Volume 33.6
November / December 2009
Messages to `Ask an Astrobiologist,' May 2009
Messages to `Ask an Astrobiologist,' May 2009
An Apologia with a Transparent Strategy
Bigelow’s Aerospace and Saucer Emporium
Big Scientific Controversy over Little Hobbit People of Flores
Borneo’s River Monster Photo: Living Legend or Hoax?
Careful Phrasing: A Matter of Life and Death
CFI World Congress: More Highlights
Chiropractic Neck Manipulation and Informed Consent
Crystal Balls in Chains
CSI’s Balles Prize Goes to Physicist/Author Leonard Mlodinow
CSI Solves New Jersey UFO Mystery
The Deadwood Ghost Photo
Eusapia Palladino, Queen of the Cabinet, Part 2
A Graphic Guide to Grabbing a Precious Pro-Religion Prize
Highlights of CFI’s Twelfth World Congress: Science, Public Policy, and the Planetary Community
John Maddox, Longtime Nature Editor and CSI Fellow, Dies
Letters to the Editor
Michael Dennet, Skeptic and Bigfoot Investigator, Dies
New Books
Nonreligious Portion of U.S. Population Growing, Survey Finds
Obama on Science, Discovery, and Open Inquiry
On Evolution, Abortion, and Astrology
On the Moon
Pathology or Paradigm Shift? Human Evolution, Ad Hominem Science and the Anomolous Hobbits of Flores
Randi, Krauss, Kurtz Honored with Major Awards
A Tribute to Jerry Andrus—Magician, Creator of Master Illusions
Whats Wrong with the I Ching? Ambiguity, Obscurity, and Synchronicity
Autism-Vaccine Link Researcher Andrew Wakefield Accused of Faking His Data
Cardiff’s Giant Hoax
CFI/Los Angeles Celebrates Darwin’s 200th Birthday with Readings, Plays, Lecture
Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea
Eusapie Palladino, the Queen of the Cabinet, Part 1
Ghosts, Doughnuts, and A Christmas Carol: Investigating New Mexico’s ‘Haunted’ KiMo Theater
The Great Global Cooling Myth
Hard and Soft Science: Physics vs. Psychology
It’s What We Do
Letters to the Editor
Life and Planet
A Modern Witch Craze in Papua New Guinea
More Studies Reject Vaccine-Autism Link
The Pseudoscience of Personalysis
Putting Your Money Where Your MInd Is
Remembering Henry Gordon, Magician, Skeptic, Debunker
Report Knocks Baylor Claim about American Religiosity
Repower America? Science Commmunication and the Obama Presidency
The Roots of Skepticism
Science and Pseudoscience in Adult Nutrition Research and Practice
Scientists Hail Gallo’s ‘Unsung’ Role in Nobel HIV/AIDS Discovery
Bearing False Witness for Profit
A Christian Physicist’s Dispatch from the Evolution Wars
Critique of ‘The Bipolar Bamboozle’
Curious Contrails: Death from the Sky?
Deep History or Shallow Cognition? Cognitive Biases and `Esoteric History'
Dutch, Belgian Creationist Groups Unite to Bring Anti-Evolution Message to Six Million
Happy Birthday, Mr. Darwin
How to Get Rich Quickly with ‘Alternative’ Medicine
The Information You’ve Been Provided Ain’t Necessarily So
It’s Scary, But Not the Way They Intend
Judge Jones and the Science/Religion Debate at Ohio State
Lessons about Burdens on American Cryptology
New Books
The Pearl Harbor ‘Winds Message’ Controversy: A New Critical Evaluation
The Potential Habitable Zone on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
Questioning Conventional Wisdom on Science-Related Issues
Response to the Critique of the ‘Bipolar Bamboozle’
Science and Antiscience in America: Why It Matters
Science, Reason, and the Obama Administration
Six Common Medical Myths that Gain Wide Attention
The Tree of Life
UFOs by the Numbers
What Do Skeptics Need to Explain?
What Open-Mindedness Requires
An Astronomer Looks at UFOs: A Lot Less than Meets the Eye
‘Buzzing Bee’ Missile Mythology Flies Again
Cyberonics Responds to Barglow’s ‘Corpoate Self-Interest and Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Depression’
Discovery of HIV Nets 2008 Nobel Prize for Two French Virologists
Experimental Philosophy, an Oxymoron?
