Skeptical Inquirer

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Articles in Nov-Dec 2004 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• The Evolution of Darwinism: Selection, Adaptation, and Progress in Evolutionary Biology
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Fabric of the cosmos
  by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos
• Well, Larry—you've done it again
  by Bryan Farha
• Why SETI is science and UFOlogy is not
  by Mark Moldwin
• Truth, Knowledge, or Just Plain Bull: How to Tell the Difference
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Psychic Sylvia Browne once failed to foresee her own criminal conviction
  by Joe Nickell
• Blind spots, brain maps, and backaches: a new chiropractic delusion: a new test that measures the size of the blind spot to detect altered brain function and correct it with chiropractic adjustments is a house of cards built on flawed logic and one unbeli
  by Harriet A. Hall
• Radiation and Modern Life
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Senate intelligence committee highlights need for skeptical inquiry
  by Benjamin Radford
• Stupid dino tricks: a visit to Kent Hovind's Dinosaur Adventure Land: young-earth creationist Kent Hovind has built a dinosaur-filled theme park in the Florida panhandle and claims to prove that evolution is bunk. A visit there shows that it is definitely
  by Greg Martinez
• Knowledge about nature
  by Don Keith
• Rorschach icons
  by Joe Nickell
• Explaining the plagues of Egypt: the ten plagues of Egypt, as told in the Book of Exodus, can be easily explained. Or maybe not…
  by Jeffrey A. Lee
• Doubt: a History
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Nobelist Francis Crick, stalwart supporter of CSICOP and the center for inquiry, mourned
  by Paul Kurtz
• The path to discovery and the impact on culture
  by Kendrick Frazier
• And the mechanism is …
  by Massimo Pigliucci
• Discovering human interconnection through the history of our genes
  by Mark W. Durm
• The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
  by Kendrick Frazier
• APS's Bob Park elected a CSICOP fellow
• Russian reports add new twist to old Tunguska UFO myth
  by James Oberg
• Tunguska 1, Roswell 0
  by Robert Sheaffer
• Biblical pseudoarchaeology by a Swedish professor of medicine
  by Martin Rundkvist
• Science best sellers: top ten best sellers
• David Morrison named 2004 Sagan medalist
• French group tests man's claims to sense a person's presence
  by Kendrick Frazier
• The secrets of Rennes-le-Chateau
  by Massimo Polidoro
• Panic Attacks: Media Manipulation and Mass Delusions
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Pascal's wager
  by John G. Fletcher
• Why Intelligent Design Fails: a Scientific Critique of the New Creationism
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Capital punishment and homicide: two kinds of statistical studies
  by George Rowell
• New details emerge about psychic's airline bomb threat tip
  by Benjamin Radford
• A call for attention to climate change
  by Chris Mooney
• My wife—and the dialectics of external historicity
  by Ralph Estling
• Evolution vs. Creationism: an Introduction
  by Kendrick Frazier
• A new ally for science and skepticism?
  by Jim Mica
• Prayers, psychics fail to find missing women
  by Benjamin Radford
• Bacteria, ulcers, and ostracism? H. pylori and the making of a myth: medicine's purported ostracism of the discovery of H. pylori has achieved a mythological quality. But it isn't true. After appropriate initial scientific skepticism, the hypothesis was a
  by Kimball C. Atwood, IV
• Brain 'design'? Not!
  by C. Leon Harris
• Fortuneteller allowed at fair despite law
  by Benjamin Radford
• Science and the public: is science making us more ignorant? The attempt to integrate basic cultural beliefs with the scientific outlook calls for a new interdisciplinary academic field. Such a field could contribute to the debate over public literacy in s
  by Austin Dacey