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Articles

’Twas Brillig…: Million Dollar Madness
by James Randi
Dumbth News from This is True: by Randy Cassingham
Educashun: Adventures of the Untenured Prof
by Steven T. Asma
ETs May Be Out There … But He Says They’re Not Here: An Interview with Philip J. Klass, the World’s Leading UFO Skeptic
by Gary P. Posner
Anatomy of Nonsense: Caroline Myss and Holistic
Medicine Evaluated
by Phil Molé

Special Section:
Carl Sagan

Sagan & Skepticism: Two Recent Sagan Biographies
reviewed by David Morrison
The Measure of a Life: Carl Sagan and the
Science of Biography
by Michael Shermer

Reviews

The Faustian Bargain: The Golem at Large,
by Collins and Pinch
reviewed by Kenneth R. Foster
Double Vision: Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us about Human Behavior, by Nancy L. Segal
reviewed by Frank Miele
Nazi Medicine: The Nazi War on Cancer,
by Robert N. Proctor
reviewed by Harry K. Ziel, M.D.
ET Phone Me: Captured By Aliens: The Search For Life and Truth an a Very Large Universe, by Joel Achenbach
reviewed by Michael Shermer

Junior Skeptic

How TV Promotes Superstition
How to Fool Media People: by Pat Linse, James Randi,
and Michael Shermer
Behind the Scenes on Oprah: The Amazing Randi in You Be The Judge: Mind Reading With Barbara Walters
The Madman of Magic: Heartbeat of a Fakir; Headquarter; Weird Hanging Cane
by Bob Friedhoffer

News

: Breatharians Breath Their Last; Waco: The Rules of Reporting; Reincarnation 4.1; Howard Stern a Reincarnated Lesbian in Egyptian Harem; Dennis Lee’s Free Electricity; Real Life X-Files Research Shut Down; “Bible Code” Debunked by Journal that Introduced it
The 9th First Annual Ig Nobel Awards: by Sheila J. Gibson
Special Evolution-Creationism News Updates: Colorado: A Victory for Science!; Michigan: Professors Fight Back Against Creationists New Mexico: A Defeat for Creationism!; Kansas: First Evolution, Now Geology Goes

Special Section:
Mass Hysteria

When Satan Came to Texas: A Study in a Satanic Panic
Witch Craze
by Ronald M. Wade
Penis Panics: The Psychology of Penis-Shrinking Mass Hysterias
by Robert E. Bartholomew
Phantom Assailants & the Madness of Crowds: The Mad Gasser
of Botetourt County
by Robert E. Bartholomew
and Erich Goode
The Godman of India: Sex, Lies and Video Tape in
the Satya Sai Baba Story
by Babu Gogineni

Special Section:
ESP & PSI

Thought Field Therapy: Still Searching for the Quick Fix
by David X. Swenson
Eye Movement Magic: Eye Movement Desensitization
and Reprocessing a Decade Later
by Gerald M. Rosen,
Richard J. McNally,
and Scott O. Lilienfeld
Extrasensory Powers or Simple Probabilities?: Identifying Photos in
Opaque Envelopes
by Raymond Brown
and Joel M. Kauffman
Testing Psi & Psi Missing: Do Skeptics Negatively
Influence ESP Experiments?
by Todd C. Riniolo
and Louis A. Schmidt

Forum

: Perspectives; Atheists in Foxholes; Pyramid Power Lives!; Christian Science Corrections; Is the U.S. a Christian Nation?; John George Replies; Skeptical of Genetic Engineering; Pet Adoption Center not Dumbth; Cassingham Replies; JFK and Friendly Fire
Cloning Forum: In Defense of Seed; Cloning and Diversity: A Commentary on Evolution and Ethics by Frank Salter; Miele Replies to Salter
Group Selection Forum: The Group Selection Chimera by John Hartung; Society as Organism: A Group Selection Primer and Reply to Hartung by David Sloan Wilson and Elliott Sober; Can We Make a Deal, John Hartung? Nicholas S. Thompson Responds

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