FTC Warns Against Bogus Cancer Cures, Charges Five Companies
Kansas Gym Ghost Video Mystery Solved
Letters to the Editor
The Minsk UFO Case: Misperception and Exaggeration
Nazi Saucers and Antigravity
New Books
Response to Cyberonics Letter of Criticism
Roswell Update: Fading Star?
Same Planet, Different Worldview
Sid the Science Kid: Meet Bill Nye for the Preschool Set
Skeptics Create Creepy Café
The Stephenville Lights: What Actually Happened
The Trained Observer of Unusual Things in the Sky (UFOs?)
UFOlogy 2009: A Six-Decade Perspective
UFOs: an Assessment of Thirty Years of Official Studies in France
UFOs: Fact and Fiction—A Special Issue
XanGo Juice: Miracle or Myth?
Asteroids Named for Skeptics, Authors, Science Educators
Charles Fort’s Life and Legacy of Strangeness
The Curious Case of Street Lamp Interference
The Emperor’s Postmodern Clothes
Firebombings Target University Animal Researchers
Georgia Bigfoot Hoax Draws Global Attention
Ghosts and Ion Counters
‘Hex’ Signs: Searching for the Magic
Is ‘Knol’ for Knowledge or for Pseudoknowledge?
Jon Beckjord, Advocate of a Paranormal Bigfoot (1939-2008)
Keeping Ahead of the News
Letters to the Editor
Love at First Sight
Mickelson, McKellar Tout Science, Math, and Being Smart
A Mind for Murdergate
More Cool Careers for Dummies: Ghost Hunter
Mr. Belloc Objects
Nocturnal Lights and Sounds Baffle Maryland Town…for Awhile
Purdue Panel Finds Scientific Misconduct in Researcher’s Bubble Fusion Reports
Quantum Weirdness: An Analogy from the Time of Newton
Secrets of Spectacularly Skewered Skin
Secular Sunshine as the Best Disinfectant
The Skeptic Meets the Moral Panic
Statistically Significant Results vs. Oomph
Unproven or Disproven Treatments—Why Would Anyone Want to Use Them?
Where’s the Responsibility? UK Broadcasting Code Prevents Re-Airing Psychic’s Failure
Alien Peeping Tom—Film at Eleven
The Amazing Randi Strikes Again
CSI’s Robert P. Balles Award Goes to New York Times Science Writer Natalie Angier
Ben Stein’s Trojan Horse: Mobilizing the State House and Local News Agenda
The Brain on Justice
Corporate Self Interest and Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Depression
The Eighth Gathering for (Martin) Gardner
Exposing Popular ‘Let’s Pretend’ Fantasies
Finally, Sylvia Browne’s Final Tour
From Weeping Icons to Crop Circles: Investigating with Gusto
Hoax Led to Polygamist Sect Raid
Letters to the Editor
Lighthouse Specters
The Myth of Nibiru and the End of the World in 2012
No Safe Level? Science and Seconhand Smoke
Padre Pio: Wonderworker or Charlatan?
Psychic’s False Sex Abuse Claim Threatens Family
Redoing the Math on Nuclear Energy
The Sweet Spirit Sounds of Rosemary Brown
A Trio of Questionable Medical Treatments
The Truth About Brain Science
We’re Wrong More Than We Think
‘We Couldn’t Say It in Print If It Wasn’t True’: Akavar’s Version of Truth in Advertising
AGU Reverses Position on Climate Change
Alternative Science
Anomalous Cognition: A Meeting of Minds?
Anomalous Cognition? A Second Perspective
Arthur C. Clarke Remembered
Arthur C. Clarke Remembered
Arthur ‘N’ Me
The Beginner’s Guide to ‘Holistic’ Wellness
Broadening Our Scientific Horizons
But You Deceived Me! The Necessity of Deception in Investigation of the Paranormal
Clarke, Cognition, and the Presidential Campaign
Controversy Erupts Over Errors, Bias in Textbook Examined by CFI
Court Dismisses Cha Suit, Vindicates Flamm on Questioned Prayer/Fertility Study
Court Dismisses Cha Suit, Vindicates Flamm on Questioned Prayer/Fertility Study
The Fallacy of Misplaced Rationalism
Gardnerian Whimsy and Insight, New and Old
The Idene: An Early Appearance of the Meme’s Meme(s)?
In a Mirror, Darkly: Does Superstition Reflect Rationality?
Likely Voters Prefer Evolution over Creationism
New Books
Paul Kurtz calls Expelled Film ‘Anti-Science Propaganda’
Photoghosts: Images of the Spirit Realm?
