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1. Skeptical Inquirer vol.33 no.2 March-April 2009
Articles:
The Pearl Harbor
‘Winds Message’ Controversy: A New Critical Evaluation
KENDRICK FRAZIER
Science and Antiscience in America
Why It Matters
ELIZABETH SHERMAN
What Open-Mindedness Requires
WILLIAM HARE
Deep History or Shallow Cognition?
Cognitive Biases and ‘Esoteric History’
JOHN RAY
The Potential Habitable Zone on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
FELIX WASIAK
Commentary:
Science, Reason, and the Obama Administration
KENDRICK FRAZIER
Columns:
EDITOR’S NOTE
Happy Birthday, Mr. Darwin
NEWS AND COMMENT
Judge Jones and the Science/Religion Debate at Ohio State / Dutch, Belgian Creationist Groups Unite to Bring Anti-Evolution Message to Six Million / Six Common Medical Myths Gain Wide Attention / For the Record / UFOs by the Numbers
INVESTIGATIVE FILES
Searching for Vampire Graves
JOE NICKELL
THINKING ABOUT SCIENCE
The Tree of Life
Massimo Pigliucci
NOTES ON A STRANGE WORLD
Ghostly Molds
Massimo Polidoro
THE SKEPTICAL INQUIREE
Curious Contrails: Death from the Sky?
Benjamin Radford
FORUM
How to Get Rich Quickly with ‘Alternative’ Medicine
EDZARD ERNST
FOLLOW-UP
What Do Skeptics Need to Explain?
DALE BEYERSTEIN
Critique of ‘The Bipolar Bamboozle’
NIGEL BARK
Response to Critique of the ‘Bipolar Bamboozle’
STEPHEN FLORA
Reviews:
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
By Richard A. Muller
reviewed by KENNETH W. KRAUSE
Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
By Paul A. Offit, MD
reviewed by GREG MARTINEZ
Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution
By Karl W. Giberson
reviewed by GLENN BRANCH
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
By Neil Shubin
reviewed by DANIEL GRASSAM
Paranormal State: The Complete Season One
BRIAN THOMPSON
2. Skeptical Inquirer vol.33 issue3 May-June 2009
Life and Planet
Evolution, Climate Change Two Grand Themes of AAAS Science Fest
by KENDRICK FRAZIER
ARTICLES
Science and Pseudoscience in Adult Nutrition Research and Practice
Human nutrition research and practice is plagued by pseudoscience and unsupported opinions. A scientific analysis separates reliable nutrition facts
from nutritional pseudoscience and false opinion.
by REYNOLD SPECTOR
Playing by the Rules
It is useless for skeptics to argue with someone who doesn’t play by the rules of science and reason. If no amount of evidence will change your opponent’s mind, you are wasting your breath.
by HARRIET HALL
Ghosts, Doughnuts, and A Christmas Carol
Investigating New Mexico’s ‘Haunted’ KiMo Theater
A careful investigation into one of the most famous haunted theaters in the Southwest reveals much about how ghost stories get started—and are perpetuated.
by BENJAMIN RADFORD
The Roots of Skepticism
Why Ancient Ideas Still Apply Today
Some of the central ideas of ancient skepticism have historical significance and still influence contemporary skeptical and scientific inquiry.
by CHRISTOPHER diCARLO
COMMENTARY
The Great Global Cooling Myth and the Politics of Science
by JOHN FLECK
POLICY FORUM
Repower America? Science Communication and the Obama Presidency
by MATTHEW C. NISBET
NEWS AND COMMENT
Autism-Vaccine Link Researcher Andrew Wakefield Accused of Faking His Data / More Studies Reject Vaccine-Autism Link / Scientists Hail Gallo’s ‘Unsung’ Role in Nobel HIV/AIDS Discovery / Selective Memory at Work When Patients ‘Predict’ Own Death / A Modern Witch Craze in Papua New Guinea / Remembering Henry Gordon, Magician, Skeptic, Debunker / Report Knocks Baylor Claim about American Religiosity / Spanish Skeptics Magazine Pensar Suspends Publication / CFI/Los Angeles Celebrates Darwin’s 200th Birthday with Readings, Plays, Lecture
INVESTIGATIVE FILES
Demons in Connecticut
by JOE NICKELL
THINKING ABOUT SCIENCE
Hard and Soft Science: Physics vs. Psychology
by MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI
NOTES ON A STRANGE WORLD
Eusapia Palladino, the Queen of the Cabinet, Part 1
by MASSIMO POLIDORO
THE SKEPTICAL INQUIREE
The Pseudoscience of Personalysis
by BENJAMIN RADFORD
REVIEWS
FLAT EARTH: THE HISTORY OF AN INFAMOUS IDEA
By Christine Garwood
review by ROBERT ASHTON
A COLOSSAL HOAX: THE GIANT FROM CARDIFF THAT FOOLED AMERICA
By Scott Tribble
review by JOE NICKELL
THE MIND OF THE MARKET: COMPASSIONATE APES, COMPETITIVE HUMANS, AND OTHER TALES FROM EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS
By Michael Shermer
review by JOSEPH KEIERLEBER