Skeptical Inquirer — Volume 29.3
May / June 2005
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Alleged Reagan Astrologer Dies
by Joe Nickell
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
News & Comment
Joyce Jillson, the self-styled "Hollywood Astrologer" who claimed to have cast horoscopes for the Reagans, died October 1, 2004.
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‘Ancient Universe’ Booklet Explains the Great Age of the Changing Cosmos
by The Editors
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
News & Comment
In several U.S. states there have been demands that discussions of the Big Bang and the vast age of the universe be excluded...
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Astronomy, Astrology—What’s the Difference? It’s Politics
by Frank Reiser
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
News & Comment
A radio ad that confused astronomy with astrology was used to ridicule Joel Trella for taking college courses in astronomy...
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Bad Science, Bad Fiction, and an Agenda
by Chris Mooney
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Book Review
Review of State of Fear. By Michael Crichton.
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Brains, Biology, Science, and Skepticism: On Thinking about Sex Differences (Again)
by Carol Tavris
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
News & Comment
In 1977, my friend and colleague Carole Wade and I wrote one of the first textbooks in women's studies...
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Centuries-old Puzzle Solved by Calgary Teen
by David Park Musella
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
News & Comment
In the early part of the sixteenth century, German artist, engraver, and master of perspective Albrecht Durer, who often...
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Claims of Invalid ‘Shroud’ Radiocarbon Date Cut from Whole Cloth
by Joe Nickell
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Special Report
A Longtime Shroud of Turin devotee now admits there is the equivalent of watercolor paint on the alleged burial cloth of Jesus.
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A Closer Look at Medium
by William Harwood
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Television Review
Discussion of the NBC series.
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CSICOP Launches Creation Watch Web Site
by The Editors
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
News & Comment
In an effort to help counter the misinformation spread on the Internet by creationist groups, the Committee for...
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CSI’s Anthony Zuiker: TV’s Man of the Century?
by Chris Volkay
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
News & Comment
I nominate Anthony E. Zuiker as TV's man of the century.
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Florida Legislators, FSU Faculty Clash over Proposed Chiropractic School at University
by John Gaeddert
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
News & Comment
A proposed chiropractic school at Florida State has pitted state legislators against faculty in a battle that is equal parts...
Getting the Monkey off Darwin’s Back: Four Common Myths About Evolution
by Charles Sullivan and Cameron Mcpherson Smith
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Article
Evolution is poorly characterized by certain commonly used phrases.
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Indian Rationalist H. Narasimhaiah Dies at 84
by Amardeo Sarma
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
News & Comment
Eminent rationalist H. Narasimhaiah, founder of the Bangalore Science Forum, CSICOP Fellow, and eminent skeptic, died January...
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Internet Group Donates Evolution Texts to Dover High School
by The Editors
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
News & Comment
An international e-mail group that focuses on opposing the teaching of Intelligent Design creationism has donated over twenty...
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Joe Nickell Replies
by Joe Nickell
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Follow-up
Ray Rogers largely sidesteps my criticisms. He claimed to have uniquely found cotton and madder on the shroud's radiocarbon...
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Johnny Carson Remembered
by James Randi
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Special Report
A very bright light in my life has gone out. Forgive me if what follows is a little disorganized, but I've just heard that...
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Kindness Explained
by Peter Lamal
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Book Review
Review of Kindness in a Cruel World: The Evolution of Altruism. By Nigel Barber.
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Letters to the Editor
by The Editors
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Letters to the Editor
Responses to the January / February 2005 Skeptical Inquirer, Critical Thinking About Energy
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Loftus Wins $200,000 Grawemeyer Award for Her Memory Research
by The Editors
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
News & Comment
CSICOP Fellow Elizabeth Loftus, a noted memory expert and professor of psychology and law at the University of California...
Natasha Demkina: The Girl with Normal Eyes
by Andrew A. Skolnick
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Article
Many in Russia and the United Kingdom believe a teenage girl can identify diseases in patients better than their physicians.
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Newspaper’s ‘Psychic Experts’ Wash Out with Hurricane Predictions
by Gary Posner
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
News & Comment
Like Frances did three weeks earlier, Hurricane Jeanne cut a swatch of destruction across central Florida, striking the east...
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Nonsense in Vogue
by Phil Molé
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Book Review
Review of The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense: A Guide for Edgy People. By Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangtoom.
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Psychic’ Con Artist Caught in Police Sting
by David Park Musella
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
News & Comment
At the Bayou Lacombe Crab Festival, a resident of Louisiana had a reading performed by a supposed psychic who called herself...
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Psychic Swindlers
by Amy Davis
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Article
An investigative television reporter looking into a shady psychic uncovers a dangerous underworld of fraud and scams.
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Quoteworthy
by The Editors
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
News & Comment
Science is always more unsolved questions, and its great advantage is you can prove something is true or something...
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Rebuttal to Joe Nickell
by Raymond N. Rogers
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Follow-up
Joe Nickell has attacked my scientific competence and honesty in his "Claims of Invalid 'Shroud'...
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Recent Deaths
by The Editors
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
News & Comment
Ernst Mayr, considered by some the leading evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century, one of the architects of...
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Science, Seeing, and Cosmological Worldviews
by Kendrick Frazier
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
From the Editor
Ray Hyman's cover article describes tests he, Wiseman, and Skolnick carried out on the so-called Russian "girl with X-ray eyes."
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Second Sight: The Phenomenon of Eyeless Vision
by Joe Nickell
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Investigative Files
Natasha Demkina claims a special ability: She can supposedly peer inside people's bodies, observe their organs, and diagnose...
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Shark Cartilage Cancer ‘Cure’ Shows Danger of Pseudoscience
by Johns Hopkins University
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
News & Comment
The rising popularity of shark cartilage as an anti-cancer treatment is a triumph of marketing and pseudoscience over reason.
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The So-called Gaia Hypothesis
by Massimo Pigliucci
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Thinking About Science
Is Earth a living organism? Broadly speaking, this is the chief claim of a family of theories often referred to as "Gaia."
Testing Natasha
by Ray Hyman
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Article
Can a seventeen-year-old girl truly "see" inside a person's body? Hyman and colleagues conducted tests to search for the truth.
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There’s a UFO in My Painting!
by Massimo Polidoro
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Notes on a Strange World
"UFOs are not a recent invention, they were seen by our ancestors as well!"
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The Psychologist, the Philosopher, and the Librarian: The Information-literacy Version of CRITIC
by Brad Matthies
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Article
The information-literacy version of CRITIC expands upon Wayne R. Bartz's development of that acronym.
Tsunami Conspiracies and Hollow Moons
by Robert Sheaffer
Volume 29.3, May / June 2005
Psychic Vibrations
As the destruction became clear from the recent tsunami in southern Asia, claims surfaced of strange events associated with it.
