Skeptical Inquirer Archives
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
Volume 32.5
September / October 2008
Alien Peeping Tom—Film at Eleven
The Amazing Randi Strikes Again
CSI’s Robert P. Balles Award Goes to New York Times Science Writer Natalie Angier
Ben Stein’s Trojan Horse: Mobilizing the State House and Local News Agenda
The Brain on Justice
Corporate Self Interest and Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Depression
The Eighth Gathering for (Martin) Gardner
Exposing Popular ‘Let’s Pretend’ Fantasies
Finally, Sylvia Browne’s Final Tour
From Weeping Icons to Crop Circles: Investigating with Gusto
Hoax Led to Polygamist Sect Raid
Letters to the Editor
Lighthouse Specters
The Myth of Nibiru and the End of the World in 2012
No Safe Level? Science and Seconhand Smoke
Padre Pio: Wonderworker or Charlatan?
Psychic’s False Sex Abuse Claim Threatens Family
Redoing the Math on Nuclear Energy
The Sweet Spirit Sounds of Rosemary Brown
A Trio of Questionable Medical Treatments
The Truth About Brain Science
We’re Wrong More Than We Think
‘We Couldn’t Say It in Print If It Wasn’t True’: Akavar’s Version of Truth in Advertising
Volume 32.4
July / August 2008
AGU Reverses Position on Climate Change
Alternative Science
Anomalous Cognition: A Meeting of Minds?
Anomalous Cognition? A Second Perspective
Arthur C. Clarke Remembered
Arthur C. Clarke Remembered
Arthur ‘N’ Me
The Beginner’s Guide to ‘Holistic’ Wellness
Broadening Our Scientific Horizons
But You Deceived Me! The Necessity of Deception in Investigation of the Paranormal
Clarke, Cognition, and the Presidential Campaign
Controversy Erupts Over Errors, Bias in Textbook Examined by CFI
Court Dismisses Cha Suit, Vindicates Flamm on Questioned Prayer/Fertility Study
Court Dismisses Cha Suit, Vindicates Flamm on Questioned Prayer/Fertility Study
The Fallacy of Misplaced Rationalism
Gardnerian Whimsy and Insight, New and Old
The Idene: An Early Appearance of the Meme’s Meme(s)?
In a Mirror, Darkly: Does Superstition Reflect Rationality?
Likely Voters Prefer Evolution over Creationism
New Books
Paul Kurtz calls Expelled Film ‘Anti-Science Propaganda’
Photoghosts: Images of the Spirit Realm?
A Physicist’s Spirited Defense of String Theory and Science
Physics for the People
Pseudoscientists and Their Worlds
Richard Dawkins Replies
A Skeleton’s Tale: The Origins of Modern Spiritualism
The Spate of Bogus Research Papers from Korean Scientists
Stamps of Approval for Four U.S. Scientists; Carl Sagan Next?
When Faith Kills: Christian Healing at the Expense of Rational Medicine
Volume 32.3
May / June 2008
Anonymous vs. Scientology
Bones of Contention
Brain Neuroimaging Experiments find ‘Evidence against Existence of Psi’ ... or Do They?
Coffee—with Strings
Creationist Peer Review
Dangers of Animal Rights Extremists
Darwin Day 2008: CFI/Los Angeles Stages Rare Reading of Steve Allen’s Meeting of Minds
Electric Asteroid Zaps Earth
Entertainment, Religion, and the Decline of Society
Expelling All Reason
How to Study Reincarnation: Guidelines for Research
If It Exists, It Is Natural
Just Like Jedi Knights (If Only)
Merchandising God: The Pope Tart
NASA’s Mysterious ‘Man on Mars’ Photo
The Nature of the Supernatural
New Books
Scientists say Nullo Modo (No Way) to Pope
Sir Edmund Hillary, Explorer, Skeptic (1919-2008)
Skeptical Ethics— What Should We Investigate?
Some Splainin’ to Do
WARNING: Animal Extremists are Dangerous to Your Health
What Would Jesus Deface?
Volume 32.2
March / April 2008
Alien Ghosts at Roswell
Altercation with a (Criss) Angel
Bad Journalism Misleads Public about Psychics
Bark at the Moon
Born Again, Inc.: Senate Investigating Six Prophets for Profit
CFI Attacks Dismissal of Texas Educator for Her Pro-Evolution Actions
The Comic Pratfalls of Richard Roberts
Declaration Defends Europe’s Genetically Modified Maize
Dennett: Teach Children All the Facts about their Religion
The Force of Change in China
Gary Schwartz’s Energy Healing Experiments: The Emperor’s New Clothes?
Gell-Mann: Reality is Out There . . . and It’s Beautiful
‘I Am Houdini! And You Are a Fraud!’
Let’s Keep Our Cool about Global Warming
Natalee Holloway Disappearance Unsolved; Case Closed
New Books
New National Academy Book Defends Evolution
Quoteworthy
Science Leaders, CFI Call for Science Debate among Presidential Candidates
Ten Million Marriages: An Astrological Detective Story
The Strange Case of Frank Jennings Tipler
Toward a Consilience of Sciences and Humanities?
Tunguska Asteroid Size Downgraded by New Computer Simulations
Two Meanings of ‘Faith’ Confuse Even Scientists
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