A Physicist’s Spirited Defense of String Theory and Science
Physics for the People
Pseudoscientists and Their Worlds
Richard Dawkins Replies
A Skeleton’s Tale: The Origins of Modern Spiritualism
The Spate of Bogus Research Papers from Korean Scientists
Stamps of Approval for Four U.S. Scientists; Carl Sagan Next?
When Faith Kills: Christian Healing at the Expense of Rational Medicine
Anonymous vs. Scientology
Bones of Contention
Brain Neuroimaging Experiments find ‘Evidence against Existence of Psi’ ... or Do They?
Coffee—with Strings
Creationist Peer Review
Dangers of Animal Rights Extremists
Darwin Day 2008: CFI/Los Angeles Stages Rare Reading of Steve Allen’s Meeting of Minds
Electric Asteroid Zaps Earth
Entertainment, Religion, and the Decline of Society
Expelling All Reason
How to Study Reincarnation: Guidelines for Research
If It Exists, It Is Natural
Just Like Jedi Knights (If Only)
Merchandising God: The Pope Tart
NASA’s Mysterious ‘Man on Mars’ Photo
The Nature of the Supernatural
New Books
Scientists say Nullo Modo (No Way) to Pope
Sir Edmund Hillary, Explorer, Skeptic (1919-2008)
Skeptical Ethics— What Should We Investigate?
Some Splainin’ to Do
WARNING: Animal Extremists are Dangerous to Your Health
What Would Jesus Deface?
Zombies and Tetrodotoxin
Alien Ghosts at Roswell
Altercation with a (Criss) Angel
Bad Journalism Misleads Public about Psychics
Bark at the Moon
Born Again, Inc.: Senate Investigating Six Prophets for Profit
CFI Attacks Dismissal of Texas Educator for Her Pro-Evolution Actions
The Comic Pratfalls of Richard Roberts
Declaration Defends Europe’s Genetically Modified Maize
Dennett: Teach Children All the Facts about their Religion
The Force of Change in China
Gary Schwartz’s Energy Healing Experiments: The Emperor’s New Clothes?
Gell-Mann: Reality is Out There . . . and It’s Beautiful
‘I Am Houdini! And You Are a Fraud!’
Let’s Keep Our Cool about Global Warming
Natalee Holloway Disappearance Unsolved; Case Closed
New Books
New National Academy Book Defends Evolution
Quoteworthy
Science Leaders, CFI Call for Science Debate among Presidential Candidates
Ten Million Marriages: An Astrological Detective Story
The Strange Case of Frank Jennings Tipler
Toward a Consilience of Sciences and Humanities?
Tunguska Asteroid Size Downgraded by New Computer Simulations
Two Meanings of ‘Faith’ Confuse Even Scientists
Update News Notes
Born to Believe
Chiropractic: A Profession Seeking Identity
Council of Europe Approves Resolution against Creationism
Creationism, Catastrophism, and Velikovsky
Dangerous Ideas on the Loose
A Darwinian View of a Hostile Atheist
The Difference between Hahnemann and Darwin
Difficulty in Debunking Myths Rooted in the Way the Mind Works
Exciting UFOs Become Bland IFOs
Haunting Evidence Follow-Up: TV Psychic Detectives Fail Again
How to ‘Haunt’ A House
Is Intelligent Design Creationism?
The Legend of the Pied Piper
New Books
One Large Defeat for Science in Canada
A Painful Legal Case is Resolved in Favor of Open Inquiry
The Science of Chemistry
A Skeptical Consumer’s Look at Chiropractic Claims: Flimflam in Florida?
Stalking the Nutty Notions
Unrivaled Acumen, Communitarian Passion
The Best of All Health Care
Beyond Selfish Genes
Biodynamics in the Wine Bottle
Cosmos and Commentary
Endless Forms, Endless Controversy
The End of the Einstein-Astrology-Supporter Hoax
The Global Warming Debate: Science and Scientists in a Democracy
Governed By Emotion
The Greatest Occultist in Western History?
