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: Skeptical Inquirer magazine
Vol. 20, No. 6, November/December 1996
- Buy this back issue
- That's Entertainment! TV's UFO Coverup
- Scientific Consensus and Expert Testimony: Lessons from the Judas Priest Trial
- Investigative Files: Not-So-Spontaneous Human Combustion
Articles
A Strategy for Saving ScienceTo preserve our four-hundred-year commitment to a scientific worldview, we need our educated people to incorporate scientific thinking-the blend of curiosity and skepticism, the habit of critical questioning-into their very nature. Pioneering new teaching styles in science and math, carried out in cooperation with the liberal arts, can help achieve that.
Leon M. Lederman
That's Entertainment! TV's UFO Coverup
Network television documentaries about UFOs have willfully
ignored evidence that contradicts the pro-aliens theme.
Philip J. Klass
Scientific Consensus and
Expert Testimony: Lessons from the Judas Priest
Trial
Can a subliminal message induce someone to commit suicide? This
was the central question at the Judas Priest trial.
Timothy E. Moore
The Dogon People Revisited
The 1970s claim that the Dogon tribespeople of Africa had
extraordinary astronomical knowledge has been revived,
amplified, and widely disseminated in recent years. Here is a
new examination and evaluation.
Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano
Cosmic Menagerie: Some Underpublicized Truths about the
Constellations
The stars in our night sky are only a few thousand dots of
light, but since ancient times people have been mentally
connecting the dots to create a cosmic zoo. But don't look to
them to tell you about your personal life or fortune.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Columns
Editor's note
News and Comment
- The 'Roswell Fragment'
- Penthouse 'Autopsy'
- Where Are the Antiscience Attitudes?
- 'Evolution' Loses Out in New Mexico Science Standards
- 'Klass County' UFO Abductions
- Some Double-Blind Experiments May Not Be So Blind After All
- The New Medicine Goes to Congress
- That's Astronomy, Not Astrology
- In Memoriam: Gordon Stein
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
Physicist Alan Sokal's Hilarious Hoax
Martin Gardner
Investigative Files
Not-So-Spontaneous Human Combustion
Joe Nickell
Media Watch
CD-ROM Encyclopedias: How Does Their Coverage of Pseudoscience
Topics Rate?
C. Eugene Emery, Jr.
New Books
Articles of Note
Forum
Beyond the Rational
Gloria J. Leitner
Extraterrestrial Unintelligence?
Alta Walker
Letters to the editor
Book Reviews
The Night Is Largeby Martin Gardner
Reviewed by Michael Dirda
Jeopardy in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children's Testimony
by Stephen J. Ceci and Maggie Bruck
Reviewed by Lloyd Stires
The Tenth Insight
by James Redfield
Reviewed by Joseph P. Szimhart
Test Your Psychic Powers: Find out the Truth for Yourself
by Susan Blackmore and Adam Hart-Davis
Reviewed by Christopher C. French
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