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