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."
When the Media Tell Half the Story
by C. Eugene Emery Jr.
Volume 21.3, May / June 1997
Media Watch
What a difference nearly three decades doesn’t make.
The Darkened Cosmos II: More Tributes to Carl Sagan
by The Editors
Volume 21.3, May / June 1997
Special Report
We continue the tributes to Carl Sagan begun in our last issue.
Is the Sky Falling?
by David Morrison
Volume 21.3, May / June 1997
Article
A scientific consensus agrees that cosmic impacts have played a major role in Earth history...
A Bridge Too Far
by Jeffrey B. King
Volume 21.2, March / April 1997
Book Review
Review of Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions By Budd Hopkins.
An Astronomer’s Personal Statement on UFOs
by Alan Hale
Volume 21.2, March / April 1997
Featurette
When I am confronted with beliefs about UFOs or other paranormal phenomena, I am guided by three basic principles...
The End of Science?
by Theodore Schick Jr.
Volume 21.2, March / April 1997
Article
Why do many now view science as a failed ideology rather than as an epistemological ideal? Should science be viewed that way?
Hale-Bopp Comet Madness
by Alan Hale
Volume 21.2, March / April 1997
Article
I find the pseudoscientific claims surrounding Comet Hale-Bopp quite amusing...
The Darkened Cosmos: A Tribute to Carl Sagan
by The Editors
Volume 21.2, March / April 1997
Special Tribute
One of the world's strongest and most eloquent voices for science and reason has been silenced forever.
The Mysterious Placebo
by John E. Dodes
Volume 21.1, January / February 1997
Article
Research shows that the placebo effect can be greater and is far more ubiquitous than commonly thought.
Quantum Quackery
by Victor Stenger
Volume 21.1, January / February 1997
Article
An objective reality, with no special role for consciousness, human or cosmic, is consistent with all observations.
