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."
Traditional Medicine and Pseudoscience in China: A Report of the Second CSICOP Delegation (Part 1)
by Barry L. Beyerstein and Wallace Sampson
Volume 20.4, July / August 1996
Special Report
The historical rationale for Traditional Chinese Medicine and the growing of these practices by Western practitioners.
Science or Pseudoscience? Pentagon Grant Funds Alternative Health Study
by Carla Selby and Bela Scheiber
Volume 20.4, July / August 1996
Special Report
$355,225 was awarded for a 'laying over of hands,' Therapeutic Touch study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
A View from Russia: Popularization of Science as a Tool against Antiscience
by Boris Shmakin
Volume 20.4, July / August 1996
Forum
In Russia, many parapsychologists, astrologers, and nontraditional doctors and are involved in pseudoscientific investigations.
A Wayward Way to Buddhist Spirituality
by Joseph P. Szimhart
Volume 20.4, July / August 1996
Book Review
Many years ago I wrote to a Tibetan scholar, Nawang Tsering, for information about a mysterious manuscript—
Ghostly Photos
by Joe Nickell
Volume 20.4, July / August 1996
Investigative Files
A rash of new “ghost” photographs is plaguing the Western world.
Senior Researcher Comments on the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon in Japan
by Markus Pössel & Ron Amundson
Volume 20.3, May / June 1996
Follow-up
The myth of the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon was devised by Lyall Watson in 1979 and has been written about in Skeptical Inquirer
A Study of Fantasy Proneness in the Thirteen Cases of Alleged Encounters in John Mack’s Abduction
by Joe Nickell
Volume 20.3, May / June 1996
Investigative Files
Since Robert A. Baker's article appeared in the Skeptical Inquirer, a controversy has raged over his suggestion...
What’s That I Smell? The Claims of Aromatherapy
by Lynn McCutcheon
Volume 20.3, May / June 1996
Article
A small dose of aromatic oil may make for a pleasant experience, but the claims of aromatherapy go way beyond that.
Workshop Report: To Err Is Human
by Nancy Shelton
Volume 20.3, May / June 1996
Special Report
More than one hundred skeptics attended CSICOP's superb Human Error Workshop at the University of Oregon.
Does Truth Matter? Science, Pseudoscience, and Civilization
by Carl Sagan
Volume 20.2, March / April 1996
Article
Science has beauty, power, and majesty that can provide spiritual as well as practical fulfillment...
