Skeptical Inquirer
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Articles in May-June 2005 issue of Skeptical Inquirer
- Loftus wins $200,000 Grawemeyer Award for her memory research
- Claims of invalid 'shroud' radiocarbon date cut from whole cloth
by Joe Nickell - The psychologist, the philosopher, and the librarian: the information-literacy version of CRITIC: the information-literacy version of CRITIC expands upon Wayne R. Bartz's development of that acronym. This step-by-step method for introductory critical thin
by Brad Matthies - Creationism: The Bible Says No! Eric J. Hildeman
by Kendrick Frazier - History of science: H. Pylori and the Making of a Myth
by Kimball Atwood - CSI's Anthony Zuiker: TV's man of the century?
by Chris Volkay - Rebuttal to Joe Nickell
by Raymond N. Rogers - Bad science, bad fiction, and an agenda
by Chris Mooney - Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries? Martin Gardner
by Kendrick Frazier - Off the mark
by Barry G. Clark - Science, seeing, and cosmological worldviews
by Kendrick Fraizer - Newspaper's 'psychic experts' wash out with hurricane predictions
by Gary Posner - Second sight: the phenomenon of eyeless vision
by Joe Nickell - Kindness explained
by Peter Lamal - The case for decentralized generation of electricity
by John Coviello - Florida legislators, FSU faculty clash over proposed chiropractic school at university
by John Gaeddert - Centuries-old puzzle solved by calgary teen
by David Park Musella - The so-called Gaia hypothesis
by Massimo Pigliucci - Nonsense in vogue
by Phil Mole - Responding to demagogues
by Charles Fusner - Shark cartilage cancer 'cure' shows danger of pseudoscience
- Recent deaths
- There's a UFO in my painting!
by Massimo Polidoro - 2005 Ad
- Piltdown and science
by Dennis C. Shaw - "Psychic' con artist caught in police sting
by David Park Musella - Alleged reagan astrologer dies
by Joe Nickell - Tsunami conspiracies and Hollow Moons
by Robert Sheaffer - A closer look at medium
by William Harwood - Early humans' ability to talk key
by Paul K. Brandon - Internet group donates evolution texts to Dover High School
- Indian rationalist H. Narasimhaiah dies at 84
by Amardeo Sarma - Testing Natasha: can a seventeen-year-old girl truly "see" inside a person's body? Ray Hyman and colleagues conducted tests to search for the truth inside The Girl with X-Ray Eyes
by Ray Hyman - Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and other Pseudoscience
by Kendrick Frazier - JFK assassination car
by Robert J. Coffey - CSICOP launches creation watch Web site
- Quoteworthy
- Natasha Demkina: the girl with normal eyes: many people in Russia and the United Kingdom believe a teenage girl can identify diseases in patients better than their physicians. Investigators who tested the medical psychic for a Discovery Channel program do
by Andrew A. Skolnick - Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science
by Kendrick Frazier - Images and expectations
by Jose Antonio Cabo - "Ancient Universe' booklet explains the great age of the changing cosmos
- Brains, biology, science, and skepticism: on thinking about sex differences
by Carol Tavris - Psychic swindlers: an investigative television reporter looking into a shady psychic uncovers a dangerous underworld of fraud and scams
by Amy Davis - True Warnings and False Alarms: Evaluating Fears about the Health Risks of Technology, 1948-1971
by Kendrick Frazier - Ghost ship Mary Celeste
by Peter Ansoff - Astronomy, astrologywhat's the difference? It's politics
by Frank Reiser - Johnny Carson remembered
by James Randi - Getting the monkey off Darwin's back: four common myths about evolution: evolution is poorly characterized by certain commonly used phrases. Properly communicating how evolution works requires careful attention to language and metaphor
by Charles Sullivan - Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown
by Kendrick Frazier - ID's, Raelians' 'designer'?
by Kent Barnett