SKEPTICAL BRIEFS COMPLETE INDEX

Volume 1, Number 1 (1991)–Volume 16, Number 4 (2006)

A

Africa

• Benny Hinn Healing Crusade Ends in Controversy (Igwe) 16(3)
  See also Faith healing

Agate, Joanne

• A Day at the Paranormal Fair 16(4)
• The Reincarnation Lecture 15(4)

Alcock, James

• The Appeal of Alternative Medicine, Part 1 16(3)
• Cause and Meaning 15(1)
• The Dying of the Light 15(2)
• Dying and Supernatural Experience 15(4)
• Magical Thinking 14(3)
• Potholes in Memory Lane 14(4)
• Psychology and Ethics 16(2)
• Thinking Critically 15(3)

Aliens. See UFOs and aliens

Alternative medicine

• Alternative Medicine Has a Lot of Soul (Raso) 7(4)
• The Appeal of Alternative Medicine, Part 1 (Alcock) 16(3)
• Come Waste Some Time in the Looniverse! (Verstappen) 11(1)
• Daily Dose (Atkinson) 6(4)
• Diagnosing the “Medical Intuitives” (Nickell) 12(2)
• The Energy Fields of Life (Stenger) 8(2)
• Freedom and License (Jones) 10(2)
• Human Gamma Rays (Stenger) 9(4)
• Medical Intuitives: Do Your Chakras Need a Checkup? (Baker) 8(4)
• Qi=mc?? (Stenger) 15(2)
• The Supernatural and Paranormal in Peru (Paz y Miño) 9(4)
• To Please or Not to Please (Jones) 13(1)
• A Touching Story (Taylor) 8(4)
  See also Distant healing

Animal nature

• Will Prozac Put Purr into a Pussycat? (Baker) 12(3)

Animal rights

• A Modest Proposal (Baker) 9(1)

Argentina

• The Enemy Within: Chronology of an Anti-Skepticism Case in Argentina (Borgo) 13(1)
• Skepticism in Argentina: Life and Death and Magical Thinking (Borgo) 12(1)

Astrology

• Harried by “Hellions” in Taiwan (Vierra) 7(1)
• Vested Interests 1, Scientific Integrity 0 (Kelly) 10(1)
• You Don’t Have to Cheat to Get It Wrong! (Steiner) 9(2)

Astronomy

• Wishing Upon a Star (Jones) 11(4)

Atkinson, John

• Daily Dose 6(4)

Atlantis

• Atlantis: No Way, No How, No Where (Christopher) 11(3)
• A New Look at Disney’s Atlantis (Beeston) 12(1)

Aum Shinrikyo

• Aum Shinrikyo Incidents and Their Influence on the Media (Minakami) 11(2)

B

Baker, Robert

• After Many a Summer . . . 9(2)
• An Alien Taxonomy 7(2)
• Art Bell’s Quickening Is Sickening 7(4)
• Behold: A New Prophet-Savior Is Born! 7(1)
• The Case of the Missing Poltergeist 10(2)
• Explaining the Unexplained: Is Jerry Clark a Closet Skeptic? 5(2)
• Far Out Books of the Month Club 5(1)
• From Advocacy to Madness: A Short and Slippery Slope 8(3)
• On Hypnosis 12(1)
• Improving Science Literacy 6(1)
• Medical Intuitives: Do Your Chakras Need a Checkup? 8(4)
• A Modest Proposal 9(1)
• Prayer Wars (Baker) 7(3)
• Scientific Remote Viewing 6(2)
• Will Prozac Put Purr Into a Pussycat? 12(3)
• The World’s Greatest Paranoid? 8(2)
• The Z-Files 6(3)

Bali

• The Fire Dance of Bali (Herreid) 9(2)

Bangs sisters

• Spirit Painting Part II: The Bangs Sisters (Nickell) 10(2)

Barrieau, Larry

• Ouija in the Classroom 7(3)

Beeston, Rob

• A New Look at Disney’s Atlantis 12(1)

Belgium

• A Day at the Paranormal Fair (Agate) 16(4)
• The Early Days of Skeptic Activity in Belgium (Dommanget) 9(1)
• Psychics and Missing Children in Belgium (Trachet) 7(1)
• The Reincarnation Lecture (Agate) 15(4)

Beliefs and opinions

• Speaking Out (Jones) 16(1) (correction in 16[2])
• What Do You Think? (Jones) 9(2)

