Skeptical Inquirer — Volume 32.5
September / October 2008
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The Amazing Randi Strikes Again
by Ben Radford
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
News & Comment
The Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas was the site of the sixth Amaz!ng Meeting, James Randi's more-or-less annual...
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Alien Peeping Tom—Film at Eleven
by Robert Sheaffer
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Psychic Vibrations
The world was startled on May 28 when a Denver man claimed he was going to show a video of a "living, breathing alien."
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CSI’s Robert P. Balles Award Goes to New York Times Science Writer Natalie Angier
by Nathan Bupp
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
News & Comment
CSI presents its third Balles award to Angier for The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
Ben Stein’s Trojan Horse: Mobilizing the State House and Local News Agenda
by Matt Nisbet
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Special Report
In April, as the documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed premiered in more than a 1,000 theaters across the country...
The Bipolar Bamboozle
by Stephen Ray Flora and Sarah Elizabeth Bobby
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Article
Millions of people are being told they have a severe psychiatric disorder and are being prescribed antipsychotic medication.
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The Brain on Justice
by Massimo Pigliucci
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Thinking About Science
Justice, fairness and the efficient distribution of resources do not seem at first the sort of topics that should interest...
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Corporate Self Interest and Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Depression
by Peter Barglow
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Article
An American corporation has pressured the FDA to pursue its expensive and unproven Vagus Nerve Stimulation device for depression
The Eighth Gathering for (Martin) Gardner
by Ray Hyman
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Special Report
Who attends these gatherings? What takes place? How do they serve as a tribute to this remarkable man?
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Exposing Popular ‘Let’s Pretend’ Fantasies
by William Harwood
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Book Review
Review of Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms by Robert M. Price
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Finally, Sylvia Browne’s Final Tour
by Karen Stollznow
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
News & Comment
Visitors to Salt Lake City usually make the pilgrimage to the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...
From Weeping Icons to Crop Circles: Investigating with Gusto
by Terry Smiljanich
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Book Review
A review of the book by CSI fellow Joe Nickell
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Hoax Led to Polygamist Sect Raid
by Ben Radford
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
News & Comment
False reports can have serious consequences. Time and resources spent on hoaxers and liars are diverted from real crime victims.
Hunting for Spooklights
by Massimo Polidoro
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Notes on a Strange World
The hot, still night was illuminated by a full moon. The two shadowy figures moving along the empty road wondered if this...
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Letters to the Editor
by The Editors
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Letters to the Editor
Responses to Volume 32, Issue 3
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Lighthouse Specters
by Joe Nickell
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Investigative Files
Remote sentinels on rocky shores, lighthouses have been called "America's castles." Certainly, they are places of scenic...
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No Safe Level? Science and Seconhand Smoke
by David Appell
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
News & Comment
Are the dangers of secondhand smoke being exaggerated by anti-smoking groups?
Padre Pio: Wonderworker or Charlatan?
by Joe Nickell
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Special Report
Of the twentieth century's two most famous stigmatics, both were suspected of fraud, but Pio went on to be canonized in 2002.
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Psychic’s False Sex Abuse Claim Threatens Family
by Ben Radford
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
News & Comment
Psychics are wrong about things all the time; that's no news to our regular readers...
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Redoing the Math on Nuclear Energy
by Kenneth W. Krause
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Book Review
Nuclear Energy Now: Why the Time has Come for the World's Most Misunderstood Energy Source by Herbst and Hopley
A Special Afterword
by Martin Gardner
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Special Report
A special afterword to Hyman's report
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The Sweet Spirit Sounds of Rosemary Brown
by Ben Radford
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Skeptical Inquiree
Whatever happened to Rosemary Brown, who claimed to take down dictation from Liszt, Schubert, and other dead composers?
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A Trio of Questionable Medical Treatments
by Kendrick Frazier
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
From the Editor
The three articles under the theme "Questionable Medical Treatments" in this issue delve into problems with modern medicine...
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The Truth About Brain Science
by Robert Epstein
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
The Skeptical Psychologist
Our brains are very small when we're babies, grow throughout childhood, reach their maximum size at about age fourteen...
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We’re Wrong More Than We Think
by Harriet Hall
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Book Review
Review of On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not by Robert Burton, MD
‘We Couldn’t Say It in Print If It Wasn’t True’: Akavar’s Version of Truth in Advertising
by Harriet Hall
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Article
An ad for a weight-loss product falsifies its own slogan by printing outright lies.
The Myth of Nibiru and the End of the World in 2012
by David Morrison
Volume 32.5, September / October 2008
Article
An astronomer tries to counter misinformation on the Internet about a supposed rogue planet and an impending catastrophe.
