Skeptical Inquirer — Volume 20.4
July / August 1996
Traditional Medicine and Pseudoscience in China: A Report of the Second CSICOP Delegation (Part 1)
by Barry L. Beyerstein and Wallace Sampson
Volume 20.4, July / August 1996
Special Report
The historical rationale for Traditional Chinese Medicine and the growing of these practices by Western practitioners.
Science or Pseudoscience? Pentagon Grant Funds Alternative Health Study
by Carla Selby and Bela Scheiber
Volume 20.4, July / August 1996
Special Report
$355,225 was awarded for a 'laying over of hands,' Therapeutic Touch study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Ghostly Photos
by Joe Nickell
Volume 20.4, July / August 1996
Investigative Files
A rash of new “ghost” photographs is plaguing the Western world.
A View from Russia: Popularization of Science as a Tool against Antiscience
by Boris Shmakin
Volume 20.4, July / August 1996
Forum
In Russia, many parapsychologists, astrologers, and nontraditional doctors and are involved in pseudoscientific investigations.
A Wayward Way to Buddhist Spirituality
by Joseph P. Szimhart
Volume 20.4, July / August 1996
Book Review
Many years ago I wrote to a Tibetan scholar, Nawang Tsering, for information about a mysterious manuscript—
