Skeptical Inquirer
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Articles in Nov-Dec 2006 issue of Skeptical Inquirer
- Death of a demonologist: Ed Warren dead at 79
by Joe Nickell - Nature is nowhere rectangular: Galileo's Starry Messenger meets Matisse's Le Guignon: science and art each result from intense seeing. Evidence can be a beautiful thing
by Edward Tufte - Review of Kurzweil's Singularity Is Near
by Chris Mack - The Enigma We Answer by Living
by Alison Hawthorne Deming - Cosmic difference?
by Richard Gradkowski - String theory
by Clifford A. Pickover - Crystal Skull Story
by Ron Smart - Pleiadvm constellatio
- 'Issues of broad public importance'
- A Little Mumba
by Jennifer Michael Hecht - Footnote to astrology
by Lawrence Cranberg - Shame on Shamus Sham
by Joe Nickell - Creativity versus skepticism within science: more harm has been done in science by those who make a fetish out of skepticism, aborting ideas before they are born, than by those who gullibly accept untested theories
by V.S. Ramachandran - A rare contribution to the rant literature in the sciences
by Robert P. Crease - Responsibility for behavior
by Terence Hines - Siege of 'Little Green Men': the 1955 Kelly, Kentucky, incident
by Joe Nickell - This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
by Austin Dacey - 2006 Ad
by Nathan Bupp - Design, doubts, and Darwin
by Kenneth W. Krause - Teaching critical thinking
by Sharon Schwarze - Art, science, and creativity
by Kendrick Frazier - The devious art of improvising, lesson one
by Massimo Polidoro - The Top 10 Myths About Evolution
by Kendrick Frazier - The neuro-philosophy of regret
by Massimo Pigliucci - Critical chiropractor, inept publisher
by Harriet A. Hall - For the record
- Leakey fights church campaign to downgrade Kenya museum's human fossils
by Kendrick Frazier - Searching to Noah Vale
by Benjamin Radford - Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual
by Austin Dacey - Scientology losing ground to new Fictionology
- The privacy threat, revelations, and relevancy
by Wendy M. Grossman - Center for Inquiry launches Public Policy Office in Washington
by Nathan Bupp - Introduction
by Austin Dacey - Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal Life
by Kendrick Frazier - From of Sum
by Forrest Gander - Spirited defense: William James and the Ghost Hunters
by Joe Nickell - Florida Medicaid to cover acupuncture
by Greg Martinez - The humanities and human nature: what does psycholinguistics have to do with poetics, or fiction with mental computation? Nothing, according to the academic humanities as currently practiced. So much the worse for them
by Steven Pinker - Philosophy behind Pseudoscience
by Glade Ross - Le Guignon
- Beautiful Evidence
by Austin Dacey - Creationist Hovind's legal woes continue
by Greg Martinez - Why we read fiction: two areas of research in cognitive evolutionary psychology and anthropology offer tentative but nevertheless exciting insights into cravings that are satisfied—and intensified—by reading fiction
by Lisa Zunshine - The STEP prayer study
by Peter Marston - Tsunami
by Roald Hoffmann - Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays
by Kendrick Frazier - Recent deaths
by Kendrick Frazier - View masters: the remarkable triumphs of masters in the artist's studio —and even one in the batter's box—have realigned perceptions of vision
by Margaret S. Livingstone - Thucydides on wishful thinking
by Steven Gardell - Sound: not as simple as it sounds: an interview with Joshua Fineberg: a child of psychoacoustics and the computer revolution, the "spectral music" movement is turning Western art music on it ear
by Austin Dacey - Pleistocene archaeology
by Bradley T. Lepper