Skeptical Inquirer

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Articles in Sept-Oct 2006 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• The fabricated cosmonaut and the nonexistent prophecy
  by Luis Alfonso Gamez
• The bloodless fish of Bouvet Island: DNA and evolution in action: an obscure bloodless fish living in the remote subfreezing waters of the Antarctic vividly illustrates how evolution works, and why understanding evolution matters
  by Sean B. Carroll
• Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Common sense and intelligent design
  by William F. Vitulli
• The vigorous science of evolution
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Science and the public: summing up thirty years of the Skeptical Inquirer
  by Paul Kurtz
• Name dropping: want to be a star? If you think that a star can be named after you, and that once one is, it's all official, think again. The whole commercial "star registry" charade is awkward for astronomers
  by Philip Plait
• Top ten best sellers
• Carla Baron, psychic detective? Not quite
  by Brian Hart
• Predator panic: a closer look
  by Benjamin Radford
• Why what we know isn't necessarily so
  by Peter Lamal
• Tell it like it was
  by Susan Bury
• Alleged psychic convicted of murder
  by Benjamin Radford
• Should the NHS provide complementary therapy?
  by Edzard Ernst
• Plunging into the depths of a mystery
  by Michael Dennett
• Search for intelligent life: reassessing SETI
  by Timothy Ferris
• Update: charges against Ontario 'healer' dropped
  by Julie Lavarnway
• Ghost hunters
  by Joe Nickell
• H.P. Lovecraft and 'extraterrestrial genesis'
  by Pat Harrigan
• Teaching Pigs to Sing
  by Philip E. Johnson
• British defense study debunks UFO sightings
  by David Park Musella
• One more take on reductionism vs. holism
  by Massimo Pigliucci
• Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Physics and philosophy
  by Ken Olum
• Author, Professor Vern Bullough dies
  by Paul Kurtz
• Behind the mask
  by Massimo Polidoro
• Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think About the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Don't forget Canada!
  by Jay Ingram
• Parade's Rosenfeld reprises dubious acupuncture claim
  by Gary Posner
• Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like bilked bananas
  by Robert Sheaffer
• Darwinism and Its Discontents
  by Kendrick Frazier
• X-rays and oOsteoarthritis
  by Richard G. Spencer
• Science ain't an exact science: public perception of science in the wake of the stem-cell fraud: as public awareness and trust of science appears to be waning in the U.S., scientists and supporters of science must be realistic about scientific method and
  by David Koepsell
• New psychic detective reality series: Haunting Evidence
  by Benjamin Radford
• Go, go, ghost gadgets
  by Benjamin Radford
• Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Whelan commentary
  by Myra Jones
• Can Jim Berkland predict earthquakes? Jim Berkland claims to be able to predict earthquakes. Such earth-shaking claims, however, appear to be groundless
  by Roger Hunter
• Skeptic's lawsuit stalls 'Psychic' Renier's Book
  by Gary Posner
• The neural substrates of moral, religious, and paranormal beliefs: recent research shows that moral, religious, and paranormal beliefs relate to specific workings of the brain
  by Marcello Spinella
• The Power of Critical Thinking: Effective Reasoning About Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Self-help movement
  by David Dvorkin
• Sex, Drugs, and DNA: Science's Taboos Confronted
  by Kendrick Frazier