Interview with Roy Richard Grinker
Letters to the Editor
Masaru Emoto’s Wonderful World of Water
The Netherlands: Visions and Revisions
New Books
Out of Body and in the Lab: New Experiments Stimulate Seeing Self Elsewhere
Over the Hill on UFO Abductions
Paul MacCready (1923-2007)
Protecting Our Valuable Vaccine Programs
Ralph Estling, Eclectic Writer, 1930-2007
Studies Challenge Garlic, Beetroot Treatments against HIV
A Time to Die
Tributes to Barry Beyerstein, Champion of Critical Thinking, Skeptical Inquiry
Tribute to Barry Beyerstein
Vaccine Safety: Vaccines Are One of Public Health’s Great Accomplishments
Weekly World News Dies in Print, Lives On on the Web
What is Common about Common Sense? Perspectives from Anthropology
‘Why Won’t They Admit They’re Wrong?’ and Other Skeptics’ Mysteries
AIDS Denialism and Science
Andrew Franknoi Honored for Excellence in Astronomy Teaching
Betty Hill’s Last Hurrah
Carroll, Forrest, Kroto Elected CSI Fellows; Mooney, Nisbet Named Consultants
CFI Calls for Protecting Science and Research Findings from Political Interference
CSI’s Robert P. Balles Award Goes to Guardian ‘Bad Science’ Columnist Ben Goldacre
Evolution in the Limelight
Fix Your Ruptured Disk without Surgery?
Gallup Polls Show Split on Evolution (Dis)Belief by Politics, Religion
Global Warming: Critical Reaction, Support, and Author Response
How to Survive the Apocalypse
Is This Article on Conspiracies Part of a Conspiracy?
‘John of God’: Healings by Entities?
Letters to the Editor
The Loch Ness Critter
The Man Who Fooled Edison ... but Not Houdini
A Model UFO Debunking
Mythic Creatures, Bigger than Life
New Books
One Small Victory in Canada in Support of Evolution
Quack Attacker Returns after Legal Threat
Quoteworthy
Santa Fe ‘Courthouse Ghost’ Mystery Solved
Skeptical Community Laments Loss of Barry Beyerstein, Psychologist, CSI Council Member
Storm World
This is the Forum Column That Goes Like This
A Welcome Compilation of Classic Critiques
Addressing the Crucial Issues of Stem-Cell Research
An Effective, Positive Approach to Teaching Critical Thinking
A Call to Be Heeded
Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality: Ghosts, Vampires, and Zombies
‘Court TV’ Psychic Loses to Skeptic in Real Court
CSI Executive Council Members Meet in D.C., Speak on Restoring Scientific Integrity
The Earth and Stars in the Lunar Sky
Feng Shui and Monkey Madness at the L.A. Zoo
The Fingerprint Controversy
First They Came for Darwin, Then They Came for Copernicus and Galileo…
Getting It Right, or Brooklyn Is Not Expanding
Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming
Hope for the Future, and Early Reaction on Global Warming
Islam’s Troubled Relationships with Science
Is Dawkins Deluded? When Scientists Talk About Religion
Letters to the Editor
Little Audrey: The Life and Death of a ‘Victim Soul’
Might Fright Cause White?
New Findings Show Some Improvements in U.S. Science Literacy
Peru’s Ancient Mysteries
The PhD Degree and Biblical Fundamentalism
Philadelphia Psychics Shut Down, Then Allowed to Reopen
Psychic Events Workshop Fails APA Curriculum Requirement
The Quest for the ‘Real’ Robin Hood
Stem Cells: President Bush Vows to Protect One-Celled People
The Two-Months Argument for Parapsychological Research
Why I Burned a BIble
Why Religion and Medicine Don’t Mix
Deciphering Da Vinci’s Real Codes
The Myth of Consistent Skepticism: The Cautionary Case of Albert Einstein
PEAR Lab Closes, Ending Decades of Psychic Research
Bible Stories: A Sociologist Looks at Implausible Beliefs in Genesis
Fighting the Fundamentalists: Chamberlain or Churchill?
For the God Question, a Biological Perspective
Mysterious Entities of the Pacific Northwest, Part II
Center for Inquiry Launches Public Policy Office in Washington
The Devious Art of Improvising, Lesson One
Latin American Conference Launches Federation of Centers
Leakey Fights Church Campaign to Downgrade Kenya Museum’s Human Fossils
Siege of ‘Little Green Men’: The 1955 Kelly, Kentucky, Incident
Sound: Not as Simple as It Sounds. An Interview with Joshua Fineberg.
Name Dropping: Want to Be a Star?
Houdini’s Impossible Demonstration
In Defense of the Higher Values
Astrobiology Is the New Modern Framework Encompassing SETI . . . and So Much Else
The New Approach to SETI Is from the Bottom Up, Rather Than the Top Down
The PEAR Proposition: Fact or Fallacy?
