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Volume 31, Number 6
November / December 2007

VACCINES & AUTISM: Myths and Misconceptions

The Anti-Vaccination Movement

STEVEN NOVELLA

Vaccine Safety: Vaccines Are One of Public Health’s Great Accomplishments

RICHARD G. JUDELSOHN

Interview with Roy Richard Grinker Author of Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism

BENJAMIN RADFORD

ARTICLES

The End of the Einstein – Astrology-Supporter Hoax

DENIS HAMEL

Biodynamics in the Wine Bottle

DOUGLASS SMITH AND JESÚS BARQUÍN

Masaru Emoto’s Wonderful World of Water

Harriet Hall

COMMENT AND OPINION

‘Why Won’t They Admit They’re Wrong?’ and Other Skeptics’ Mysteries

CAROL TAVRIS and ELLIOT ARONSON

The Best of All Health Care

EDZARD ERNST

COLUMNS

EDITOR’S NOTE

Protecting Our Valuable Vaccine Programs

NEWS AND COMMENT

  • Out of Body and in the Lab: New Experiments Stimulate Seeing Self Elsewhere
  • Weekly World News Dies in Print, Lives On on the Web
  • Studies Challenge Garlic, Beetroot Treatments against HIV
  • Tributes to Barry Beyerstein, Champion of Critical Thinking, Skeptical Inquiry
  • Ralph Estling, Eclectic Writer, 1930–2007
  • Paul MacCready (1925–2007)

INVESTIGATIVE FILES

The Netherlands: Visions and Revisions

JOE NICKELL

THINKING ABOUT SCIENCE

Beyond Selfish Genes

Massimo Pigliucci

NOTES ON A STRANGE WORLD

Spook Hills in the Lab

Massimo Polidoro

SKEPTICAL INQUIREE

A Time to Die?

Benjamin Radford

FORUM

What Is Common about Common Sense?
Perspectives from Anthropology

LATHEL F. DUFFIELD

FOLLOW-UP

The Global Warming Debate: Science and Scientists in a Democracy

Stuart D. Jordan

BOOK REVIEWS

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience
By Stanton T. Friedman and Kathleen Marden

ROBERT SHEAFFER

The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
By Drew Westen

PETER LAMAL

40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania
By Matthew Chapman

GREG MARTINEZ

Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries
By Neil deGrasse Tyson

KENNETH W. KRAUSE

The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason
By Iain McCalman

RICHARD PETRAITIS

Darwin’s Origin of Species: A Biography
By Janet Browne

The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
By David Quammen

GREG MARTINEZ