Skeptical Inquirer

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Articles in Jan-Feb 2004 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• European Skeptics Congress: with alt-med's rising popularity, health issues high on agenda - News And Comment
  by Wendy M. Grossman
• Anti-vaccination fever: the shot hurt around the world: sensationalist media, religious fanatics, and alternative medical practitioners fanned the fires created by questionable research to spawn worldwide epidemics of a disease that had almost been forgot
  by William John Hoyt, Jr.
• The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 - Book Review - Brief Review
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Gibberish prophecies - Letters To The Editor - Letter to the Editor
• Astrologers see stars: predictable outrage in astrology land - News And Comment
  by Geoffrey Dean
• Skepticism of caricatures: B.F. Skinner turns 100
  by Scott T. Gaynor
• Defending Science—Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism - Book Review - Brief Review
  by Kendrick Frazier
• This UFO was real - Letters To The Editor - Letter to the Editor
  by David W. Briggs
• Insoles and heel pain: magnets not a benefit, JAMA study shows - News And Comment - Brief Article
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Fallacies and frustrations: why skeptics dread conversations with true believers
  by Phil Mole
• Doubt: A History - Book Review - Brief Review
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Tortured expression in poll - Letters To The Editor - Letter to the Editor
  by John Keane
• Studies clear childhood vaccine of links to SIDS, autism - News And Comment
  by Benjamin Radford
• Judging authority; we are often required to accept the word of another person, but how can we best judge whether or not that person is a legitimate authority?
  by Jere H. Lipps
• Mortal Evidence: The Forensics Behind Nine Shocking Cases - Book Review - Brief Review
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Myths about psychology - Letters To The Editor - Letter to the Editor
  by Sandy Hobbs
• IAU rejects naming asteroid for homeopathy founder - News And Comment - Brief Article
• A geologist's adventures with Bimini beachrock and Atlantis true believers
  by Eugene A. Shinn
• Psi Wars: Getting to Grips with the Paranormal - Book Review - Brief Review
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Looking at the Rorschach - Letters To The Editor - Letter to the Editor
  by Howard Garb
• New resource guide for debunking astronomical pseudoscience - News And Comment
• The real method of scientific discovery: scientists don't sit around in their labs trying to establish generalizations. Instead they engage in mystery-solving essentially like that of detective work, and it often involves a creative, imaginative leap
  by Burton S. Guttman
• Media Mythmakers: How Journalists, Activists, and Advertisers Mislead Us - Book Review - Brief Review
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Philosophy and limitations of knowledge - Letters To The Editor - Letter to the Editor
  by Rui Vieira
• Newsweek revisits religion and health, medical prayer - News And Comment
  by Kevin Christopher
• Oxygen is good—even when it's not there; alternative medicine's claims for the efficacy of supplemental oxygen are less than convincing—especially when the supplement contains no oxygen
  by Harriet A. Hall
• The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of UFO Religions - Book Review - Brief Review
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Risk statement bewilders - Letters To The Editor - Letter to the Editor
  by Barrie Tite
• UFOs over Buffalo! - Investigative Files
  by Joe Nickell
• Contemporary challenges to William James's white crow: William James's belief that he had found his white crow, thereby proving the legitimacy of spiritualism as a suitable subject for a science of psychology, evoked strong reaction from psychologists
  by Herman H. Spitz
• The politics of alternative medicine: reaction - and bad science - Letters To The Editor - Letter to the Editor
• Menstruation mistakes - Letters To The Editor - Letter to the Editor
  by Victoria Simmons
• Predictions and explanations - Thinking About Science
  by Massimo Pigliucci
• Digital Skepticism from Down Under - Audiovisual Review
  by Amanda Chesworth
• Alt-med in Australia - Letters To The Editor - Letter to the Editor
  by Ken Walker
• Sarfatti replies - Letters To The Editor - Letter to the Editor
  by Jack Sarfatti
• Science always trumps pseudoscience—and a still broader mission for SI - Editor's Note
  by Kendrick Frazier
• What a bloody miracle! - Notes On A Strange World
  by Massimo Polidoro
• The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 - Book Review - Brief Review
  by Kendrick Frazier
• What's cause, effect? - Letters To The Editor - Letter to the Editor
  by Frank D. Kirschner