Skeptical Inquirer Archives
Volume 32.1
January / February 2008
Born to Believe
Chiropractic: A Profession Seeking Identity
Council of Europe Approves Resolution against Creationism
Creationism, Catastrophism, and Velikovsky
Dangerous Ideas on the Loose
A Darwinian View of a Hostile Atheist
The Difference between Hahnemann and Darwin
Difficulty in Debunking Myths Rooted in the Way the Mind Works
Exciting UFOs Become Bland IFOs
Haunting Evidence Follow-Up: TV Psychic Detectives Fail Again
How to ‘Haunt’ A House
Is Intelligent Design Creationism?
The Legend of the Pied Piper
New Books
One Large Defeat for Science in Canada
A Painful Legal Case is Resolved in Favor of Open Inquiry
The Science of Chemistry
A Skeptical Consumer’s Look at Chiropractic Claims: Flimflam in Florida?
Stalking the Nutty Notions
Unrivaled Acumen, Communitarian Passion
Volume 31.6
November / December 2007
The Best of All Health Care
Beyond Selfish Genes
Biodynamics in the Wine Bottle
Cosmos and Commentary
Endless Forms, Endless Controversy
The End of the Einstein-Astrology-Supporter Hoax
The Global Warming Debate: Science and Scientists in a Democracy
Governed By Emotion
The Greatest Occultist in Western History?
Interview with Roy Richard Grinker
Letters to the Editor
Masaru Emoto’s Wonderful World of Water
The Netherlands: Visions and Revisions
New Books
Out of Body and in the Lab: New Experiments Stimulate Seeing Self Elsewhere
Over the Hill on UFO Abductions
Paul MacCready (1923-2007)
Protecting Our Valuable Vaccine Programs
Ralph Estling, Eclectic Writer, 1930-2007
Studies Challenge Garlic, Beetroot Treatments against HIV
A Time to Die
Tributes to Barry Beyerstein, Champion of Critical Thinking, Skeptical Inquiry
Tribute to Barry Beyerstein
Vaccine Safety: Vaccines Are One of Public Health’s Great Accomplishments
Weekly World News Dies in Print, Lives On on the Web
What is Common about Common Sense? Perspectives from Anthropology
‘Why Won’t They Admit They’re Wrong?’ and Other Skeptics’ Mysteries
Volume 31.5
September / October 2007
AIDS Denialism and Science
Andrew Franknoi Honored for Excellence in Astronomy Teaching
Betty Hill’s Last Hurrah
Carroll, Forrest, Kroto Elected CSI Fellows; Mooney, Nisbet Named Consultants
CFI Calls for Protecting Science and Research Findings from Political Interference
CSI’s Robert P. Balles Award Goes to Guardian ‘Bad Science’ Columnist Ben Goldacre
Evolution in the Limelight
Fix Your Ruptured Disk without Surgery?
Gallup Polls Show Split on Evolution (Dis)Belief by Politics, Religion
Global Warming: Critical Reaction, Support, and Author Response
How to Survive the Apocalypse
Is This Article on Conspiracies Part of a Conspiracy?
‘John of God’: Healings by Entities?
Letters to the Editor
The Loch Ness Critter
The Man Who Fooled Edison ... but Not Houdini
A Model UFO Debunking
Mythic Creatures, Bigger than Life
New Books
One Small Victory in Canada in Support of Evolution
Quack Attacker Returns after Legal Threat
Quoteworthy
Santa Fe ‘Courthouse Ghost’ Mystery Solved
Skeptical Community Laments Loss of Barry Beyerstein, Psychologist, CSI Council Member
Storm World
This is the Forum Column That Goes Like This
A Welcome Compilation of Classic Critiques
Volume 31.4
July / August 2007
Addressing the Crucial Issues of Stem-Cell Research
An Effective, Positive Approach to Teaching Critical Thinking
A Call to Be Heeded
Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality: Ghosts, Vampires, and Zombies
‘Court TV’ Psychic Loses to Skeptic in Real Court
CSI Executive Council Members Meet in D.C., Speak on Restoring Scientific Integrity
The Earth and Stars in the Lunar Sky
Feng Shui and Monkey Madness at the L.A. Zoo
The Fingerprint Controversy
First They Came for Darwin, Then They Came for Copernicus and Galileo…
Getting It Right, or Brooklyn Is Not Expanding
Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming
Hope for the Future, and Early Reaction on Global Warming
Islam’s Troubled Relationships with Science
Is Dawkins Deluded? When Scientists Talk About Religion
Letters to the Editor
Little Audrey: The Life and Death of a ‘Victim Soul’
Might Fright Cause White?
