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Volume 29.1

January / February 2005

Alien-Abduction Guru Mack Killed in Accident

Joe Nickell

Betty Hill, First ‘Alien Abductee,’ Dies

Joe Nickell

Bits of Bogus Science Preceding Piltdown

John Whittaker

Brave Thoughts Are Still Not the Truth

Vitaly L. Ginzburg

Critical Inquiry, and Thinking About Galileo

Kendrick Frazier

Critical Thinking About Energy: The Case for Decentralized Generation of Electricity

Thomas R. Casten and Brennan Downes

Critics Ravage ‘Hoax’ New Age

Ben Radford

Demagogues against Scientific Expertise

Vitaly L. Ginzburg

Exploring Controversies in the Art and Science of Polygraph Testing

John Ruscio

Facts and Fiction in the Kennedy Assassination

Massimo Polidoro

A Giant Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Greg Martinez

Hurricane Osama?

Robert Sheaffer

In the Land of Galileo, Fifth World Skeptics Congress Solves Mysteries, Champions Scientific Outlook

Kendrick Frazier

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane,  It’s… an Angel?

Dave Brooks

Letters to the Editor

The Editors

The Mary Celeste: A Very Plausible Explanation

Terence M. Hines

Metabolife Founder Michael Ellis Charged with Lying to FDA

David Park Musella

Mystery Painting: ‘The Shadow of the Cross’

Joe Nickell

Natural Medicine: Will That Be a Pill or a Needle?

William H. Baarschers

Paranormal Expo Cancelled Under Cloud

Jim Underdown

Piltdown and How Science Really Works

Massimo Pigliucci

Psychics (Don’t) Explain Missing September 11

Ben Radford

Raelian Update: Sex, Pseudoscience, and Sacrilege

Kevin Christopher

Randi: That’s Amazing

Kendrick Frazier

Some Reasons for Caution about the Bigfoot Film Exposé

Michael Dennett

Stupid Things

Ralph Estling

The World of Galileo Galilei

Kendrick Frazier

Volume 28.6

November / December 2004

And the Mechanism Is ...

Massimo Pigliucci

APS’s Bob Park Elected a CSICOP Fellow

The Editors

Bacteria, Ulcers, and Ostracism? H. Pylori and the Making of a Myth

Kimball C. Atwood

Biblical Pseudoarchaeology by a Swedish Professor of Medicine

Martin Rundkvist

Blind Spots, Brain Maps, and Backaches: A New Chiropractic Delusion

Harriet Hall

A Call for Attention to Climate Change

Chris Mooney

David Morrison Named 2004 Sagan Medalist

The Editors

Discovering Human Interconnection Through the History of Our Genes

Mark Durm

Explaining the Plagues of Egypt

Jeffrey A. Lee

Fortuneteller Allowed at Fair Despite Law

Ben Radford

French Group Tests Man’s Claims to Sense a Person’s Presence

Kendrick Frazier

Is Science Making Us More Ignorant?

Austin Dacey

Letters to the Editor

The Editors

My Wife—and the Dialectics of External Historicity

Ralph Estling

New Details Emerge About Psychic’s Airline Bomb Threat Tip

Ben Radford

Nobelist Francis Crick, Stalwart Supporter of CSICOP and the Center for Inquiry, Mourned

Paul Kurtz

The Path to Discovery and the Impact on Culture

Kendrick Frazier

Prayers, Psychics Fail to Find Missing Women

Ben Radford

Psychic Sylvia Browne Once Failed to Foresee Her Own Criminal Conviction

Joe Nickell

Rorschach Icons

Joe Nickell

Russian Reports Add New Twist to Old Tunguska UFO Myth

James Oberg

The Secrets of Rennes-le-Château

Massimo Polidoro

Senate Intelligence Committee Highlights Need for Skeptical Inquiry

Ben Radford

Stupid Dino Tricks: A Visit to Kent Hovind’s Dinosaur Adventure Land

Greg Martinez

Tunguska 1, Roswell 0

Robert Sheaffer

Well, Larry—You’ve Done It Again

Bryan Farha

Why SETI Is Science and UFOlogy Is Not: A Space Science Perspective on Boundaries

Mark Moldwin

Volume 28.5

September / October 2004

The Campeche, Mexico ‘Infrared UFO’ Video

Robert Sheaffer

Can the Sciences Help Us to Make Wise Ethical Judgments?

Paul Kurtz

The Columbia University ‘Miracle’ Study: Flawed and Fraud

Bruce Flamm

Lady Homeopathy Strikes Back. . . But Science Wins Out

Massimo Polidoro

What the #$*! Do They Know?

Eric Scerri

Volume 28.4

July / August 2004

Capital Punishment and Homicide: Sociological Realities and Econometric Illusions

Ted Goertzel

Fundamental Cosmological Understanding Eludes Us

James N. Gardner

Pranks, Frauds, and Hoaxes from Around the World

Robert Carroll

Toutatis Threatens Totally

Robert Sheaffer

Volume 28.3

May / June 2004

Belgium Skeptics Commit Mass Suicide

Luc Bonneux

Bridging the Chasm between Two Cultures

Karla McLaren

The Cold War’s Classified Skyhook Program: A Participant’s Revelations

B.D. Gildenberg

Darkness, Tunnels, and Light

G.M. Woerlee

Volume 28.2

March / April 2004

The Case of the Holy Fraudster

Massimo Polidoro

Development of Beliefs in Paranormal and Supernatural Phenomena

Christopher H. Whittle

From Internet Scams to Urban Legends, Planet (hoa)X to the Bible Code

Kendrick Frazier

In Praise of Ray Hyman

James Alcock

The Stigmata of Lilian Bernas

Joe Nickell

Why Is Religion Natural?

Pascal Boyer