Skeptical Inquirer

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Articles in Jan-Feb 2008 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
  by Kendrick Frazier
• In defense of memes
  by Matthew H. Fields
• How to 'haunt' a house: when a terrified family sought information about the ghosts they believed haunted their home, they found only mystery-mongering misinformation that confirmed their fears. A careful, sceptical investigation found fascinating answers
  by Benjamin Radford
• The Difference between Hahnemann and Darwin: in contrast to evolutionary biology, homeopathy is a closed, dogmatic system of fixed rules. Moreover, its basic tenet is an irrational tautology that lacks any factual basis
  by U. Kutschera
• Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Culture
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Let's learn to live with global warming
  by Marvin J. Schissel
• A Darwinian view of a hostile atheist: the frontal assault on religion by Richard Dawkins in his book The God Delusion, and by others, may mark a new chapter in the warfare of science with theology
  by Irwin Tessman
• Whatever happened to 'Jane Doe'? In ruling on a lawsuit prompted by a noted recovered memory case, the California Supreme Court has decided overwhelmingly in favor of social scientists Elizabeth Loftus and Melvin J. Guyer and this magazine. It is an impor
  by Carol Tavris
• [Cartoon]
  by Jeff Parker
• Wonderful World Of Space
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Psychology as science
  by Jeffrey B. Brookings
• Stalking the nutty notions: there are more crackpot "spiritual," "medical," "therapeutic," and "healing" schemes out there than you can shake a talisman at. Just pick up one of the "alternative" publicatio
  by Robert L. Wolke
• Creationism, catastrophism, and Velikovsky: catastrophism is a tenet of biblical fundamentalism . Immanuel Velikovsky was a neocatastrophist. What use did creationism make of his theories?
  by William D. Stansfield
• Unrivaled acumen, communitarian passion
  by Kenneth W. Krause
• AIDS denialism
  by Thomas Kraemer
• 'Middle ground' muddled?
  by Adam Zar
• Difficulty in debunking myths rooted in the way the mind works
  by Shankar Vedantam
• Haunting evidence follow-up: TV psychic detectives fail again
  by Benjamin Radford
• One large defeat for science in Canada
  by Gary Bauslaugh
• Born to believe
  by David Ludden
• Decompression quackery
  by A. Loren Amacher
• Why do I call myself a rationalist?
  by Richard M. Cooper
• Council of Europe approves resolution against creationism
  by Martin Mahner
• Dangerous ideas on the loose
  by Kenneth W. Krause
• Storm world
  by David E. Steiner
• 'Fine-tuned' argument self-defeating
  by Roman Swiatkowski
• Exciting UFOs become bland IFOs
  by Joe Nickell
• Who Moved My Secret?: The Ancient Wisdom That Tells You It's Okay To Be Greedy
  by Benjamin Radford
• It's all a conspiracy
  by Marion Jimenez
• Mistaken geology?
  by Dave Kurdzionak, Pinard, Andrew
• Is intelligent design creationism?
  by Massimo Pigliucci
• Adventures in Paranormal Investigations
  by Benjamin Radford
• Surviving the apocalypse
  by Kurt Youngmann
• The Science of Chemistry
  by Benjamin Radford
• The Legend of the Pied Piper
  by Massimo Polidoro
• Evolution: A Historical Perspective
  by Kendrick Frazier
• What?! No Loch Ness monster?
  by Dan Whipple
• Chiropractic: a profession seeking identity: the chiropractic profession is resisting changes that will establish it as a back-pain specialty while seeking an identity that will continue to allow chiropractors to treat a broad scope of health problems
  by Samuel Homola
• The Jinn From Hyperspace and Other Scribblings—Both Serious and Whimsical
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Gallup Poll: suggestions
  by Eric Kohler
• A painful legal case is resolved in favor of open inquiry
  by Kendrick Frazier
• A skeptical consumer's look at chiropractic claims: flimflam in Florida? There is no scientifically credible evidence that chiropractic treatment can alleviate high blood pressure or arthritis, yet when an author called the offices of local chiropractors
  by Bruce Thyer