Skeptical Inquirer Archives
Volume 33.5
September / October 2009
Ask The Outlaw Skeptic
Bobby Fischer: Genius and Idiot
Can a Reasonable Skeptic Support Climate Change Legislation?
Cell Phones, Power Lines, Video Games…and Much Else
Comments on NDE Experiment: Ethical Concerns
Comments on NDE Experiment: Ethical Concerns
Does Subliminal Persuasion Work? It Depends on Your Motivation and Awareness.
Eusapia Palladino, Queen of the Cabinet, Part 3
Exercising the Brain Gym
Hidden Messages
The Last Laugh
Leadership Changes at the Center for Inquiry
Letters to the Editor
Logophobia
Modern-Day DaVinci’s ROM: Range of Motion or Rip Off Machine?
NDE Experiment: Ethical Concerns
New Champ Lake Monster Video Surfaces
‘None of This Is True’: Do Disclaimers about the Paranormal Really Work?
Power Line Panic and Mobile Mania
The Questionable Research of Hans Holzer, Dean of Ghost Hunters (1920-2009)
Skeptic’s Web Site Becomes Advertising for Psychic Business
The Pseudoscience of Anti-Anti-UFOlogy
Third Annual IIG Awards: Mythbusters and Nickell Honored, Ben Stein Lampooned.
The Varied Concepts of ‘Epidemic’ and Our Varied Reactions
Violent Video Games: Dogma, Fear, and Pseudoscience
What’s New? Observations on Science and Fringe Science from Bob Park
Volume 33.4
July / August 2009
An Apologia with a Transparent Strategy
Bigelow’s Aerospace and Saucer Emporium
Big Scientific Controversy over Little Hobbit People of Flores
Borneo’s River Monster Photo: Living Legend or Hoax?
Careful Phrasing: A Matter of Life and Death
CFI World Congress: More Highlights
Chiropractic Neck Manipulation and Informed Consent
Crystal Balls in Chains
CSI’s Balles Prize Goes to Physicist/Author Leonard Mlodinow
CSI Solves New Jersey UFO Mystery
The Deadwood Ghost Photo
Eusapia Palladino, Queen of the Cabinet, Part 2
A Graphic Guide to Grabbing a Precious Pro-Religion Prize
Highlights of CFI’s Twelfth World Congress: Science, Public Policy, and the Planetary Community
John Maddox, Longtime Nature Editor and CSI Fellow, Dies
Letters to the Editor
Michael Dennet, Skeptic and Bigfoot Investigator, Dies
New Books
Nonreligious Portion of U.S. Population Growing, Survey Finds
Obama on Science, Discovery, and Open Inquiry
On Evolution, Abortion, and Astrology
On the Moon
Pathology or Paradigm Shift? Human Evolution, Ad Hominem Science and the Anomolous Hobbits of Flores
Randi, Krauss, Kurtz Honored with Major Awards
A Tribute to Jerry Andrus—Magician, Creator of Master Illusions
Whats Wrong with the I Ching? Ambiguity, Obscurity, and Synchronicity
Volume 33.3
May / June 2009
Autism-Vaccine Link Researcher Andrew Wakefield Accused of Faking His Data
Cardiff’s Giant Hoax
CFI/Los Angeles Celebrates Darwin’s 200th Birthday with Readings, Plays, Lecture
Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea
Eusapie Palladino, the Queen of the Cabinet, Part 1
Ghosts, Doughnuts, and A Christmas Carol: Investigating New Mexico’s ‘Haunted’ KiMo Theater
The Great Global Cooling Myth
Hard and Soft Science: Physics vs. Psychology
It’s What We Do
Letters to the Editor
Life and Planet
A Modern Witch Craze in Papua New Guinea
More Studies Reject Vaccine-Autism Link
The Pseudoscience of Personalysis
Putting Your Money Where Your MInd Is
Remembering Henry Gordon, Magician, Skeptic, Debunker
Report Knocks Baylor Claim about American Religiosity
Repower America? Science Commmunication and the Obama Presidency
The Roots of Skepticism
Science and Pseudoscience in Adult Nutrition Research and Practice
Scientists Hail Gallo’s ‘Unsung’ Role in Nobel HIV/AIDS Discovery
Volume 33.2
March / April 2009
Bearing False Witness for Profit
A Christian Physicist’s Dispatch from the Evolution Wars
Critique of ‘The Bipolar Bamboozle’
Curious Contrails: Death from the Sky?
