Nickell
Volume 33.4, July / August 2009
Investigative Files
On a six-day trip to the Canadian province of Newfoundland in Labrador, I encountered some very large creatures...
CSI’s Balles Prize Goes to Physicist/Author Leonard Mlodinow
by Barry Karr
Volume 33.4, July / August 2009
News & Comment
CSI has awarded its Annual Prize to Mlodinow for his book The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives.
CFI World Congress: More Highlights
by Ben Radford
Volume 33.4, July / August 2009
Special Report
Longtime CSI Fellow and Skeptical Inquirer contributor Elizabeth Loftus presented a talk about...
Randi, Krauss, Kurtz Honored with Major Awards
by The Editors
Volume 33.4, July / August 2009
Special Report
James Randi, Lawrence Krauss, and Paul Kurtz were honored with major awards at CFI's 12th World Congress in Bethesda, Maryland.
Highlights of CFI’s Twelfth World Congress: Science, Public Policy, and the Planetary Community
by Kendrick Frazier
Volume 33.4, July / August 2009
Special Report
Science, Public Policy, and the Planetary Community
Seeing the Indigo Children
by Benjamin Witts
Volume 33.4, July / August 2009
Feature
The Indigo children are touted as the next evolutionary stage in human development, and their supporters boast that these...
Whats Wrong with the I Ching? Ambiguity, Obscurity, and Synchronicity
by Charles Sullivan
Volume 33.4, July / August 2009
Feature
The I Ching is an ancient Chinese oracle that many believe mysteriously offers clear advice on important questions.
Pathology or Paradigm Shift? Human Evolution, Ad Hominem Science and the Anomolous Hobbits of Flores
by Kenneth W. Krause
Volume 33.4, July / August 2009
Feature
A pint-sized Hobbit recently shook the science world's foundations and set anthropologists at one another's throats.