Skeptical Inquirer Archives
Volume 30.2
March / April 2006
Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens
Alien Abduction Analysis
Art Bell’s Show Broadcasts Sylvia Browne Failure about Mine Tragedy
A Constructive Look at Destructive Mental Health Trends
The Big Bird, the Big Lie, God, and Science
Carla Baron Psychic Detective Update
Commentary on John P.A. Ionnidis’s ‘Why Most Published Research Findings are False’
Court Decision in Dover Case a Victory for Good Science
Critical Thinking: What Is It Good for? (In Fact, What Is It?)
Evolution Science’s Top Story of the Year
Hoaxers, Hackers, and Policymakers
In Landmark Dover Decision, Judge Rules ID Is Not Science, Teaching It Is Unconstitutional
Is Evolutionary Psychology a Pseudoscience?
It’s a Natural Selection: Evolution Amber Ale
Kansas Professor Relieved of His Chair Over Comments Critical of Intelligent Design
Letters to the Editor
Loon Season in Canada
Ludmil A. Chotkowski, M.D., 1916-2005, Challenged Chiropractic
The Memory Wars: Parts 2 and 3
‘Natural’ Childbirth
New Center for Inquiry Research Building Completed
A Portrait of Darwin for Kids
The Power of Not Thinking Is Not Very Great
The Rampant Politicization of Science
Rare Woodpecker, presumed Extinct, Found in Arkansas
Skepchicks Raise Profile of Female Skeptics
‘We Find That ID Is Not Science’: Excerpts from the Dover Federal Court Ruling on Intelligent Design
The Wrong Question
Volume 30.1
January / February 2006
Andrew Weil: Harvard Hatched a Gullible Guru
The Ethics of Investigation
Examining the Psychology of Belief
The First Ibero-American Conference on Critical Thinking
Florida Study Dismissed ‘Celestial Drops’ to Treat Citrus Blight
Geller Revisited
A Glorious, Dangerous Obsession
It’s All about the Money
Kennewick Man Made Available for Study by Court Order
Letters to the Editor
The Memory Wars
Memory Wars and Monster Stories
New Collection of Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Recreations
Paranormal Beliefs: An Analysis of College Students
Paranormal Researcher Selected as President of National Taiwan University
Phantom Photos: Credulity at the Met Exhibit
Planet X and the Issue of Definitions in Science
‘Psychic’ Sex Offender Sentenced to Prison
Rocketry and Wizardry
Science Looks for Bigfoot but Finds Bison
Science Sheds Light on Giant Squid
SI Editor Kendrick Frazier Elected a Fellow of the AAAS
Something Seen, but What? Quebec’s ‘Wippi’ Whips Up a Minor Monster Flap
‘Toward a New Enlightenment’ World Congress
Understanding Evolution Web Site Expanded
What ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know: An Analysis of Kevin Trudeau’s Natural Cures
Why Did They Bury Darwin in Westminster Abbey?
Will Hack for Extraterrestrials
Volume 29.6
November / December 2005
AGU: President Confuses Science and Belief, Puts Schoolchildren at Risk
Bigfoot in Life and Legend
Can Atheists Be Ethical and Virtuous?
Center for Inquiry Granted Representation at the United Nations
Developing Perspectives on Anomalous Experiences
Does Irreducible Complexity Imply Intelligent Design?
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: A New Revolution in Biology
Evolution and the ID Wars
Fullerton Underpass: The Lost Episodes
Harris Poll Explores Beliefs about Evolution, Creationism, and Intelligent Design
Just the Facts, Ma’am: Empirical vs. Rationalist Approaches to Understanding
Letters to the Editor
New-Agey Feldenkrais
Obfuscating Biological Evolution
Only a Theory? Framing the Evolution/Creation Issue
Philip J. Klass (1919-2005)
Plane Crash Survival: Miracle or Skill and Science?
Police Chief Misleads Viewers on Psychic Detectives
Praying for Jane
‘Psychic Swindler’ in San Antonio Convicted of Theft by Coercion
Real-world Use of the Word Theory
Recent News on Alternative Medicine
Robert A. Baker (1921-2005)
Science Wars II: Science and the Bush Administration
Skeptics and TV News Expose ‘Magnetic Water Conditioners’
Teen in Aruba, Others Still Missing Despite Psychics
The Pope and I
This Fall’s Flood of Paranormal Programming
Top 25 Science Questions: A Stimulating List of What We Don’t Know
The Trick Was a Trick
Velikovsky Papers to Princeton University
What Should We Think about Americans’ Beliefs Regarding Evolution?
Why Scientists Get So Angry When Dealing with ID Proponents
‘Winking Jesus’ Statue: Mystery Solved!
