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Skeptic Magazine, Volume 7 Number 4
Table of Contents

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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