Bell, Art

• Art Bell’s Quickening Is Sickening (Baker) 7(4)

Beyerstein, Barry

• The Disappearing Writing Guru, Sweetwater, and Chicken McNugget: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before 14(1)
• Stop the Millennium; I Want to Get Off! 9(3)

Big Bang. See Cosmology

Bigfoot

• The Bigfoot Legend Lives 16(1)
• Bigfoot Proponent Comes to the End of the Bigfoot Trail (Dennett) 13(2)
• Experiments Cast Doubt on Bigfoot “Evidence” (Dennett) 16(3)
• Scenes From a Bigfoot Conference (Boston) 13(4)

Billnitzer, Philip

• Wimpy Chupacabra Not Good for Creature’s Legend 14(4)

Bioenergetic field

• The Energy Fields of Life (Stenger) 8(2)

Bodily Damage Phenomena

• Taking a Stab at a Paranormal Claim (Posner) 5(2)
• Body Worlds (Jones) 12(2)

Boese, Alex

• Top Ten Hoaxes of 2004 15(1)

Borgo, Alejandro J.

• The Enemy Within: Chronology of an Anti-Skepticism Case in Argentina 13(1)
• Skepticism in Argentina: Life and Death and Magical Thinking 12(1)

Boslough, Mark

• Creationism Lesson: NOT! 6(2)

Boston, Rob

• Scenes From a Bigfoot Conference 13(4)

Brain science

• Pictures in Your Head (Jones) 16(4)

Brazil

• Update from Brazil (Gutman) 6(4)

Buckner, Ed

• Theoretically . . . 15(1)

Burda, Gwen

• Belief in UFOs Proves Not So “Harmless” 7(1)

Busher, Bill

• A Phantom Menace? 15(2)

C

Campbell brothers

• Spirit Painting, Part I: The Campbell Brothers (Nickell) 10(1)

Cape May, N.J.

• Haunted Cape May (Hill) 12(3)

Carnivals and sideshows

• Sideshow! Carnival Oddities and Illusions Provide Lessons for Skeptics (Nickell) 9(4)

Carpenter, Richard

• Research Request: Teleology and Anthropomorphism 6(3)

Castro, Robert

• A Physiological Reason Why Superman Behaves Like a Boy Scout 16(2)

Cayce, Edgar

• Diagnosing the “Medical Intuitives” (Nickell) 12(2)

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

• Remotely Viewed? The Charlie Jordan Case (Nickell) 11(1)

Chesworth, Amanda

• Educating Our Future: The Young Skeptics Program 12(1)

Chile

• Paranormal Phenomena in Chile (Zuniga Contreras) 10(2)

China

• China’s Scientific Community Denounces Superstition and Pseudoscience (Shen) 7(3)
• Chinese Super Powers without Tears (Huston) 5(4)
• Crazy about Qigong (Mainfort) 11(2)
• Paranormal in China (Wu) 5(1)
• Qigong Politics of Nanjing University (Mainfort) 8(3)
• The Roots of Qi (Mainfort) 10(1)
• Sima Nan: Fighting Qigong Pseudoscience in China (Mainfort) 9(1)
• Sima Nan Battles Qigong Master Hu Wanlin in China (Mainfort) 10(3)
  See also Taiwan

Christianity

• Are Christianity and Darwinism Compatible? (Stenger) 12(2)
• Can Contamination Save the Shroud of Turin? (Pickett) 6(2)
• The Sacred Cloth of Oviedo (Nickell) 11(3)
• The Shroud: From Truth to Fantasy (Nickell) 7(4)
• The Trouble with Easter (Jones) 14(1)
• Wishing Upon a Star (Jones) 11(4)
  See also Miracles

Christopher, Kevin

• Aliens Are from Mars, Solved Mysteries from Venus 11(1)
• Atlantis: No Way, No How, No Where 11(3)
• CSICOP Celebrates 25th Anniversary 11(2)
• CSICOP Field Investigations: 2002 Crop Circle Experiments 12(3)
• L’Effroyable Auteur 12(2)
• Misplaced Awe: How the Shuttle Disaster Highlights the Lack of Respect for Science and Technology 13(1)
• 1950s Correspondence Shows Poor Skepticism Among the Media 11(4)
• 2002: The Year of the Conspiracy Crank 12(4)
• New and Improved Skeptiseum Debuts in September 13(3)
• Skeptiseum “Ghost and Spirit” Exhibit 14(3)

