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Back Issue: volume 1, number 2

Articles

Hume’s Maxim
The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the “Real World”
by Judith Grabiner

News

Campus Outreach Program; Discounts and Rates; Host Needed; Physicist in the White House?; Steve Allen to Speak; Entropy; ‘Holy Grail Discovered’; Black Holes; T.M.; Winker Sightings; Acupuncturists and Chiropractors Fined; Secular Alcohol Treatment; Greenhouse Doubts; Laws of Robotics; Randi-Geller Update; UFO Info

Special Section:
Cryonics

The Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Dead
by Steven B. Harris
Cryonics: Reaching
for Tomorrow
by Michael Darwin & Brian Wowk
Basic Questions & Answers
About Cryonics
From Alcor Life
Extension Foundation
Can Science Cheat Death?
Cryonics, Altered States & the Quest for Transcendence by Michael Shermer

Forum

Forum Topic; Skeptics Forum Meeting at Caltech; Letters

Reviews

Galileo, Gould, Transcendental Meditation, JFK Assassination, Conspiracy Theories Freud; Catastrophic Catastrophes; Science in Western Culture by Paul V. McDowell
& Michael Shermer