Introducing Italy’s Version of Harry Houdini

Introducing Italy’s Version of Harry Houdini

by Matt Nisbet
Generation sXeptic
August 31, 2000

Most ten-year-olds growing up in Italy dream of feats of national heroism on the soccer field...

The Best Case for ESP?

The Best Case for ESP?

by Matt Nisbet
Generation sXeptic
July 28, 2000

Imagine that you are recruited for a ganzfeld experiment, touted as the best known method for testing for "psi" ability.

The New Paranatural Paradigm: Special APS Session Examines Pseudoscience

The New Paranatural Paradigm: Special APS Session Examines Pseudoscience

by Donald Mainfort
Skeptical Inquirer · Feature · Volume 24.4

The biggest physics meeting of the year featured a broad range of assessments from CSICOP panelists of pseudoscience...

Rethinking the Dancing Mania

Rethinking the Dancing Mania

by Robert E. Bartholomew
Skeptical Inquirer · Feature · Volume 24.4

Medieval dance frenzies have long been regarded as a classic example of stress-induced mental disorder...

Can We Really Tap Our Problems Away? A Critical Analysis of Thought Field Therapy

by Brandon A. Gaudiano and James D. Herbert
Skeptical Inquirer · Op-Ed · Volume 24.4

Thought Field Therapy llacks even basic empirical support and exhibits many of the trappings of a pseudoscience.

The Case of the Missing Poltergeist

The Case of the Missing Poltergeist

by Robert Baker
Skeptical Briefs · Volume 10.2

Like many citizens, Fred Fudge reads the news during breakfast and, on rare occasions, even converses with Mrs. Fudge...