Churchill, Ward

• The Churchill Case (Stenger) 16(3)

Clairvoyance

• The Parallel Delusion of ESP and Cold Fusion (Stenger) 9(3)
• Psychics and Missing Children in Belgium (Trachet) 7(1)
• Remotely Viewed? The Charlie Jordan Case (Nickell) 11(1)
• Springer Psychic: A Study in “Clairvoyance” (Nickell) 9(3)
• You Don’t Have to Cheat to Get It Wrong (Steiner) 9(2)

Clark, Jerry

• Explaining the Unexplained: Is Jerry Clark a Closet Skeptic? (Baker) 5(2)

Cognitive illusions

• Cognitive Illusions (Jones) 9(1)

Cold fusion

• The Parallel Delusions of ESP and Cold Fusion (Stenger) 9(3)

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)

• CSICOP Celebrates 25th Anniversary (Christopher and Radford) 11(2)
• CSICOP in the Rockies (Greben) 5(2)
• CSICOP Takes on TV Conglomerates with “Media Stock Fund” (Nisbet) 7(2)
• Reflections on CSICOP at Twenty (Kral) 6(3)
• World Skeptics Congress Draws Over 1200 Participants (Flynn and Gorski) 6(2)
• CSICOP and PhACT Attend Philadelphia Science Teachers Weekend (Strickland, Becky, et al.) 13(2)

Conspiracy theories

• L’Effroyable Auteur (Christopher) 12(2)
• 2002: The Year of the Conspiracy Crank (Christopher) 12(4)
• Testing Belief in Conspiracy Theories (Scheinberg) 6(4)
• The World’s Greatest Paranoid? (Baker) 8(2)

Cosmology

• Einstein’s Blunder (Stenger) 9(1)
• How to Make 6 Days Last 13 Billion Years (Stenger) 8(4)
• When Did It All Begin? Or Did It? (Stenger) 10(1)

Counseling

• Medicine after Death (Jones) 6(2)

Creationism

• Creationism Lesson: NOT! (Boslough) 6(2)
• Darwinism and the Age of Earth (Stenger) 13(2)
• Decoding the Message of DNA (Morrock) 15(3)
• The Evolution of Creationism (Stenger) 14(2)
• Science or Faith, Take Your Choice (Taylor) 10(2)
  See also Intelligent design theory

Creature sightings

• How Cryptozoologists Created a Monster (Radford) 13(3)
• How I Became a True Believer All Over Again (McQuitty) 9(1)
• The Lake George Monster Hoax (Nickell) 14(4)
• Memphre: Lake Memphremagog’s Monster (Nickell) 14(2)
• Mothman Revisited: Investigating the Site (Nickell) 12(4)
• Nessie Hoax Redux (Nickell) 6(1)
• Nessie Hoax Redux—II (Nickell) 6(3)
• The Skeptic-raping Demon of Zanzibar (Nickell) 5(4)
• U-Haul Moves into the Paranormal (Radford) 11(4)
• Wimpy Chupacabra Not Good for Creature’s Legend (Billnitzer) 14(4)
  See also Bigfoot; Cryptozoology

Crop circles

• Crop Circle Capers (Nickell) 14(1)
• CSICOP Field Investigations: 2002 Crop Circle Experiments (Christopher) 12(3)
• Experts Declare Crop Circles Genuine (Masta) 13(4) and 14(2)
• Levengood’s Crop-Circle Plant Research (Nickell) 6(2)
• Pasture Landings: a New Agrarian Menace (Masta) 14(3)

Cryptozoology

• The Literature of Cryptozoology (Stein) 5(1)
• Bigfoot Proponent Comes to the End of the Bigfoot Trail (Dennett) 13(2)
• How Cryptozoologists Created a Monster (Radford) 13(3)

Cults

• Aum Shinrikyo Incidents and Their Influence on the Media (Minakami) 11(2)
• Imported Paranormal Beliefs in Taiwan (Vierra) 7(2)

Curacao

• Come Waste Some Time in the Looniverse! (Verstappen) 11(1)

D

Dates

• Dating (Jones) 14(3)

Dead persons

• Body Worlds (Jones) 12(2)
• The Dying of the Light (Alcock) 15(2)
• Dying and Supernatural Experience (Alcock) 15(4)
  See also Hauntings; Resurrection; Spiritualism

Dennett, Michael R.

