CSICOP Holds Workshop in San Diego

CSICOP Holds Workshop in San Diego

by The Editors
Skeptical Briefs Volume 6.2, June 1996

A workshop on "Feats of the Wonder Workers" was held on March 23 and 24, 1996, at the Regency Plaza Hotel in San Diego.

Scientific Remote Viewing

by Robert Baker
Skeptical Briefs Volume 6.2, June 1996

A Skeptic's Notebook

Historians of the next century will no doubt regard January 1996 as the period of the greatest breakthrough in all of history.

Israel: Where the Paranormal Is Normal

by Eric Lee
Skeptical Briefs Volume 6.2, June 1996

I should begin by saying that this has always been a land in which the paranormal is normal.

Levengood’s Crop-Circle Plant Research

by Joe Nickell
Skeptical Briefs Volume 6.2, June 1996

Investigative Files

The question of bias is important since Levengood's attitudes and assumptions reveal him as a partisan crop-circle "believer."

Senior Researcher Comments on the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon in Japan

by Markus Pössel & Ron Amundson
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 20.3, May / June 1996

Follow-up

The myth of the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon was devised by Lyall Watson in 1979 and has been written about in Skeptical Inquirer

A Study of Fantasy Proneness in the Thirteen Cases of Alleged Encounters in John Mack’s Abduction

by Joe Nickell
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 20.3, May / June 1996

Investigative Files

Since Robert A. Baker's article appeared in the Skeptical Inquirer, a controversy has raged over his suggestion...

What’s That I Smell? The Claims of Aromatherapy

by Lynn McCutcheon
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 20.3, May / June 1996

Feature

A small dose of aromatic oil may make for a pleasant experience, but the claims of aromatherapy go way beyond that.

Workshop Report: To Err Is Human

by Nancy Shelton
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 20.3, May / June 1996

Special Report

More than one hundred skeptics attended CSICOP's superb Human Error Workshop at the University of Oregon.

The Klass Files Volume 39

by Philip J. Klass
The Skeptics UFO Newsletter
May 1, 1996

Articles from Volume 39

Nessie Hoax Redux

by Joe Nickell
Skeptical Briefs Volume 6.1, March 1996

Investigative Files

In 1934, a photo of "Nessie," the fabled Loch Ness Monster, was allegedly snapped by a London gynecologist named Robert Wilson.