Volume 29.5
September / October 2005
Beware of Poltergeists
Beware of Quacks at the WHO: Objecting to the WHO Draft Report on Homeopathy
Bill Nye Launches ‘The Eyes of Nye’
Deadly Rituals: Nun Dies During Convent Exorcism
The Elixir of Life: Green Tea or Red Wine?
Eloquent but Gloomy
Famous ‘Psychic Healer’ Arrested in Toronto
Gallup Poll Shows that Americans’ Belief in the Paranormal Persists
Isaac Newton, Astrologer?
Italian Skeptics Debunk Crop Circle Radiation Claim
Italy’s ‘Miracle’ Relics
‘Jane Doe’ Recovered Memory Lawsuit Appeal
Letters to the Editor
Mystical Experiences: Magnetic Fields or Suggestibility?
Obesity Epidemic? Elixirs of Life? Where’s the Truth?
On Problems with Near-light-speed Travel
Palm Readers, Stargazers, and Scientists: A Critique of Futurism
PBS Series Nova to Feature ‘Einstein’s Big Idea’
The Power and Perils of Metaphors in Science
Questioning the Obesity Myth
Special Relativity after 100 Years
Statistics of the Natasha Test: Response to Concerns and Questions
Sylvia Browne’s Latest: Ghost-Written?
These Files May Be ‘Real-Life’—But Is She Really ‘Psychic’?
Tom Cruise, Scientology Bash Psychiatry; APA Fires Back
Tom Cruise, Scientology Bash Psychiatry; APA Fires Back
An Unusual Twist in Testing Media Psychics
We Can Still Learn Lessons from Einstein’s Watershed Year
Volume 29.4
July / August 2005
Are the Historical Sciences Sciences?
Carl Sagan Takes Questions: More From His ‘Wonder and Skepticism’ CSICOP 1994 Keynote
The Case of the ‘Psychic Detectives’
Copeland’s Delusions
Fakers and Innocents: The One Million Dollar Challenge and Those Who Try for It
How Do You Solve a Problem Like a (Fritjof) Capra?
Letters to the Editor
NASA Comet Collision to Disrupt Earth’s ‘Psychic Environment,’ Says Russian Astrologer
Our Lady of the Underpass
Police, Psychics Search for ‘Abducted’ Runaway Bride
Randi’s Pigasus Awards Go to Prayer Study, Psychic Travel, Ramtha ‘Bleep’ Film
Seeking a Sixth Sense
The Social Context of Cults
The Story of a ‘Greata’ Medium
Thoughts on Thought Control
Time for Science to Go on the Offense
Tsunami Rumors Cause Ongoing Waves of Fear
Voodoo Science and Voodoo Politics in Florida
What Should We Do with Skepticism?
Where the UFO Conspiracy Theories Roam
‘World’s Most Documented Psychic’ Fails to Find Abducted Granddaughter
Volume 29.3
May / June 2005
Alleged Reagan Astrologer Dies
‘Ancient Universe’ Booklet Explains the Great Age of the Changing Cosmos
Astronomy, Astrology—What’s the Difference? It’s Politics
Bad Science, Bad Fiction, and an Agenda
Brains, Biology, Science, and Skepticism: On Thinking about Sex Differences (Again)
Centuries-old Puzzle Solved by Calgary Teen
Claims of Invalid ‘Shroud’ Radiocarbon Date Cut from Whole Cloth
A Closer Look at Medium
CSICOP Launches Creation Watch Web Site
CSI’s Anthony Zuiker: TV’s Man of the Century?
Florida Legislators, FSU Faculty Clash over Proposed Chiropractic School at University
Getting the Monkey off Darwin’s Back: Four Common Myths About Evolution
Indian Rationalist H. Narasimhaiah Dies at 84
Internet Group Donates Evolution Texts to Dover High School
Joe Nickell Replies
Johnny Carson Remembered
Kindness Explained
Letters to the Editor
Loftus Wins $200,000 Grawemeyer Award for Her Memory Research
Natasha Demkina: The Girl with Normal Eyes
Newspaper’s ‘Psychic Experts’ Wash Out with Hurricane Predictions
Nonsense in Vogue
Psychic’ Con Artist Caught in Police Sting
Psychic Swindlers
Quoteworthy
Rebuttal to Joe Nickell
Recent Deaths
Science, Seeing, and Cosmological Worldviews
Second Sight: The Phenomenon of Eyeless Vision
Shark Cartilage Cancer ‘Cure’ Shows Danger of Pseudoscience
The So-called Gaia Hypothesis
There’s a UFO in My Painting!
The Psychologist, the Philosopher, and the Librarian: The Information-literacy Version of CRITIC
