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."
A Skeptical Look at a Remarkable Case Report of ‘Overnight’ Amnesia
by Harald Merckelbach, Thomas Merten, and Scott O. Lilienfeld
Volume 35.3, May/June 2011
Article
Extraordinary Symptoms, Weak Evidence, and a Breakdown in Peer Review
Power Lines and Cancer, Distant Healing and Health Care: Magnetism Misrepresented and Misunderstood
by Eugenie V. Mielczarek and Derek C. Araujo1
Volume 35.3, May/June 2011
Article
The 1990s fear that background magnetic fields—hundreds of times weaker than Earth’s magnetic field—could cause cancer has been replaced.
We Live in Perilous Times for Science
by Elizabeth Loftus
Volume 35.3, May/June 2011
Commentary
If we as scientists want to preserve our freedom (and the welfare of others), now more than ever we have a responsibility.
The Case of the Miracle Oil
by Joe Nickell
Volume 35.3, May/June 2011
Investigative Files
I was invited to a home in Northern California where myriad icons, statues, and other religious effigies were “miraculously streaming oil”.
I Was a Teenage Psychic
by Massimo Polidoro
Volume 35.3, May/June 2011
Notes on a Strange World
As a guest on a popular Italian TV show, L’Istruttoria (The Inquest), I had a chance to test a theory I was rather curious about.
The Memory of Water
by Steven Novella
Volume 35.3, May/June 2011
The Science of Medicine
While the practice is indistinguishable from ritual and witchcraft, the modern homeopath would like to cloak himself in the respectability of science.
Back from the Future: Parapsychology and the Bem Affair
by James Alcock
Volume 35.2, March/April 2011
Article
Psychologist Daryl Bem has reported data suggesting that future experiences can influence responses in the present. Careful scrutiny of his report reveals ...
Heaven’s Stenographer: The ‘Guided’ Hand of Vassula Ryden
by Joe Nickell
Volume 35.2, March/April 2011
Investigative Files
She claims to receive communications not only from her guardian angel, “Daniel,” but also from Jesus and even Yahweh himself, who guide her hand ...
Strange Problems in the Wegman Report
by John R. Mashey
Volume 35.2, March/April 2011
Special Report
A computer scientist discusses the roles of plagiarism, conspiracies, anti-science memes, and intense beliefs in a global-warming denying report.
Magic or Miracle?
by Massimo Polidoro
Volume 35.2, March/April 2011
Notes on a Strange World
A Lesson Worth Remembering