SETI Requires a Skeptical Reappraisal
Teaching Pigs to Sing: An Experiment in Bringing Critical Thinking to the Masses
Why Scientists Shouldn’t Be Surprised by the Popularity of Intelligent Design
Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens
Critical Thinking: What Is It Good for? (In Fact, What Is It?)
What ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know: An Analysis of Kevin Trudeau’s Natural Cures
Does Irreducible Complexity Imply Intelligent Design?
Obfuscating Biological Evolution
Only a Theory? Framing the Evolution/Creation Issue
What Should We Think about Americans’ Beliefs Regarding Evolution?
On Problems with Near-light-speed Travel
Special Relativity after 100 Years
Sylvia Browne’s Latest: Ghost-Written?
Carl Sagan Takes Questions: More From His ‘Wonder and Skepticism’ CSICOP 1994 Keynote
The Case of the ‘Psychic Detectives’
Fakers and Innocents: The One Million Dollar Challenge and Those Who Try for It
Getting the Monkey off Darwin’s Back: Four Common Myths About Evolution
The Bizarre Columbia University ‘Miracle’ Saga Continues
Hyperbole in Media Reports on Asteroids and Impacts
Brave Thoughts Are Still Not the Truth
Critical Inquiry, and Thinking About Galileo
Critical Thinking About Energy: The Case for Decentralized Generation of Electricity
Demagogues against Scientific Expertise
Facts and Fiction in the Kennedy Assassination
A Giant Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
In the Land of Galileo, Fifth World Skeptics Congress Solves Mysteries, Champions Scientific Outlook
Bacteria, Ulcers, and Ostracism? H. Pylori and the Making of a Myth
Is Science Making Us More Ignorant?
The Secrets of Rennes-le-Château
Stupid Dino Tricks: A Visit to Kent Hovind’s Dinosaur Adventure Land
The Campeche, Mexico ‘Infrared UFO’ Video
Can the Sciences Help Us to Make Wise Ethical Judgments?
The Columbia University ‘Miracle’ Study: Flawed and Fraud
Capital Punishment and Homicide: Sociological Realities and Econometric Illusions
Fundamental Cosmological Understanding Eludes Us
Belgium Skeptics Commit Mass Suicide
Bridging the Chasm between Two Cultures
The Cold War’s Classified Skyhook Program: A Participant’s Revelations
The Case of the Holy Fraudster
Development of Beliefs in Paranormal and Supernatural Phenomena
From Internet Scams to Urban Legends, Planet (hoa)X to the Bible Code
Anti-Vaccination Fever: The Shot Hurt Around the World
European Skeptics Congress: With Alt-Med’s Rising Popularity, Health Issues High on Agenda
A Geologist’s Adventures with Bimini Beachrock and Atlantis True Believers
Science Always Trumps Pseudoscience - and a Still Broader Mission for SI
Ann Druyan Talks About Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe . . . and Carl Sagan
The Curse of Bodie: Legacy of Ghost-Town Ghosts?
Faking UFO Photos for the Twenty-First Century
The Ongoing Problem with the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
They See Dead People - Or Do They?: An Investigation of Television Mediums
The Disease of Pseudoscience and the Hope for a Cure
Legend of the Lake Champlain Monster
The Measure of a Monster: Investigating the Champ Photo
The Rorschach Inkblot Test, Fortune Tellers, and Cold Reading
How Not To Review Mediumship Research
More Hazards: Hypnosis, Airplanes, and Strongly Held Beliefs
Acupuncture, Magic, and Make-Believe
Bone (Box) of Contention: The James Ossuary
Amityville: The Horror of It All
How Not to Test Mediums: Critiquing the Afterlife Experiments
Politicizing the Virgin Mary: The Instance of the Madonna of Medjugorje
Circular Reasoning: The ‘Mystery’ of Crop Circles and Their ‘Orbs’ of Light
Fourth World Skeptics Conference in Burbank a Lively Foment of Ideas
Science and Pseudoscience in Russia: The First Skeptics’ Congress Convenes in Russia
Tracing Graham Hancock’s Shifting Cataclysm
Who Abused Jane Doe? The Hazards of the Single Case History Part 2
Benny Hinn: Healer or Hypnotist?
Gray Barker’s Book of Bunk Mothman, Saucers, and MIB
Who Abused Jane Doe? The Hazards of the Single Case History Part 1
Are Science and Religion Compatible?