Deep History or Shallow Cognition? Cognitive Biases and ‘Esoteric History’
Dutch, Belgian Creationist Groups Unite to Bring Anti-Evolution Message to Six Million
Happy Birthday, Mr. Darwin
How to Get Rich Quickly with ‘Alternative’ Medicine
The Information You’ve Been Provided Ain’t Necessarily So
It’s Scary, But Not the Way They Intend
Judge Jones and the Science/Religion Debate at Ohio State
Lessons about Burdens on American Cryptology
New Books
The Pearl Harbor ‘Winds Message’ Controversy: A New Critical Evaluation
The Potential Habitable Zone on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
Questioning Conventional Wisdom on Science-Related Issues
Response to the Critique of the ‘Bipolar Bamboozle’
Science and Antiscience in America: Why It Matters
Science, Reason, and the Obama Administration
Six Common Medical Myths that Gain Wide Attention
The Tree of Life
UFOs by the Numbers
What Do Skeptics Need to Explain?
What Open-Mindedness Requires
Volume 33.1
January / February 2009
An Astronomer Looks at UFOs: A Lot Less than Meets the Eye
‘Buzzing Bee’ Missile Mythology Flies Again
Cyberonics Responds to Barglow’s ‘Corpoate Self-Interest and Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Depression’
Discovery of HIV Nets 2008 Nobel Prize for Two French Virologists
Experimental Philosophy, an Oxymoron?
FTC Warns Against Bogus Cancer Cures, Charges Five Companies
Kansas Gym Ghost Video Mystery Solved
Letters to the Editor
The Minsk UFO Case: Misperception and Exaggeration
Nazi Saucers and Antigravity
New Books
Response to Cyberonics Letter of Criticism
Roswell Update: Fading Star?
Same Planet, Different Worldview
Sid the Science Kid: Meet Bill Nye for the Preschool Set
Skeptics Create Creepy Café
The Stephenville Lights: What Actually Happened
The Trained Observer of Unusual Things in the Sky (UFOs?)
UFOlogy 2009: A Six-Decade Perspective
UFOs: an Assessment of Thirty Years of Official Studies in France
UFOs: Fact and Fiction—A Special Issue
XanGo Juice: Miracle or Myth?
Volume 32.6
November / December 2008
Asteroids Named for Skeptics, Authors, Science Educators
Charles Fort’s Life and Legacy of Strangeness
The Curious Case of Street Lamp Interference
The Emperor’s Postmodern Clothes
Firebombings Target University Animal Researchers
Georgia Bigfoot Hoax Draws Global Attention
Ghosts and Ion Counters
‘Hex’ Signs: Searching for the Magic
Is ‘Knol’ for Knowledge or for Pseudoknowledge?
Jon Beckjord, Advocate of a Paranormal Bigfoot (1939-2008)
Keeping Ahead of the News
Letters to the Editor
Love at First Sight
Mickelson, McKellar Tout Science, Math, and Being Smart
A Mind for Murdergate
More Cool Careers for Dummies: Ghost Hunter
Mr. Belloc Objects
Nocturnal Lights and Sounds Baffle Maryland Town…for Awhile
Purdue Panel Finds Scientific Misconduct in Researcher’s Bubble Fusion Reports
Quantum Weirdness: An Analogy from the Time of Newton
Secrets of Spectacularly Skewered Skin
Secular Sunshine as the Best Disinfectant
The Skeptic Meets the Moral Panic
Statistically Significant Results vs. Oomph
Unproven or Disproven Treatments—Why Would Anyone Want to Use Them?
Where’s the Responsibility? UK Broadcasting Code Prevents Re-Airing Psychic’s Failure