Skeptical Inquirer

View more issues: March-April 2004, May-June 2004, Sept-Oct 2004

Articles in July-August 2004 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• 'Great Discoveries' series off to a promising start
  by Greg Martinez
• Religion natural?
  by John G. Fletcher
• Photographs shown to trigger false memories
  by David Park Musella
• Fictional cops slay imaginary giant critter
  by Ed Kemmick
• A response to myths about reinforcement
  by Peter Lamal
• Secular Europe
  by Barry Thorpe
• PBS 'Secrets of the Dead' buries the truth about Turin Shroud
  by Joe Nickell
• Missing time with Art Bell
  by Alexander D. Allins
• The Mystery Chronicles: More Real-Life X-Files
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Not Too Bright?
  by Adrian Boyle
• Mythical Mexico
  by Joe Nickell
• The Making of Bigfoot: the Inside Story
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Stigmatist: nothing miraculous
  by John Zachritz
• Skepticism, a philosophical viewpoint
  by Massimo Pigliucci
• The Robot Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Sources of knowledge
  by Peter Marston
• Down with Darwin! How things can suddenly change for the worse when you least expect it
  by Massimo Polidoro
• Are You Conscious and Can You Prove It? Short Science Essays
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Brain design?
  by April Pedersen
• Same data, opposite conclusions: what gives?
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Toutatis threatens totally
  by Robert Sheaffer
• The Foreseeable Future: a Rational Approach to Prediction
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Professor challenger
  by John Alfred Taylor
• Mexican Air Force UFOs likely equipment artifacts
  by Kevin Christopher
• Capital punishment and homicide: sociological realities and econometric illusions: does exciting murderers cut the homicide rate or not? Comparative studies show there is no effect. Econometric models, in contrast, show a mixture of results. Why the diffe
  by Ted Goertzel
• Seeing the world through rose-colored glasses: Scotopic Sensitivity/Irlen Syndrome: Helen Irlen and her followers claim that dyslexia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and autism are all associated with "Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome,"
  by Alan D. Bowd
• Science best sellers
• Absurd Hampton 'ghost'
  by Dave Gardner
• Report: looming shortage of scientists
  by David Park Musella
• Defending science—within reason: the critical common-sensist manifesto: a noted philosopher of science proposes a "Critical Common-sensist" account of how science proceeds, which she believes can correct the :over-optimism of the Old Defere
  by Susan Haack
• Fundamental cosmological understanding eludes us
  by James N. Gardner
• Science and Religion 2004
  by Liza Cerroni-Long
• Shroud not hoax, not miracle
  by Raymond N. Rogers
• Psychic's false bomb tip cancels flight
  by Benjamin Radford
• Exposing Roger Patterson's 1967 Bigfoot film hoax: new revelations shed light on a world-famous, much-debated film supposedly showing a Bigfoot creature
  by Kal K. Korff
• Well-designed book skewers ID targets
  by Matt Young
• Susan Haack's point of honor
  by Guy Potvin
• Jeffrey, the Southern Sham: ghost photo consultant nonexistent
  by Mark W. Durm
• Pranks, frauds, and hoaxes from around the world: it's pretty easy to hoax people. We all want to be deceived, but only up to a point. Some hoaxes are fun and pleasant, others malicious and unpleasant. We'd like a way to tell the difference
  by Robert Carroll