Skeptical Inquirer

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Articles in Jan-Feb 2003 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• Sandia tests MOLE detector, finds only chance performance - News and Comment - Sandia National Laboratories
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Unfazed: Mark Twain debunks the mesmerizer
  by George Englebretsen
• Readers forum: can we respond More Rationally to terrorism?
• Pop singer's death reveals visits to new age 'miracle worker' - News and Comment - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes - Brief Article
  by Benjamin Radford
• Baraka buys bunk: furore over poet's conspiracy paranoia. . - News and Comment - Amiri Baraka LeRoi Jones
  by Kevin Christopher
• A Maddeningly Gullible Oxford Companion - Book Review
  by Robert H. Cormack
• Sheldrake's crystal claims - Letters to the Editor - Letter to the Editor
• Brain site located that induces illusory out-of-body experiences - News and Comment - Brief Article
  by Kendrick Frazier
• A Sociologist's Journey into the American Heart of Darkness - Book Review
  by Kevin Christopher
• Dinosaurs and DNA - Letters to the Editor - Letter to the Editor
• Amityville: The Horror of it all - Investigative Files
  by Joe Nickell
• A Personal Mythology - Book Review
  by Joseph P. Szimhart
• Intelligent design debate - Letters to the Editor - Letter to the Editor
• Causes and correlations - Thinking about Science
  by Massimo Pigliucci
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Steven Pinker - New Book - Book Review
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Questioning psychic research - Letters to the Editor - Letter to the Editor
• Don't try this at home - Notes on a Strange World
  by Massimo Polidoro
• Top Ten Best Sellers in New York - Science Best Sellers
• Crop circles - Letters to the Editor - Letter to the Editor
• How not to test mediums : critiquing The Afterlife Experiments - 1
  by Ray Hyamn
• The ABC-ville Horror - Review - Primetime Thursday
  by Kevin Christopher
• America's public schools - Letters to the Editor - Letter to the Editor
• Beliefs on trial, and the legality of reasonableness: ever thought about becoming a lawyer? Here's your chance to don a black robe and horsehair wig, and apply some legal principles to skeptical inquiry
  by Richard M. Fisher
• Shattering the crystal sphere - Forum
  by Ralph Estling
• Junk Science Judo - Letters to the Editor - Letter to the Editor
• Death of The Afterlife Experiments? - Editor's Note - Editorial
• Placebos, nocebos, and chiropractic adjustments
  by Samuel Homola
• The Mars Effect cannot be pinned on cheating parents - Follow-up
  by Suitbert Ertel
• Those Ica Stones - Letters to the Editor - Letter to the Editor
• National Academy of Sciences report says polygraph testing too flawed for security screening - News and Comment
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Pliny the Elder: rampant credulist, rational skeptic, or both?
  by Ken Parejko
• Response to Ertel - Follow-up
  by Geoffrey Dean
• My close-up encounter with an MFO - Misidentified Flying Object - Letters to the Editor - Letter to the Editor