Skeptical Inquirer — Volume 35.6
November/December 2011
Did Shakespeare Write ‘Shakespeare’? Much Ado About Nothing
by Joe Nickell
Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
Article
Anti-Stratfordians start with the answer they want and work backward to the evidence—the opposite of good science and scholarship. They reverse the standards of objective inquiry, replacing them with pseudoscience and pseudohistory.
Civilizations Lost and Found: Fabricating History - Part Two: False Messages in Stone
by Bradley T. Lepper, Kenneth L. Feder, Terry A. Barnhart, and Deborah A. Bolnick
Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
Article
The documentary Lost Civilizations of North America presents a distorted picture of American prehistory. The archaeological evidence presented to support notions of ancient pre-Columbian contact consists of long-discredited frauds.
‘Exeter Incident’ Solved! A Classic UFO Case, Forty-Five Years ‘Cold’
by James McGaha and Joe Nickell
Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
Special Report
One of the great unsolved UFO cases—which provoked endless controversy between True Believers and Doubting Thomases—has at long last succumbed to investigation. The 1965 Exeter mystery is now explained.
‘Getting People to Think More Deeply’
by Sharon Hill
Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
Interview
An Interview with Miracle Detectives Scientist Indre Viskontas
Disputing ‘Seven Deadly Medical Hypotheses’
by David H. Gorski, Mark Crislip, Avrum Z. Bluming, Carol Tavris, Harriet Hall, and Reynold Spector
Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
Follow-up
This collection of letters was previously posted as an Online Extra. Read it in CSI's Special Articles section »
Psychic Connections: Investigating in Hungary
by Joe Nickell
Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
Investigative Files
While in Hungary from September 16–22, 2010—initially to participate in the fourteenth European Skeptics Congress (held in Budapest September 17–19)—I found time for some interesting investigations.
Have You Had Your Antioxidants Today?
by Steven Novella
Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
The Science of Medicine
If you believe the hype, then you want them in your food; you want to take them as pills; and you want the maximum most powerful antioxidants that can be found in nature. Unfortunately, the evidence does not support the claim that there are any health benefits to taking antioxidants.
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Paranormal Misinterpretations of Vision Phenomena
by Michael Mauser
Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
Article
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9/11: Perspectives from a Decade Later
by Clark R. Chapman and Alan W. Harris
Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
Commentary
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Slaying the Beast of the Gévaudan
by Blake Smith
Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
Book Review
A review of Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast by Jay M. Smith
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From Shakespeare to American Archaeology
by Kendrick Frazier
Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
From the Editor
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The Lost Girl: Investigating a Case of “Psychic Detection”
by Massimo Polidoro
Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
Notes on a Strange World
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The Hopeless War against Intelligent Design Creationism
by Massimo Pigliucci
Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
Thinking About Science
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UFO Mothership and Fleet over London
by Robert Sheaffer
Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
Psychic Vibrations
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The Effect of Teachers Unions on Student Performance
by Kenneth W. Krause
Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
Science Watch
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Kinoki Drains Wallet, Not Toxins
by Ben Radford
Volume 35.6, November/December 2011
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