Bigfoot at 50 Evaluating a Half-Century of Bigfoot Evidence
Commentary: Clear Thinking and the Forces of Unreason
Final Séance: The Strange Friendship Between Houdini and Conan Doyle
10th European Skeptics Congress: Rise and Development of Paranormal Beliefs in Eastern Europe
Snaring the Fowler: Mark Twain Debunks Phrenology
A Critique of Schwartz et al.’s After-Death Communication Studies
Design Yes, Intelligent No: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory and Neocreationism
The God of Falling Bodies: Galileo, Newton, Bentley, and Leibniz Chat on the Internet
Polygraphs and the National Labs: Dangerous Ruse Undermines National Security
A Quarter Century of Skeptical Inquiry: My Personal Involvement
25 Years of Science and Skepticism—Part 1 of 2
White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Is Biased
Darwin in Mind: ‘Intelligent Design’ Meets Artificial Intelligence
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher: Distant Healing and Elisabeth Targ
Research on the Feeling of Being Stared At
Exorcism! Driving Out the Nonsense
Medicine Wars: Will Alternative and Mainstream Medicine Ever Be Friends?
The New Paranatural Paradigm: Claims of Communicating with the Dead
100% True! This Is Not a Joke!
Haunted Inns: Tales of Spectral Guest
The Laws of Nature: A Skeptic’s Guide
The Psychic Staring Effect: An Artifact of Pseudo Randomization
Can We Really Tap Our Problems Away? A Critical Analysis of Thought Field Therapy
The New Paranatural Paradigm: Special APS Session Examines Pseudoscience
Aura Photography: A Candid Shot
Mass Delusions and Hysterias: Highlights from the Past Millennium
Can We Tell When Someone Is Staring at Us?
The Demon-Haunted Sentence: A Skeptical Analysis of Reverse Speech
The Ghost in my House: An Exercise in Self-Deception
New Analyses Raise Doubts About Replicability of ESP Findings
The Physics Behind Four Amazing Demonstrations
Flash! Fox News Reports that Aliens May Have Built the Pyramids of Egypt!
The Church Poltergeist: It’s the Village Mayor
FBI Enlisted Psychic in TWA 800 Investigation
God Is Dead, After Weather and Sports
Questioning Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld’s China Acupuncture Story
Scam Fortune Teller Arrested, Sentenced to Prison for Fraud
Scientific Skepticism, CSICOP, and the Local Groups
Should Skeptical Inquiry Be Applied to Religion?
Finding Awe, Reverence, and Wonder in Science
A Cogent Consideration of the Case for Karma (and Reincarnation)
Alternative Medicine, Impact Threats, Abrupt Climate Change, and Efficient Energy
Alternative Medicine and the Laws of Physics
Dark Skies Uses Pseudo-Sagan to Recast Astronomer’s Motives
Skeptical Simpsons Episode Spoofs Aliens, Pseudoscience
Art Bell, Heaven’s Gate, and Journalistic Integrity
Examining the Amazing Free-Energy Claims of Dennis Lee
Council for Media Integrity Blasts Networks for Distorted Treatments of Science
Not-So-Spontaneous Human Combustion
Scientific Consensus and Expert Testimony: Lessons from the Judas Priest Trial
Asteroids Named for CSICOP and Founder Paul Kurtz
Traditional Medicine and Pseudoscience in China: A Report of the Second CSICOP Delegation (Part 2)
Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia: Notes from a Mind-Control Conference
CSICOP announces the Council for Media Integrity
Traditional Medicine and Pseudoscience in China: A Report of the Second CSICOP Delegation (Part 1)
Science or Pseudoscience? Pentagon Grant Funds Alternative Health Study
A View from Russia: Popularization of Science as a Tool against Antiscience
Senior Researcher Comments on the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon in Japan
A Study of Fantasy Proneness in the Thirteen Cases of Alleged Encounters in John Mack’s Abduction
The Evidence for Psychic Functioning: Claims vs. Reality
A Surgeon’s View: Alien Autopsy’s Overwhelming Lack of Credibility
“Alien Autopsy” Show-and-Tell: Long on Tell, Short on Show
Bra Hazards, Carpet Circles, Lunar Aliens, and Adam’s Animals
China, Chi, and Chicanery: Examining Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chi Theory
The Cargo-Cult Science of Subliminal Persuasion
The Nazca Drawings Revisited: Creation of a Full-Sized Duplicate
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