Skeptical Inquirer

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Articles in Sept-Oct 2005 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• Exposing psychic scams
  by Bryan Farha
• Questioning the obesity myth
  by Benjamin Radford
• Famous 'psychic healer' arrested in Toronto
  by Kim Stewart
• The twin paradox
  by Dave Thomas
• Science and gender
  by Irwin Tessman
• These files may be 'real-life'—but is she really 'psychic'?
  by Gary P. Posner
• PBS series Nova to feature 'Einstein's Big Idea'
• Special relativity after 100 years: special relativity has been phenomenally successful, but its nonintuitive nature has made it difficult for us to absorb Einstein's central message about time and simultaneity
  by John Geohegan
• Gaia hypothesis
  by James Lovelock
• Sylvia Browne's latest: ghost-written?
  by Joe Nickell
• Deadly rituals: nun dies during convent exorcism
  by Benjamin Radford
• The God of Eth: are the usual religious defenses of belief in God really up to the job? A dialogue
  by Stephen Law
• 'Jane Doe' recovered memory lawsuit appeal
  by Kim Stewart
• Crichton critique
  by Harriet Hall
• Galileo's Children: Tales of Science vs. Superstition
• Tom Cruise, Scientology bash psychiatry; APA fires back
  by Amanda Chesworth
• Palm readers, stargazers, and scientists: a critique of futurism
  by Richard L. Miller
• Beware of quacks at the WHO: objecting to the WHO draft report on homeopathy
  by Cees N.M. Renckens
• Puzzle solved by teen
  by Andrew Jannette
• A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers and Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes and Frauds
• Mystical experiences: magnetic fields or suggestibility?
  by Joe Nickell
• An unusual twist in testing media psychics
  by Wendy M. Grossman
• The power and perils of metaphors in science
  by Massimo Pigliucci
• Fashionable nonsense really is fashionable
  by Richard Carrier
• Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Path: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman
• Italy's 'miracle' relics
  by Joe Nickell
• Eloquent but gloomy
  by Ralph Estling
• The photograph of Carl Sagan on the July/August 2005 cover was taken by Tom Flynn
• Truth: A Guide
• Obesity epidemic? Elixirs of life? Where's the truth?
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Beware of poltergeists
  by Massimo Polidoro
• Mortal Minds: The Biology of Near Death Experiences
• Testing the girl with X-ray eyes
  by Joseph Anthony Soyo
• Bill Nye launches 'The Eyes of Nye'
  by Kim Stewart
• Obesity: epidemic or myth? New evidence shows that the obesity epidemic is not as bad as we have been led to believe. However, that doesn't mean that we should dismiss the problem either
  by Patrick Johnson
• Statistics of the Natasha test: response to concerns and questions
  by Ray Hyman
• Top ten best sellers
• Gallup poll shows that Americans' belief in the paranormal persists
  by David Park Musella
• The elixir of life: green tea or red wine? Green tea, steeped in an ancient civilization, conquered the West because of its supposed health effects. Wine, particularly red wine, is a relative newcomer to the health scene. Tea leaves and red grapes are sai
  by William H. Baarschers
• Myths about evolution
  by Richard Dawkins
• Isaac Newton, astrologer?
  by Benjamin Radford
• Italian skeptics debunk crop circle electromagnetic radiation claim
• We can still learn lessons from Einstein's watershed year
  by Gary L. Bennett