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."
Staking Claims: The Vampires of Folklore and Fiction
by Paul Barber
Volume 20.2, March / April 1996
Article
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.
Science and Reason in Film and Television
by William Evans
Volume 20.1, January / February 1996
Article
Recent media portrayals of science and pseudoscience imply that skepticism is no longer useful and may even be dangerous.
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.
“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.
Bra Hazards, Carpet Circles, Lunar Aliens, and Adam’s Animals
by Robert Sheaffer
Volume 19.6, November / December 1995
Psychic Vibrations
Researchers looking into the causes of breast cancer may have overlooked the most obvious cause of all: the wearing of bras.
