Skeptical Inquirer

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Articles in Jan-Feb 2005 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• Kepler's Witch: an Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy trial of His Mother
• 2004 Ad
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Piltdown and how science really works
  by Massimo Pigliucci
• Some reasons for caution about the Bigfoot film expose: for skeptics, the revelation of a hoax can provide valuable insights but may also contain pitfalls
  by Michael Dennett
• True to Life: Why Truth Matters
• Alien-abduction guru Mack killed in accident
  by Joe Nickell
• Facts and fiction in the Kennedy assassination
  by Massimo Polidoro
• Science and ethics
  by Leon Kass
• Exposing Columbia's prayer/fertility study
  by Maxwell E. Siegel
• Betty Hill, first 'alien abductee,' dies
  by Joe Nickell
• Critical thinking about energy: the case for decentralized generation of electricity: highly centralized generation of electrical power is a paradigm that has outlived its usefulness. Decentralized generation could save $5 trillion in capital investment,
  by Thomas R. Casten
• Popper and evolution
  by Frederick Cichocki
• Critical inquiry, and thinking about Galileo
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Anthropic principle examined
  by Paul Dale Roberts
• Critics ravage 'hoax' new age film
  by Benjamin Radford
• A giant standing on the shoulders of giants
  by Greg Martinez
• 'Teach the controversy'
  by Glenn Branch
• Paranormal expo cancelled under cloud
  by James Underdown
• Exploring controversies in the art and science of polygraph testing
  by John Ruscio
• Bits of bogus science preceding Piltdown
  by John Whittaker
• It would have been clearer
  by John G. Fletcher
• Raelian update: sex, pseudoscience, and sacrilege
  by Kevin Christopher
• A Nobel laureate confronts pseudoscience: a distinguished Russian physicist battles the pseudoscience and charlatanism that he feels is duping his country's population. Two articles follow
  by Vitaly L. Ginzburg
• The Mary Celeste: a very plausible explanation
  by Terence M. Hines
• Metabolife founder Michael Ellis charged with lying to FDA
  by David Park Musella
• Natural medicine: will that be a pill or a needle?
  by William H. Baarschers
• Science best sellers: top ten best sellers
• Psychics explain missing September 11
  by Benjamin Radford
• Bigfoot Exposed: an Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend
• The New How Things Work: Everyday Technology Explained
• Mystery painting: 'The Shadow of the Cross'
  by Joe Nickell
• It's a bird, it's a plane, it's … an angel?
  by Dave Brooks
• More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues
• Hurricane Osama?
  by Robert Sheaffer
• Stupid things
  by Ralph Estling