Skeptical Inquirer

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Articles in Nov-Dec 1998 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• Science and reason, foibles and fallacies, and doomsdays - Second World Skeptics Congress in Heidelberg, Germany
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Much ado about nothing: the 'fateful hoaxing' of Margaret Mead - American anthropologist
  by James E. Cote
• Anti-science postmodernists - Jean Bricmont's session at Second World Skeptics Congress
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman, and the issue of evolution
  by Paul Shankman
• Alternative medicine, impact threats, abrupt climate change, and efficient energy - Second World Skeptics Congress
  by Matt Nisbett
• The Martian panic sixty years later: what have we learned?
  by Robert E. Bartholomew
• U.K. broadcast commission rejects Geller's 'Secrets of the Psychics' complaint - Uri Geller's complaint against skeptical television program
  by Susan Blackmore
• The perils of post-hockery - interpretations of alleged phenomena after the fact
  by John Ruscio
• Myth and mystery in southern climates
  by Joe Nickell
• May the force be with you - electromagnetic fields generated by human thoughts
  by Lawrence M. Krauss
• Tolstoy predicts Bulls' sixth championship - in code of course - Chicago Bulls
  by David E. Thomas
• Hoax and Reality: The Bizarre World of Multiple Personality Disorder. - book reviews
  by Scott O. Lilienfeld
• The pseudoscience of ear wax removal
  by Stephen DeMeo
• Abracadabra: Secret Methods Magicians and Others Use to Deceive Their Audience. - book reviews
  by Robert A. Baker
• Science and the unknowable
  by Martin Gardner
• Penn and Teller's How to Play in Traffic. - book reviews
  by Peter Huston
• Helix to heaven: the staircase stands but the myth falls - mystery of spiral stairway at Sisters of Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico
  by Joe Nickell
• Who is the cat that curiosity killed? - importance of psychology in life
  by Elizabeth Loftus
• Gaps in the fossil record: a case study
  by David A. Thomas
• From the anthropic principle to the supernatural - book 'God: The Evidence
  by David A. Shotwell