• The Bigfoot Legend Lives 16(1)
• Bigfoot Proponent Comes to the End of the Bigfoot Trail 13(2)
• Experiments Cast Doubt on Bigfoot “Evidence” 16(3)

Distant healing

• Return from the Dead (Nickell) 15(2)
• The Science of Prayer (Stenger) 11(4)
• The Tragic Story of Elisabeth Targ (Stenger) 13(1)
• A Magical Death? (Stevens) 13(3)

Djemaa el-Fna, Morocco

• Walking Among the Dead (Radford) 14(1)

Doloff, Steven

• “What’s Your Sign”? 13(2)

Dommanget, J.

• The Early Days of Skeptic Activity in Belgium (Dommanget) 9(1)

Doyle, Arthur Conan

• Conan Doyle’s Revenge (Summer) 5(4)

Dragons

• How I Became a True Believer All Over Again (McQuitty) 9(1)

E

Education

• Body Worlds (Jones) 12(2)
• Creationism Lesson: NOT! (Boslough) 6(2)
• Educating Our Future: The Young Skeptics Program (Chesworth) 12(1)
• High School Confidential (Madigan) 7(1)
• Improving Science Literacy (Baker) 6(1)
• A New Look at Disney’s Atlantis (Beeston) 12(1)
• Ouija in the Classroom (Barrieau) 7(3)
• Research Request: Teleology and Anthropomorphism (Carpenter) 6(3)
• Science or Faith, Take Your Choice (Taylor) 10(2)
• Theoretically . . . (Buckner) 15(1)
• U-Haul Moves into the Paranormal (Radford) 11(4)
• Who Let the Dogmatism Out? (Stenger) 12(1)

Electromagnetic fields (EMF)

• EMFs Again (Rothman) 5(4)

Emotion

• The Humanity of Mr. Spock (Jones) 15(3)

Energy

• A Catalog of Capers and Grails (Rothman) 7(2)
• The Energy Fields of Life (Stenger) 8(2)
• Magnets and Motion (Rothman) 6(2)
• More Free Energy and Hot Air (Rothman) 7(3)
• The Phantom of Free Energy (Stenger) 9(2)
• Sci-Fi Art, the Levitron, and Collapsing Atoms (Rothman) 7(4)

Entropy

• Has the Second Law Been Falsified? (Stenger) 12(3)

ESP. See Clairvoyance

Ethics

• Psychology and Ethics (Alcock) 16(2)

Eugenics

• Transgressing the Boundaries (Jones) 11(3)

Evolution

• Are Christianity and Darwinism Compatible? (Stenger) 12(2)
• Science or Faith, Take Your Choice (Taylor) 10(2)

Experimentation

• Higgs and Significance (Stenger) 11(1)
• How Do They Do That? (Jones) 6(4)
• Human Gamma Rays (Stenger) 9(4)
• The Mechanics of Insight (Jones) 6(1)
• Meta-Analysis and the Filedrawer Effect (Stenger) 12(4)
• Ouija in the Classroom (Barrieau) 7(3)
• Psychic Powers: Simple Tests for Use by Skeptics (Shotwell) 10(3)
• To Please or Not to Please (Jones) 13(1)

Exploration

• Zheng He in the Americas and Other Unlikely Tales of Exploration and Discovery (Newbrook) 14(3)

F

Fagin, Max

• Psychic vs. Skeptical Predictions (Fagan) 16(2)

Faith healing

• Benny Hinn Healing Crusade Ends in Controversy (Igwe) 16(3)
• Peter Popoff’s “Gift of Knowledge” (Nickell) 13(2)

Fanaticism

• From Advocacy to Madness: A Short and Slippery Slope (Baker) 8(3)

Fatalism

• Que Sera, Sera (Jones) 6(3)

Feng shui and feng che

• Beyond Feng Shui (Queenan) 12(4)
• Harried by “Hellions” in Taiwan (Vierra) 7(1)

Feynman, R. P.

