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."
Fears of the Apocalypse: The Escape from Reason
by Paul Kurtz
Volume 23.1, January / February 1999
Special Report
Millennium hysteria has been with humankind for a long time, but combined with doomsday prophecies, the result can be dangerous.
A Cogent Consideration of the Case for Karma (and Reincarnation)
by Barry L. Beyerstein
Volume 23.1, January / February 1999
Book Review
Review of Reincarnation: A Critical Examination by Paul Edwards
The Martian Panic Sixty Years Later: What Have We Learned?
by Robert E. Bartholomew
Volume 22.6, November / December 1998
Feature
The ‘War of the Worlds’ panic happened sixty years ago, but its lessons are as relevant today as back then.
Helix to Heaven
by Joe Nickell
Volume 22.6, November / December 1998
Investigative Files
The Staircase Stands but the Myth Falls
Science and Reason, Foibles and Fallacies, and Doomsdays
by Kendrick Frazier
Volume 22.6, November / December 1998
Special Report
The skeptical movement has gone from an idea in the minds of a few colleagues to a widely recognized international network.
Alternative Medicine, Impact Threats, Abrupt Climate Change, and Efficient Energy
by Matt Nisbet
Volume 22.6, November / December 1998
Special Report
A brief review of several of the sessions at the World Skeptics Congress
How to Study Weird Things
by Frank Trocco
Volume 22.5, September / October 1998
Feature
Strategies for increasing students' aptitude and analytical reasoning without disenchanting them with science.
Uncritical Publicity for Supposed ‘Independent UFO Investigation’ Demonstrates Media Gullibility
by Robert Sheaffer
Volume 22.5, September / October 1998
News & Comment
In 1998, major media outlets were suddenly filled with accounts that an scientists had taken a fresh look at the UFO question.
What’s Going On At Temple University?
by Martin Gardner
Volume 22.5, September / October 1998
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
In recent years Temple University has become a center for the promulgation of some of the wildest aspects of pseudoscience.
Coincidences: Remarkable or Random?
by Bruce Martin
Volume 22.5, September / October 1998
Feature
The very nature of randomness assures that combing random data will yield some pattern.