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Volume 26, Number 5, September/October 2002

Articles

A Skeptical Look at September 11th
How We Can Defeat Terrorism by Reacting to It More Rationally
At the one-year anniversary, we examine reactions to the September 11, 2001, attacks in the context of other causes of premature deaths. An objective of terrorism is to multiply damage by inducing irrational fears in the broad population. One defense is to learn to evaluate such situations more objectively.
Clark R. Chapman and Alan W. Harris

Sheldrake's Crystals
An exchange of views on morphogenesis leads to the conclusion that testing Sheldrake's ideas about crystallization is useless.
Marcel Van Genderen, Bart Koene, and Jan Willem Nienhuys

Are Melting Points Constant?
(Reply to Van Genderen, Koene, and Nienhuys)
Rupert Sheldrake

A Last Reply to Sheldrake
Marcel Van Genderen, Bart Koene, and Jan Willem Nienhuys

Teaching Skepticism via the CRITIC Acronym and the Skeptical Inquirer
The CRITIC acronym provides neophyte skeptical students with an easy-to-remember, step-by-step format for applied critical thinking. Practice applying this simple method of critical analysis can include writing CRITIC reports on the feature articles found in the Skeptical Inquirer.
Wayne R. Bartz

Skepticism Under the Big Sky
If you offer it, they will come! Since 1996, four intrepid prairie skeptics have annually pitted approximately a quarter century of graduate study in science, medicine, and education against the claims, cunning, and innocent convictions of local truth seekers.
Mike Schwinden, Dave Engbrecht, John Mercer, and Mark Peterson

Why Was The X-Files So Appealing?
The success of The X-Files was in large part due to its expression of a confluence of three powerful, ancient, and legend-like beliefs-paranormalism, conspiratorial thinking, and populism.
Erich Goode

Conference Report

Fourth World Skeptics Conference in Burbank a Lively Foment of Ideas
Scams, intelligent design, urban legends, fringe psychotherapies get critical attention
Kendrick Frazier and Benjamin Radford

Special Report

Circular Reasoning: The 'Mystery' of Crop Circles and Their 'Orbs' of Light
Joe Nickell

Columns

EDITOR'S NOTE: One Year After September 4

News and Comment

  • 'Miraculous' Image of Guadalupe Painted
  • 'ESP Test' Fools UK's Daily Mirror
  • APS Statement Knocks Perpetual Motion, 'Free Energy' Claims
  • Geoarchaeology: Ancients Right about Delphi Earth Gases

Investigative Files
Winchester Mystery House: Fact vs. Fancy
Joe Nickell

Notes on a Strange World
Ica Stones: Yabba-Dabba-Do!
Massimo Polidoro

Psychic Vibrations
Where Have You Gone, Commander Quasgaa?
Robert Sheaffer

New Books

Science Best Sellers

Forum

  • Oh Brother Luke, Where Art Thou?
    Ken Parejko
  • American Schools: How They Measure Up
    Donna M. Brown
  • Déjà Vu: Descartes All Over Again
    George Englebretsen

Follow-Up
After-Death Communications: A Misleading Critique
Gary E. Schwartz

Letters to the Editor

Book Reviews

Junk Science Judo Junk Science Judo
By Steven J. Milloy
Terence Hines
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No Gun Ri - A Military History of the Korean War Incident
By Robert L. Bateman
Robert Skole
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The Natural Physician's Healing Therapies
By Mark Stengler
Bertram Rothschild
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