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: Skeptical Inquirer magazine
Vol. 20, No. 5, September/October 1996
- Buy this back issue
- Something for Everyone at World Skeptics Congress
- CSICOP Announces New Council for Media Integrity
- Asteroids Named for CSICOP, Kurtz
- Traditional Medicine and Pseudoscience in China: A Report of the Second CSICOP Delegation Part 2
- Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia: Notes from a Mind-Control Conference
- Psychic Vibrations: Travels on the Extraterrestrial Highway
World Skeptics Congress
- Something for Everyone at World Skeptics Congress
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- Four Days with the Skeptics
- Commentary by Wendy Grossman
- CSICOP Award Winners
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- CSICOP Announces New Council for Media Integrity / Asteroids Named for CSICOP, Kurtz
Science Fiction, Skepticism, and Reality
- Shades of Meaning: Science Fiction as a New Metric
- Science fiction can, and should, be used to explore
paranormal and fringe-science issues in compelling, meaningful
ways.
Eugene R. Stewart- Scepticism and Science Fiction
- Greg Bear
- The Goulden Twig
- Hal Clement
- Science Fiction and Scientific Possibilities
- Frederik Pohl
Articles
- Traditional Medicine and
Pseudoscience in China:
A Report of the Second CSICOP Delegation - This is the second of a two-part report of a recent CSICOP
delegation to the People's Republic of China. In this article
the authors describe their participation in a symposium on
pseudoscience in China, held in Beijing, and their further
interactions with practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine
in Shanghai.
Wallace Sampson and Barry L. Beyerstein - Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia: Notes from a Mind-Control Conference
- Some therapists' lack of skepticism may make them prime
targets for racist propaganda.
Evan Harrington - We Need Science and the Humanities
- Science and technology will serve humanity well only if our
hearts and heads work in concert. Critical, rational though
and respect for the world in which we live are both
needed.
John W. White - Testing the ESP Claims of SORRAT
- The Society for Research in Rapport and Telekenesis
(SORRAT) claims to be in contact with spirit "entities" that
can devine the order of sealed decks of cards. A test was
designed using a sealed deck of ESP cards and carried out after
the protocol was approved. Here are the results.
Richard Wiseman, John Beloff, and Robert L. Morris - Strange Vibrations: An Afternoon with a New Age Psychic
- It all sounds so convincing. Or does it?
J. D. Lasica
Columns
Editor's note
News and Comment
- Noreen Reiner 'Put to the Test' -- Hollywood TV Style
- Goatsucker Hysteria
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
Isaac Newton: Alchemist and Fundamentalist
Martin Gardner
Psychic Vibrations
Travels on the Extraterrestrial Highway
Robert Sheaffer
New Books
Articles of Note
Forum
- Art, Reason, and Reality
- Jane Haddam
- What Constitutes Scientific Evidence
- Wayne R. Anderson
Letters to the Editor
Book reviews
- The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal
Edited by Gordon Stein - Reviewed by Wendy M. Grossman
- Leaps of Faith
by Nicolas Humphrey - Reviewed by Gordon Stein
- The Myth of Scientific Literacy
by Morris H. Shamos - Reviewed by Roger Klare
- Bizarre Beliefs
by Simon Hoggart and Mike Hutchinson - Reviewed by Gordon Stein
On the cover: illustration by Gerald
Fried
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