Skeptical Inquirer — Volume 30.5
September / October 2006
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Alleged Psychic Convicted of Murder
by Ben Radford
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
News & Comment
Susan Polk, a self-proclaimed psychic, was convicted on June 16, 2006, of second-degree murder.
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Author, Professor Vern Bullough Dies
by Paul Kurtz
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
News & Comment
Scholar, author, and sexologist Vern Bullough died on June 21, 2006, after a brief illness. He was 78.
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Behind the Mask
by Massimo Polidoro
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Notes on a Strange World
"A masked man lived in the Bastille for years and, still wearing a mask, there he died."
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The Bloodless Fish of Bouvet Island: DNA and Evolution in Action
by Sean B. Carroll
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Article
An obscure bloodless fish living in the remote subfreezing waters of the Antarctic vividly illustrates how evolution works...
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British Defense Study Debunks UFO Sightings
by David Park Musella
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
News & Comment
In 1952, then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill said "What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean?"
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Can Jim Berkland Predict Earthquakes?
by Roger Hunter
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Article
Jim Berkland claims to be able to predict earthquakes. Such earth-shaking claims, however, appear to be groundless.
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Carla Baron, Psychic Detective? Not Quite
by Brian Hart
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
News & Comment
Psychic Detective. The very phrase conjures up an image of Peter Falk as Columbo, wearing his trademark raincoat...
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The Fabricated Cosmonaut and the Nonexistent Prophecy
by Luis Alfonso Gámez
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
News & Comment
Soviet cosmonaut Ivan Istochnikov piloted Soyuz 2, disappeared in space in 1968, and faded from history.
Ghost Hunters
by Joe Nickell
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Investigative Files
Belief that spirits of the dead exist and can appear to the living is both ancient and widespread.
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Go, Go, Ghost Gadgets
by Ben Radford
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Skeptical Inquiree
"On the Sci-Fi Channel show Ghost Hunters, these guys run around with thermal imaging cameras, EMF detectors...
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H.P. Lovecraft and ‘Extraterrestrial Genesis’
by Pat Harrigan
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Article
Review of The Cult of Alien Gods: H.P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture. By Jason Colativo.
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Letters to the Editor
by The Editors
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Letters to the Editor
Responsis to SI 30.3, Is Anyone Out There? SETI and Astrobiology: Four Views
Name Dropping: Want to Be a Star?
by Phil Plait
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Article
If you think that a star can be named after you, and that once one is, it’s all official, think again.
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The Neural Substrates of Moral, Religious, and Paranormal Beliefs
by Marcello Spinella and Omar Wain
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Article
Recent research shows that moral, religious, and paranormal beliefs relate to specific workings of the brain.
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New Psychic Detective (Un)Reality Series: Haunting Evidence
by Ben Radford
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
News & Comment
Following the success of Court TV's "documentary" series Psychic Detectives, the network has launched a new program.
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One More Take on Reductionism vs. Holism
by Massimo Pigliucci
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Thinking About Science
Do you think that nature is characterized by complex systems that interact with each other and whose properties are not...
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Parade’s Rosenfeld Reprises Dubious Acupuncture Claim
by Gary Posner
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
News & Comment
In a July/August 1999 News and Comment Item, "Questioning Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld's China Acupuncture Story," I detailed...
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Plunging into the Depths of a Mystery
by Michael Dennett
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Book Review
Review of Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World's Most Elusive Creatures. By Ben Radford and Joe Nickell.
Predator Panic: A Closer Look
by Ben Radford
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Special Report
“Protect the children.” Over the years that mantra has been applied to countless real and perceived threats.
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Science Ain’t an Exact Science: Public Perception of Science in the Wake of the Stem-cell Fraud
by David Koepsell
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Article
As public awareness and trust of science appears to be waning in the U.S., scientists and supporters of science must be...
Should the NHS Provide Complementary Therapy?
by Edzard Ernst
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Comment and Opinion
On May 23, Prince Charles addressed the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva...
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Skeptic’s Lawsuit Stalls ‘Psychic’ Renier’s Book
by Gary Posner
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
News & Comment
"Psychic Detective" Noreen Renier's memoir, A Mind for Murder, has been pulled by the publisher in response to...
Summing Up Thirty Years of the Skeptical Inquirer
by Paul Kurtz
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Science and the Public
This issue of the Skeptical Inquirer marks the thirtieth year of publication of the official magazine of CSICOP
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Tell It Like It Was
by Susan Bury
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Forum
Some years ago, I attended a lecture by Jared Diamond at the National Academy of Sciences in Washingon, D.C...
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Time Flies LIke an Arrow, but Fruit Flies like Bilked Bananas
by Robert Sheaffer
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Psychic Vibrations
At the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
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Update: Charges against Ontario ‘Healer’ Dropped
by Julia Lavarnway and David Park Musella
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
News & Comment
In the September/October 2005 issue of the Skeptical Inquirer, we reported the arrest on June 14...
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The Vigorous Science of Evolution
by Kendrick Frazier
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
From the Editor
I received a letter the other day that got me thinking...
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Why What We Know Isn’t Necessarily So
by Peter Lamal
Volume 30.5, September / October 2006
Book Review
Review of Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking. By Thomas Kida.