New Findings Show Some Improvements in U.S. Science Literacy
Peru’s Ancient Mysteries
The PhD Degree and Biblical Fundamentalism
Philadelphia Psychics Shut Down, Then Allowed to Reopen
Psychic Events Workshop Fails APA Curriculum Requirement
The Quest for the ‘Real’ Robin Hood
Stem Cells: President Bush Vows to Protect One-Celled People
The Two-Months Argument for Parapsychological Research
Why I Burned a BIble
Why Religion and Medicine Don’t Mix
Volume 31.3
May / June 2007
A Warming Climate for Climate Warming
Baby, It’s Warm Outside: 2006 Warmest Year on Record in U.S.
Can There Be a Science of Free Will?
Car Carma Car-tastrophe
Celebrating Darwin Day with a New Play in L.A.
Danger! Scientific Inquiry Hazard
Deciphering Da Vinci’s Real Codes
Defending Evolution, but with a Cop-Out
The Devious Art of Improvising: Third and Final Lesson
Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming Part 1
IPCC Climate Report Shows ‘Unequivocal’ Warming, Reduces Uncertainties
Letters to the Editor
Measuring Near-Death Experience
More Signers of Declaration in Defense of Science & Secularism
The Myth of Consistent Skepticism: The Cautionary Case of Albert Einstein
A Pathologist Among the Spirits
PEAR Lab Closes, Ending Decades of Psychic Research
Philip Kitcher Awarded Inaugural $10,000 Prometheus Prize
‘Psychic’ Evans Acquitted on Appeal in Swindling Case
Randi’s Amazing Meeting Returns
Secrets and Lies
Snake-Oil Traders
Sylvia Browne’s Biggest Blunder
Sylvia Browne’s Year to Forget
The Nonsense and Non-science of Sasquatch
Third Strike for Columbia University Prayer Study: Author Plagiarism
Volume 31.2
March / April 2007
A Renewal of Sagan’s Voice on Science, Religion, and Survival
Bible Stories: A Sociologist Looks at Implausible Beliefs in Genesis
Center for Inquiry Launches Naturalism Research Project
CFI Washington Office Opens, Issues Declaration in Defense of Science and Secularism
The Clash of Biotechnology and Post-Christian Spirituality
The Coulter Hoax: How Ann Coulter Exposed the Intelligent Design Movement
Counterproductive Mix of Science and Theology
Dr. Dino Guilty on All Counts in Tax-Fraud Case, Gets Ten Years
Fighting the Fundamentalists: Chamberlain or Churchill?
Fighting the Fundamentalists: Chamberlain or Churchill?
Follies of the Wise
For the God Question, a Biological Perspective
A Free-for-All on Science and Religion
Intellectual and Creative Magnificence
Is Science Gaining New Ground?
Is There Such a Thing as Macroevolution?
Letters to the Editor
Male Pregnancy
Mysterious Entities of the Pacific Northwest, Part II
New Books
NMSR’s Annual Best and Worst Awards for 2006
Old-Time Religion, Old-Time Language
Pat Robertson’s Secret Ingredient
Prayer: A Neurological Inquiry
The Religion Blues
Science’s Vast Cosmic Perspective Eludes Religion
Science, God, and (Non)Belief
Sci Fi Investigates, Finds Only Pseudoscience
Thank Goodness!
