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: Skeptical Inquirer magazine
Vol. 19, No. 5, September/October 1995
Articles
- The Paradox Of Knowledge
Lee Loevinger - As knowledge about nature expands, so does ignorance, and
ignorance may increase more than its related knowledge.
- Consciousness as a Valid Subject for Scientific
Investigation
Huntley Ingalls - Recent advances in brain research have stimulated widespread
interest throughout the scientific community in the nature of
consciousness, lending new respectability to the subject.
- School Daze: A Critical Review Of `African-American
Baseline Essays'
Walter F. Rowe - These essays are riddled with pseudoscience and pseudohistory.
They should not be used for the training of teachers or the
teaching of students.
- Mystical Medical
Alternativism
Jack Raso - Hundreds of mystical or supernaturalistic health treatment
methods have been advanced in recent decades. Here are 31 of
them.
- China, Chi, and Chicanery
Peter Huston - Traditional Chinese medicine is thousands of years old and has literally more than a billion satisfied customers. Many of its treatments and teachings are based on the effects of Chi, a mystical form of bio-energy.
Book Reviews
- Beyond Psychology: Letters and Journals by Wilhelm
Reich
edited by Mary Boyd Higgins - Reviewed by Henry H. Bauer
- Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: The Conference at
M.I.T.
by C. D. B. BryanAlien Discussions: Proceedings of MIT Abduction Conference
edited by Andrea Pritchard, et al. - Reviewed by Gordon Stein
- What to Do About Your Brain Injured Child
by Glenn Doman - Reviewed by Terence Hines
- Monsters of the Sea
by Richard Ellis - Reviewed by Gordon Stein
- License to Steal
by Dennis Marlock and John Dowling - Reviewed by Peter Huston
New Books
Articles Of Note
Editor's Note
News And Comment
- Harvard Investigates John Mack
- APS on Power Lines and Cancer
- 'Miraculous' Cure
- Weeping Madonna in Italy
- Ozark UFO Convention
- Court on Repressed Memory
- New Eye on Nature: Gravity Lensing
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
Fuzzy LogicMartin Gardner
Psychic Vibrations
Scientology vs. Internet
Robert Sheaffer
Media Watch
Telephone Psychics: Friends or Phonies?C. Eugene Emery, Jr.
Forum
Science Without AdjectivesRalph Estling
Letters to the Editor
ON THE COVER: Illustration by Ron Miller
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