Skeptical Inquirer
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Articles in Sept-Oct 1997 issue of Skeptical Inquirer
- Alternative medicine in a scientific world
by Kendrick Frazier - Extraterrestrial iconography - variations in described appearances of alien creatures over time
by Joe Nickell - Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture. - book reviews
by Taner Edis - World survives Roswell hysteria, aliens remain elusive - alleged crash of an alien space ship in Roswell, NM, in 1947 - includes related article on Air Force report on alleged Roswell UFO sighting - News and Comment
by Kendrick Frazier - 'Dark Skies' uses pseudo-Sagan to recast astronomer's motives - defunct NBC network television program on so-called alien encounters
by C. Eugene Emery, Jr. - In Search of the Light: The Adventures of a Parapsychologist. - book reviews
by Robert A. Baker - AIAA honors scientist who says he caused Roswell incident - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; physicist Charles B. Moore; alleged alien spaceship crash in Roswell, NM in 1947 - News and Comment
by Lawrence Spohn - The truth is, they never were 'saucers.' - flying saucers or unidentified flying objects
by Robert Sheaffer - Scams From the Great Beyond: How to Make Easy Money Off of ESP, Astrology, UFOs, Crop Circles, Cattle Mutilations, Alien Abductions, Atlantis, Channeling, and Other New Age Nonsense. - book reviews
by David Bloomberg - New accounts of UFOs affect beliefs, Purdue researcher Glenn Sparks finds - unidentified flying objects - News and Comment
- Alternative medicine and the laws of physics
by Robert L. Park - Skeptical 'Simpsons' episode spoofs aliens, pseudoscience - animated television series - News and Comment
by Mike Brown - Why bogus therapies seem to work - alternative therapy practices unmasked
by Barry L. Beyerstein - The electronic poltergeist - News and comment
by Joe Nickell - Inconsistencies and errors in alternative medicine research
by Wallace Sampson - Religious belief among scientists stable for eighty years - survey on US scientists' belief in God
by Thomas C. Genoni, Jr. - Pseudoscience in alternative medicine
by Saul Green - Bending the mind, bending the data? - report on claims of alternative therapies author Herbert Benson
by C. Eugene Emery, Jr. - Skewing the scientific worldview - alternative medicine literature
by Ursula W. Goodenough - The San Luis Valley crystal skull: A transparent mystery - Colorado
by Judy R. Lewallen - Taking a bite out of shark cartilage - an evaluation of shark cartilage as an alternative therapy for the prevention and cure of cancer
by Lynn McCutcheon - The numerology of Dr. Rashad Khalifa - scientist
by Martin Gardner - Medical school faith healing: report on a spirituality conference
by Bryant Furlow