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 Martin Gardner also contributes an occasional column titled “Notes of a Fringe-Watcher.”
Does Truth Matter? Science, Pseudoscience, and Civilization
by Carl Sagan
Volume 20.2, March / April 1996
Feature
Science has beauty, power, and majesty that can provide spiritual as well as practical fulfillment...
Staking Claims: The Vampires of Folklore and Fiction
by Paul Barber
Volume 20.2, March / April 1996
Feature
We know about Dracula and the would-be vampires in the news, but what were the “real” vampires all about?
Scientific Knowledge Is Money in the Bank
by Mark Boslough
Volume 20.2, March / April 1996
Forum
”Meteor Crater . . . the planet’s most penetrating natural attraction.”
Miracle Photographs
by Joe Nickell
Volume 20.2, March / April 1996
Investigative Files
October 27, 1995, the television program "Unsolved Mysteries" aired a segment that included investigative work by CSICOP.
The Evidence for Psychic Functioning: Claims vs. Reality
by Ray Hyman
Volume 20.2, March / April 1996
Special Report
The recent media frenzy over the Stargate report violated the truth.
Looking Up To Logic
by Bryan Farha
Volume 20.1, January / February 1996
Forum
Why does the UFO phenomenon seem to change the thinking process of so many?
A Surgeon’s View: Alien Autopsy’s Overwhelming Lack of Credibility
by Joseph A. Bauer
Volume 20.1, January / February 1996
Special Report
It is easier to create a hoax than to unmask one. But the question "Why?" exposes the the autopsy film as a fabrication.
Science and Reason in Film and Television
by William Evans
Volume 20.1, January / February 1996
Feature
Recent media portrayals of science and pseudoscience imply that skepticism is no longer useful and may even be dangerous.
“Alien Autopsy” Show-and-Tell: Long on Tell, Short on Show
by C. Eugene Emery Jr.
Volume 19.6, November / December 1995
Media Watch
There's nothing more maddening than being invited to make up your own mind without being given you the tools to do it.
CSICOP Assists in Philadelphia TV Station’s Psychic “Sting”
by Joe Nickell
Volume 19.6, November / December 1995
News & Comment
A cleverly conceived and strikingly effective psychic expose was conducted in May 1995 by Philadelphia WCAU-TV's Herb Denenberg.