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Vol. 19, No. 2, March/April 1995


Articles

Remembering Dangerously by Elizabeth Loftus
Like the witch-hunt trials of old, people today are being accused and even imprisoned on 'evidence' provided by memories from dreams and flashbacks--memories that didn't exist before therapy. What is going on here?

Severe Flaws in Scientific Study Criticizing Evolution by Dan Larhammar
Undocumented experiments, unreasonable precisions, and nonexistent references indicate the Kuznetsov critique has no scientific basis.

'Lights Out': A Faxlore Phenomenon by Jan Harold Brunvand
In late summer of 1993 a warning about murderous gang initiations caused national concern.

Antiscience in Academia: Knocking Science for Fun and Profit by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt
Science criticism based solidly in knowledge of science is valuable, but a new ideologically based criticism of science as a way of thought has become fashionable in academic circles and is debasing public discourse about important issues of science and technology.

How Feminism Is Now Alienating Women From Science by Noretta Koertge
Instead of exhorting young women to prepare for a variety of technical subjects by studying science, logic, and mathematics, Women's Studies students are now being taught that logic is a tool of domination.

Book Reviews

Higher Superstition by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt
Reviewed by Keith M. Parsons

Higher Superstition by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt
Reviewed by Taner Edis and Amy Sue Bix

Science as Power by Stanley Aronowitz
Questioning Technology Edited by John Zerhan and Alice Carnes
Reviewed by George Fish


New Books

Articles of Note


Editor's Note by Kendrick Frazier

News and Comment

  • 'Columbus Poltergeist' Figure Imprisoned
  • Tabloid Reverses SI Author's UFO Study Conclusions
  • Belmez Faces a Hoax?
  • Geller Loses Appeal in CSICOP Case

1994 CSICOP Conference Coverage:
Perception, Memory, and the Courtroom
by Tom Genoni, Jr.

Conspiracy Theories by Porter Henry

Notes of a Fringe-Watcher:
Science and Beauty
by Martin Gardner

Psychic Vibrations
The Year the World Was to End
by Robert Sheaffer

Media Watch
Paranormal and Paranoia on 'The X-Files'
by C. Eugene Emery, Jr.

Follow-Up
Is Quantum Cosmology Science?
by Richard A. Crowe

Letters to the Editor

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