Skeptical Inquirer — Volume 31.3
May / June 2007
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A Warming Climate for Climate Warming
by Kendrick Frazier
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
From the Editor
Our report in this issue, "Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming" was in production when the IPCC released...
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Baby, It’s Warm Outside: 2006 Warmest Year on Record in U.S.
by The Editors
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
News & Comment
Last year's average annual temperature for the contiguous United States was the warmest on record, scientists with the NOAA...
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Can There Be a Science of Free Will?
by Massimo Pigliucci
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Thinking About Science
A splendid article by Dennis Overbye in The New York Times gave me the impetus to talk about...
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Car Carma Car-tastrophe
by Geoffrey Dean
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
News & Comment
In December 2006, Lee Romanov, the president of the Toronto-based insurancehotline.com, announced the results of her survey...
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Celebrating Darwin Day with a New Play in L.A.
by Bob Ladendorf
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
News & Comment
In a span of eighty years, the teaching and science of evolution has been under siege in America, from the 1925 Scopes trial...
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Danger! Scientific Inquiry Hazard
by Alan J. Scott
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Article
A physicist presents an overview of affronts to science and creates a whimsical hazard symbol to further describe them.
Debating Creationists
by Charles L. Rulon
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Forum
I was asked by the Anthropology Club to debate a scientist from the Discovery Institute regarding intelligent design.
Deciphering Da Vinci’s Real Codes
by Joe Nickell
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Investigative Files
Leonardo da Vinci was something of a cryptographer, and much attention has been given his various "codes".
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Defending Evolution, but with a Cop-Out
by Kenneth W. Krause
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Book Review
Review of The Top Ten Myths about Evolution. By Cameron M. Smith and Charles Sullivan.
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The Devious Art of Improvising: Third and Final Lesson
by Massimo Polidoro
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Notes on a Strange World
"You say that Uri Geller is a psychic because he did this. Now if I were able to do it, would you say I'm a psychic?"
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Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming Part 1
by Stuart D. Jordan
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Article
This paper will offer up compelling evidence from a large body of research that global climate change caused by global...
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IPCC Climate Report Shows ‘Unequivocal’ Warming, Reduces Uncertainties
by Kendrick Frazier
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
News & Comment
The long-awaited international report summarizing the latest and best thinking of the world's scientists about climate change...
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Letters to the Editor
by The Editors
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Letters to the Editor
Responses to the January/February 2007 Skeptical Inquirer
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Measuring Near-Death Experience
by Ben Radford
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Skeptical Inquiree
While researching near-death experience, I came across a so-called Greyson Scale, which is claimed to be...
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More Signers of Declaration in Defense of Science & Secularism
by The Editors
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
News & Comment
The following signers of the Declaration in Defense of Science and Secularism, issued by the Center for Inquiry...
The Myth of Consistent Skepticism: The Cautionary Case of Albert Einstein
by Todd C. Riniolo and Lee Nisbet
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Article
All skeptics, even Einstein, are, at best, selectively skeptical.
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A Pathologist Among the Spirits
by Joe Nickell
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Book Review
Beyond Knowing: Mysteries and Messages of Death and Life from a Forensic Pathologist. by Janis Amatuzio, MD
PEAR Lab Closes, Ending Decades of Psychic Research
by Stanley Jeffers
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Comment and Opinion
The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research group is shutting down after 28 years of searching for proof of the paranormal.
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Philip Kitcher Awarded Inaugural $10,000 Prometheus Prize
by The Editors
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
News & Comment
Prometheus Books and the American Philosophical Association have selected Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy...
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‘Psychic’ Evans Acquitted on Appeal in Swindling Case
by David Park Musella
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
News & Comment
In 2005, we published an article by Amy Davis, a television reporter then with WOAI-TV in San Antonio, Texas, about her...
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Randi’s Amazing Meeting Returns
by Ben Radford
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
News & Comment
James "The Amazing" Randi's fifth annual conference, dubbed "The Amazing Meeting", was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, January...
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Secrets and Lies
by Mary Carmichael and Benjamin Radford
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Special Report
Last year, Rhonda Byrne discovered the secret of the universe. It is based on a principle of quantum mechanics and lies in a...
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Snake-Oil Traders
by Edzard Ernst
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Comment and Opinion
"The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business."
Sylvia Browne’s Biggest Blunder
by Ben Radford
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
News & Comment
The tragic consequences of listening to psychic advice were brought into sharp focus in January 2007.
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Sylvia Browne’s Year to Forget
by Bryan Farha
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
News & Comment
During the final week of each year Sylvia Browne boldly appears on the Montel Williams show to maker her...
Theatre of Science
by Richard Wiseman
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Article
Two academics show--somewhat to their own surprise--that there is an audience for a live stage science show.
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The Nonsense and Non-science of Sasquatch
by Benjamin Radford, MIchael R. Dennett, Matt Crowley, and David J. Daegling
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Book Review
Review of Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science by Jeff Meldrum.
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Third Strike for Columbia University Prayer Study: Author Plagiarism
by Bruce Flamm
Volume 31.3, May / June 2007
Comment and Opinion
Mr. Wirth, the man who allegedly designed and conducted the prayer study, was sentenced to five years in federal prison.
