Skeptical Inquirer — Volume 29.6
November / December 2005
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AGU: President Confuses Science and Belief, Puts Schoolchildren at Risk
by The Editors
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Featurette
The following statement was issued by the American Geophysical Union in Washington on August 2, 2005.
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Bigfoot in Life and Legend
by Ben Radford
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Book Review
Review of Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend. By David J. Daegling.
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Can Atheists Be Ethical and Virtuous?
by Peter Lamal
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Book Review
Review of Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe. By Erik J. Wielenberg.
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Center for Inquiry Granted Representation at the United Nations
by Ben Radford
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
News & Comment
CFI, which is the parent organization of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal,,,
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Developing Perspectives on Anomalous Experiences
by Julia Santomauro
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Special Report
As readers of the Skeptical Inquirer are aware, anomalous experiences are commonly reported...
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Does Irreducible Complexity Imply Intelligent Design?
by Mark Perakh
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Article
Michael Behe's "irreducible complexity," according to "design theorists," implies Intelligent Design of biological systems.
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: A New Revolution in Biology
by Sean B. Carroll
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Article
Over the past two decades, a revolution has unfolded in biology. Advances in embryology and evolutionary development biology...
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Evolution and the ID Wars
by Kendrick Frazier
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
From the Editor
We devote the core of this issue to Evolution and the ID Wars. The "Intelligent Design" movement is the most pernicious...
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Fullerton Underpass: The Lost Episodes
by Jim Underdown
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
News & Comment
When the story broke in April about hundreds of people visiting the Fullerton underpass at the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago...
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Harris Poll Explores Beliefs about Evolution, Creationism, and Intelligent Design
by The Editors
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Article
There is an enormous gap between the firmness of the evidence for evolution and the American public's beliefs about it.
The Intelligent Designer
by Irving Rothchild
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Poem
Is it female or male? Does it have any sex? / Does it come with a name, like Jane, Irving, or Rex?
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Just the Facts, Ma’am: Empirical vs. Rationalist Approaches to Understanding
by Massimo Pigliucci
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Thinking About Science
Skeptics tend to be empiricists. They want the facts. Indeed, it is this emphasis on empirically verifiable statements that...
Legends of Castles and Keeps
by Joe Nickell
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Investigative Files
During the Middle Ages, the castle arose as the private fortress of a monarch or nobleman.
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Letters to the Editor
by The Editors
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Letters to the Editor
Responses to SI volume 29.4, Carl Sagan: Questions and Answers from His 1994 Keynote Address
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New-Agey Feldenkrais
by Ben Radford
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Skeptical Inquiree
My sister-in-law is a Feldenkrais practitioner. She always wants to give us treatments. What is this?
Obfuscating Biological Evolution
by Elie A. Shneour
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Article
On May 5, 1925, biology teacher John Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for the crime of teaching Darwin's "theory of evolution."
Only a Theory? Framing the Evolution/Creation Issue
by David Morrison
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Article
Evolution opponents are framing the issues to our disadvantage.
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Philip J. Klass (1919-2005)
by Robert Sheaffer
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
News & Comment
The man who was indisputably the most influential UFO skeptic of all time passed away August 9 at the age of 85.
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Plane Crash Survival: Miracle or Skill and Science?
by Ben Radford
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
News & Comment
On August 2, 2005, amid heavy rain and lightning, Air France Flight 358 from Paris, France, to Toronto, Canada, crashed.
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Police Chief Misleads Viewers on Psychic Detectives
by Gary Posner
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
News & Comment
An episode of Court TV's Psychic Detectives series titled "Dressed to Kill," recreated "psychic" John Monti's role in a 1988...
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Praying for Jane
by Susan Bury
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Forum
A dear friend of mine, Jane, drowned recently during a canoe accident on a river rapids in an Ontario wilderness...
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‘Psychic Swindler’ in San Antonio Convicted of Theft by Coercion
by David Park Musella
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
News & Comment
Jennifer Nicole Evans, the San Antonio, Texas, fortuneteller whose crimes were chronicled in an article in the May/June 2005...
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Real-world Use of the Word Theory
by The Editors
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Featurette
The following examples were encountered in the summer of 2005:
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Recent News on Alternative Medicine
by Kim Stewart and David Park Musella
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
News & Comment
Recent items in the news
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Robert A. Baker (1921-2005)
by Joe Nickell
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
News & Comment
Robert A. Baker—one of the world's preeminent authorities on such phenomena as ghosts, alien abductions, religious apparitions..
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Science Wars II: Science and the Bush Administration
by Chris Mooney
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Doubt and About
Whistleblowers from branches of government ranging from the Climate Change Science Program to the Bureau of Land Management...
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Skeptics and TV News Expose ‘Magnetic Water Conditioners’
by Dave Thomas
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Special Report
The afternoon of Thursday, June 23, was splendidly sunny in Albuquerque, and 1 was leaving the office to drive over to...
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Teen in Aruba, Others Still Missing Despite Psychics
by Ben Radford
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
News & Comment
Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared in the early hours of May 30, 2005, while on vacation in the Dutch Caribbean...
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The Pope and I
by Lawrence M. Krauss
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Article
Much of my popular writing in newspapers over the past several years has been devoted to trying to clearly lay out...
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This Fall’s Flood of Paranormal Programming
by Barry Karr
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
News & Comment
It appears that no matter where you click with your remote control these days, the new fall television lineup is certain to...
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Top 25 Science Questions: A Stimulating List of What We Don’t Know
by Kendrick Frazier
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
News & Comment
Science thrives on seeking solutions to unanswered questions.
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The Trick Was a Trick
by Greg Martinez
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Book Review
Review of The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick: How a Spectacular Hoax Became History. By Peter Lamont.
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Velikovsky Papers to Princeton University
by Kendrick Frazier
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
News & Comment
The papers of Russian-born American author Immanuel Velikovsky have a new home in the Princeton University Library.
What Should We Think about Americans’ Beliefs Regarding Evolution?
by Lawrence S. Lerner
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Article
In interpreting poll results, we should be careful about their underlying meaning.
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Why Scientists Get So Angry When Dealing with ID Proponents
by Jason Rosenhouse
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
Article
Intelligent Design proponents are constantly quoting scientists out of context to make it wrongly appear they have grave...
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‘Winking Jesus’ Statue: Mystery Solved!
by Joe Nickell
Volume 29.6, November / December 2005
News & Comment
On July 28, 2005—according to a Hoboken, New Jersey, street "preacher"— a plaster Jesus statue he had installed...
