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