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."
“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.
Eyewitness Testimony and the Paranormal
by Richard Wiseman, Matthew Smith, and Jeff Wisman
Volume 19.6, November / December 1995
Article
Much of the evidence relating to paranormal phenomena consists of eyewitness testimony...
“Alien Autopsy” Hoax
by Joe Nickell
Volume 19.6, November / December 1995
Investigative Files
It keeps going and going and...
Mystical Medical Alternativism
by Jack Raso
Volume 19.5, September / October 1995
Article
Hundreds of mystical or supernaturalistic health treatment methods have been advanced in recent decades. Here are 31 of them.
China, Chi, and Chicanery: Examining Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chi Theory
by Peter Huston
Volume 19.5, September / October 1995
Article
Traditional Chinese medicine is thousands of years old and has literally more than a billion satisfied customers.
The Roswell Incident and Project Mogul
by Dave Thomas
Volume 19.4, July / August 1995
Special Report
A report strongly supported the theory that the "UFO" debris found in Roswell, New Mexico was a remnant of a balloon flight.
Recovered Memories Cross the Oceans
by Robert Sheaffer
Volume 19.4, July / August 1995
Psychic Vibrations
The American practice of "recovering memories" of unspeakable abuse has leaped the Atlantic, and the Pacific as well.
Doug Henning and the Giggling Guru
by Martin Gardner
Volume 19.3, May / June 1995
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
In the 1970s, Doug James Henning’s Magic Show ran on Broadway for more than four years.
