Skeptical Inquirer

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Articles in Sept-Oct 1998 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• Coincidences: remarkable or random? - What are the Chances? - Cover Story
  by Bruce Martin
• Numerology: comes the revolution - What are the Chances?
  by Underwood Dudley
• Massive uncritical publicity for supposed 'independent UFO investigation' demonstrates media gullibility once again - includes related article on TV networks' role in misinforming public about UFOs
  by Robert Sheaffer
• Calculated risks - What are the Chances?
  by K.C. Cole
• 'Pi' April Fool's joke gets out of hand - and goes around the world
  by David E. Thomas
• How to study weird things - channeling students' interest in unconventional topics to credible academic subjects
  by Frank Trocco
• Into the Nagual at last: new age author Carlos Casteneda dies - Obituary
  by Joe Szimhart
• Why would people not believe weird things?
  by Wayne R. Anderson
• New polls points to increase in paranormal belief - Yankelovich Partners poll
  by Matt Nisbet
• Starkle, starkle, little twink - challenging astrology
  by Judith Hayes
• The Aztec UFO symposium: how this saucer story started as a con game
  by David E. Thomas
• Of planets and cognitions: the use of deductive inference in the natural sciences and psychology
  by Henry D. Schlinger, Jr.
• What's going on at Temple University? - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  by Martin Gardner
• Nonconscious Movements: From Mystical Messages to Facilitated Communication. - book reviews
  by Carol Tavris
• Alien implants: the new 'hard evidence.'
  by Joe Nickell
• UFOs and Alien Contact: Two Centuries of Mystery. - book reviews
  by Robert A. Baker
• Apocalypse foiled again; UFOlogists shoot for the moon - Chen Tao cult's prediction; Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
  by Robert Sheaffer
• Therapeutic Madness. - book reviews
  by Robert A. Baker