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Volume 31, Number 5
September / October 2007

ARTICLES

AIDS Denialism vs. Science

NICOLI NATTRASS

Storm World

Hurricanes, Warming, and Scientific Uncertainty

CHRIS MOONEY

Is This Article on Conspiracies Part of a Conspiracy?

CHRIS VOLKAY

Fix Your Ruptured Disk without Surgery?

The Truth behind the Ads

HARRIET A. HALL

How to Survive the Apocalypse

STEPHEN T. ASMA

SPECIAL REPORT

The Loch Ness Critter

JOE NICKELL

Santa Fe ‘Courthouse Ghost’ Mystery Solved

BENJAMIN RADFORD

Mythic Creatures, Bigger than Life

EDWARD SUMMER

Columns

Editor's Note

AIDS Denialism and Science

News and Comment

Gallup Polls Show Splits on Evolution (Dis)Belief by Politics, Religion
One Small Victory in Canada in Support of Evolution
CFI Calls for Protecting Science and Research Findings from Political Interference
Carroll, Forrest, Kroto Elected CSI Fellows; Mooney, Nisbet Named Consultants
Quack Attacker Returns after Legal Threat
Evolution in the Limelight
Skeptical Community Laments Loss of Barry Beyerstein, Psychologist, CSI Council Member
CSI’s Robert P. Balles Award Goes to Guardian ‘Bad Science’ Columnist Ben Goldacre
Quoteworthy
Andrew Fraknoi Honored for Excellence in Astronomy Teaching

INVESTIGATIVE FILES

‘John of God’: Healings by Entities?

JOE NICKELL

THINKING ABOUT SCIENCE

The Trouble with Memetics

MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI

NOTES ON A STRANGE WORLD

The Man Who Fooled Edison . . . but Not Houdini

MASSIMO POLIDORO

PSYCHIC VIBRATIONS

Betty Hill’s Last Hurrah
A Secret UFO Symposium in New Hampshire

ROBERT SHEAFFER

THE SKEPTICAL INQUIREE

The (Non)Mysterious Orbs

BENJAMIN RADFORD

NEW BOOKS

FORUM

This Is the Forum Column That Goes Like This

RALPH ESTLING

FOLLOW-UP

Global Warming: Critical Reaction, Support, and Author Response

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

BOOK REVIEWS

Paranormal Claims: A Critical Analysis

By Bryan Farha

ANGELO STAGNARO

War of the Words: The True but Strange Story of the Gulf Breeze UFO

By Craig R. Myers