Skeptical Inquirer — Volume 32.1
January / February 2008
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Born to Believe
by David Ludden
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Book Review
Review of Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief. By Lewis Wolpert.
Chiropractic: A Profession Seeking Identity
by Samuel Homola
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Article
The chiropractic profession is resisting changes that will establish it as a back-pain specialty...
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Council of Europe Approves Resolution against Creationism
by Martin Mahner
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
News & Comment
On October 4, 2007, the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly approved a resolution recommending...
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Creationism, Catastrophism, and Velikovsky
by William D. Stansfield
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Article
Catastrophism is a tenet of biblical fundamentalism (creationism). Immanual Velikovsky was a neocatastrophist...
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Dangerous Ideas on the Loose
by Kenneth W. Krause
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Book Review
Review of What is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable. Edited by John Brockman.
A Darwinian View of a Hostile Atheist
by Irwin Tessman
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Article
The frontal assault on religion by Richard Dawkins and others may mark a new chapter in the warfare of science with theology.
The Difference between Hahnemann and Darwin
by U. Kutschera
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Article
In contrast to evolutionary biology, homeopathy is a closed, dogmatic system of fixed rules.
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Difficulty in Debunking Myths Rooted in the Way the Mind Works
by Shankar Vedantam
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
News & Comment
This phenomenon may help explain why large numbers of Americans incorrectly think that Saddam Hussein was directly involved...
Exciting UFOs Become Bland IFOs
by Joe Nickell
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Investigative Files
Most "flying saucers" are eventually identified as planes, balloons, meteors, or other objects, or even as illusions or hoaxes.
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Haunting Evidence Follow-Up: TV Psychic Detectives Fail Again
by Ben Radford
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
News & Comment
How many of the ... cases featured in the first season of Haunting Evidence did the team solve? Not a single one.
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How to ‘Haunt’ A House
by Ben Radford
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Article
When a terrified family sought information about the ghosts they believed haunted their home, they found only...
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Is Intelligent Design Creationism?
by Massimo Pigliucci
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Thinking About Science
The fossils produced by the paleontologist make a compelling case because they are of the appropriate morphology...
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The Legend of the Pied Piper
by Massimo Polidoro
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Notes on a Strange World
It is 1284, and the little German town of Hamelin is infested by a plague of rats. In desperation, the mayor advertises for...
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New Books
by The Editors
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Abstracts of recent books of interest to skeptics.
One Large Defeat for Science in Canada
by Gary Bauslaugh
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Follow-up
Follow up to the September/October 2007 News and Comment item by Bruce Pendergast
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A Painful Legal Case is Resolved in Favor of Open Inquiry
by Kendrick Frazier
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
From the Editor
I hope everyone will read Carol Tavris's report in this issue on the resolution of a legal case that threatened...
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The Science of Chemistry
by Ben Radford
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Skeptical Inquiree
I have an inquiry about Internet dating and relationship Web sites. At least one claims in its advertising to use science to...
A Skeptical Consumer’s Look at Chiropractic Claims: Flimflam in Florida?
by Bruce Thyer and Gary Whittenberger
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Article
There is no scientifically credible evidence that chiropractic treatment can alleviate high blood pressure or arthritis...
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Stalking the Nutty Notions
by Robert L. Wolke
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Article
There are more crackpot "spritual," "medical," "theraputic," and "healing" schemes out there than you can shake a talisman at.
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Unrivaled Acumen, Communitarian Passion
by Kenneth W. Krause
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Book Review
Review of The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould. Edited by Steven Rose.
Whatever Happened to ‘Jane Doe’?
by Carol Tavris
Volume 32.1, January / February 2008
Special Early Release
An important victory for open, skeptical inquiry and free speech.
