Skeptical Inquirer — Volume 32.2
March / April 2008
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Alien Ghosts at Roswell
by Robert Sheaffer
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
Psychic Vibrations
Can a pseudoscientific documentary be so insulting that even the cable channel planning to run it turns it down?
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Altercation with a (Criss) Angel
by Jim Underdown
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
News & Comment
When NBC's new show Phenomenon began taping a mile from the Center for Inquiry/Los Angeles, our home grown...
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Bad Journalism Misleads Public about Psychics
by Ben Radford
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
News & Comment
Ada Wason and Mary Ellen Walters vanished, seemingly into thin air. The pair left their Warren County, Ohio, retirement home...
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Bark at the Moon
by Ben Radford
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
Skeptical Inquiree
"My local newspaper runs a weekly column about planting flower and vegetable gardens by the phases of the moon and the signs..."
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Born Again, Inc.: Senate Investigating Six Prophets for Profit
by Donna Danford
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
News & Comment
Tithe-happy evangelists and their luxurious lifestyles are once again facing scrutiny.
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CFI Attacks Dismissal of Texas Educator for Her Pro-Evolution Actions
by The Editors
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
News & Comment
Scholars at CFI were dismayed that the Texas Education Agency forced an educator our of her job because she spoke in favor of...
China Gone Modern
by Kendrick Frazier
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
Article
In the nearly 20 years since our last visit to China, the country has undergone a stunning economic and physical transformation.
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The Comic Pratfalls of Richard Roberts
by Martin Gardner
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
News & Comment
In November 2007, Oral Roberts's singing son Richard, age fifty-nine, resigned as president of Tulsa's Oral Roberts University.
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Declaration Defends Europe’s Genetically Modified Maize
by Michel Naud
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
News & Comment
In Europe, only one genetically modified plant variety is cultivated: the insect-resistant Bt GM maize.
Dennett: Teach Children All the Facts about their Religion
by Kendrick Frazier
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
Featurette
Daniel Dennett used his talk on the final morning of the China conference to call for an end to the indoctrination of children.
Entombed Alive!
by Joe Nickell
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
Investigative Files
It is a horrifying concept: being buried—or walled-up—alive. Fears of such possibilities were once rife.
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The Force of Change in China
by Kendrick Frazier
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
From the Editor
Our founder Paul Kurtz and I present two reports on China in this issue. They arise out of a stimulating world congress...
Gary Schwartz’s Energy Healing Experiments: The Emperor’s New Clothes?
by Harriet Hall
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
Article
Schwartz says his experiments reveal our natural power to heal based on our ability to sense and manipulate human energy fields.
Gell-Mann: Reality is Out There . . . and It’s Beautiful
by Kendrick Frazier
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
Featurette
In case you were wondering, there really is a reality out there independent of human observers.
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‘I Am Houdini! And You Are a Fraud!’
by Massimo Polidoro
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
Notes on a Strange World
Though it seems that everything has already been said and written about magician Harry Houdini, every now and then something...
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Natalee Holloway Disappearance Unsolved; Case Closed
by Ben Radford
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
News & Comment
Despite the efforts of searchers and psychics, police on Aruba closed the case on missing teenager Natalee Holloway.
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New Books
by The Editors
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
Abstracts of recently published books of interest to skeptics.
The New China and the Old
by Paul Kurtz
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
Article
20 years of CSI and CFI interactions with China help reinforce Chinese scholars' efforts in boosting scientific understanding
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New National Academy Book Defends Evolution
by The Editors
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
News & Comment
In January, the National Academy of Sciences issued a new, spirited defense of evolution in the form of an updated...
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Quoteworthy
by The Editors
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
News & Comment
Recent quotes and observations
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Science Leaders, CFI Call for Science Debate among Presidential Candidates
by The Editors
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
News & Comment
In December 2007, a coalition of scientists and science communicators began calling for a U.S. presidential debate devoted to...
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Ten Million Marriages: An Astrological Detective Story
by David Voas
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
Article
The largest test of astrology ever undertaken shows that love has nothing to do with the stars— even though patterns...
The Strange Case of Frank Jennings Tipler
by Martin Gardner
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
Book Review
Review of The Physics of Christianity by Frank Tipler
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Toward a Consilience of Sciences and Humanities?
by Massimo Pigliucci
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
Thinking About Science
In 1998, biologist Edward O. Wilson published a controversial book titled Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge...
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Tunguska Asteroid Size Downgraded by New Computer Simulations
by The Editors
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
News & Comment
The explosion that caused such incredible forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by...
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Two Meanings of ‘Faith’ Confuse Even Scientists
by Robert L. Park
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
News & Comment
On the topic of laser physics, I would happily defer to Townes, but this is a matter of the English Language.
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Update News Notes
by The Editors
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
News & Comment
Here are updates from the news related to the topics of some recent articles in the Skeptical Inquirer.
Let’s Keep Our Cool about Global Warming
by Bjørn Lomborg
Volume 32.2, March / April 2008
Article
Given the recent debate in our pages over global warming and climate change, we invited Bjørn Lomborg for his perspective
