Skeptical Inquirer

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Articles in July-August 1997 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• Art Bell, Heaven's Gate, and journalistic integrity - UFO trailing the Comet Hale-Bopp myth perpetrated by radio talk show host Art Bell
  by Thomas C. Genoni, Jr.
• Conjuring Science: Scientific Symbols and Cultural Meanings in American Life. - book reviews
  by Edward Slowik
• What really happened at Roswell - truth behind the July 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico
  by Kal K. Korff
• Cranes and skyhooks - different notions about science
  by Ralph Estling
• Interview with Kal Korff - author of 'The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know' - Interview
• The filling of scholarly vacuums - anything goes philosophy in the academe
  by George Englebretsen
• Son of originator of 'Alien Autopsy' story casts doubt on father's credibility
  by Timothy Spencer Carr
• Examining the amazing free-energy claims of Dennis Lee
  by Eric Krieg
• Center for Inquiry Institute launches three-year academic program
  by Joe Nickell
• Chiropractic: science and antiscience and pseudoscience side by side
  by Joseph C. Keating, Jr.
• UFO mythology: the escape to oblivion - Heaven's Gate cult
  by Paul Kurtz
• Secrets of a Russian psychic - truth behind Alla Vinogradova's psychokinetic ability
  by Massimo Polidoro
• Heaven's Gate: the UFO cult of Bo and Peep - Heaven's Gate founders Marshall Herff Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Trousdale Nettles
  by Martin Gardner
• Multiple Identities and False Memories: A Sociocognitive Perspective. - book reviews
  by Robert A. Baker
• The Two: a fantasy-assessment biography - characteristics of Heaven's Gate cult founders Marshall Herff Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Trousdale Nettles
  by Joe Nickell
• Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America. - book reviews
  by Henry Bauer
• Can we prevent cult deaths?
  by Thomas R. Casten
• Einstein, History, and Other Passions: The Rebellion Against Science at the End of the Twentieth Century. - book reviews
  by Daniel Stern