• Personal Observations on the Reliability of the Shuttle 13(1)

Film

• Bigfoot Buffs Bash Film (Orange) 15(2)
• Conan Doyle’s Revenge (Summer) 5(4)
• De-ghosting The Amityville Horror (Radford) 15(1)
• Fortunetelling in Film: The Final Destination Movies (Radford) 13(1)
• A New Look at Disney’s Atlantis (Beeston) 12(1)
• Peering Through the Static of White Noise (Gaeddert) 15(1)
• The Privileged Planet: A New Wedge in the Discovery Arsenal of Stealth Weapons (Stenger) 15(3)
• Scooby-Doo, How Could You? (Madigan) 8(4)
  See also Photography

Fire eating and breathing

• Human Blowtorch (Nickell) 10(4)

Firewalking

• CSICOP Firewalk Teaches the Public about Physics (Radford) 10(4)
• The Fire Dance of Bali (Herreid) 9(2)
• Putting Feet to the Fire and a Record to the Test (Willey) 14(1)

Flynn, Tom

• The Curse of Clarity 5(1)
• A Matter of Perspective 5(2)
• A Matter of Perspective, Part 2 5(4)
• World Skeptics Congress Draws Over 1200 Participants 6(2)

Fogg, Larry

• Prescription: A Small Dose of Skepticism Daily 15(4)
• Pyramid Power . . . Again! 13(2)

Folk logic

• On Proving a Negative (Jones) 14(4)

Fortune-telling

• Buffalo Psychic Y2K Predictions Go Bust (Radford) 10(4)
• A Day at the Paranormal Fair (Agate) 16(4)
• Fortunetelling in Film: The Final Destination Movies (Radford) 13(1)
• The Gypsies’ “Great Trick” (Nickell) 9(1)

France

• L’Effroyable Auteur (Christopher) 12(2)

Friday the 13th

• A Brief History of Friday the 13th (Nickell) 7(2)

G

Gaeddert, John

• Peering Through the Static of White Noise 15(1)
• Reel or Real? The Truth Behind Two Hollywood Ghost Stories (Radford and Gaeddert) 15(1)

Germany

• Legend of the White Lady (Nickell) 13(1)

Ghosts. See Hauntings

Glickman, Bob

• Talking about PhACT 6(2)

Gorski, Tim

• World Skeptics Congress Draws Over 1200 Participants 6(2)

Greben, Becky

• CSICOP in the Rockies 5(2)

Greece (ancient)

• The Book (Jones) 9(4)

Grey, William

• When Worldviews Collide 5(2)

Gutman, Luis

• Update from Brazil 6(4)

Gypsies

• The Gypsies’ “Great Trick” (Nickell) 9(1)

H

Halloween

• Alchemists’ Gold and Hallowe’en “Ghosts” (Trotti) 5(2)

Hauntings

• Alchemists’ Gold and Hallowe’en “Ghosts” (Trotti) 5(2)
• The Case of the Missing Poltergeist (Baker) 10(2)
• Haunted Cape May (Hill) 12(3)
• Headless Ghosts I Have Known (Nickell) 16(4)
• The Haunted Tape Recorder (Nickell) 5(2)
• Italy’s Graveyard “Ghost” Photo (Nickell) 8(2)
• Legend of the White Lady (Nickell) 13(1)
• Mystique of the Octagon Houses (Nickell) 12(1)
• Phantom Hitchhikers: Thumb Mystery! (Nickell) 15(1)
• Secrets of the Voodoo Tomb (Nickell) 11(4)
• The Visit (Weinstein) 11(2)
• “Visitations”: After-Death Contacts (Nickell) 12(3)
  See also Spiritualism

Herreid, Clyde Freeman

• Advice for Skeptics: A Television Reporter Speaks 7(4)
• The Fire Dance of Bali 9(2)

Hill, Sharon

• Haunted Cape May 12(3)

Hoaxes

• The Lake George Monster Hoax (Nickell) 14(4)
• Postmortem on “Alien Autopsy” (Nickell) 16(2)
• Special Delivery: Nigerian Woman Gives Birth to Animals (Igwe) 14(4)
• Top Ten Hoaxes of 2004 (Boese) 15(1)

Human nature

• Cause and Meaning (Alcock) 15(1)
• Magical Thinking (Alcock) 14(3)

Human origins

• NBC’s “Origins” Show (Thomas) 6(1)
  See also Creationism; Evolution

Hunt, Christopher J.

• Describing the Process Scientific 16(1)

Humphrey, Paul

• The Lost Meteorological Blimp 6(4)

Huston, Peter

• Chinese Super Powers without Tears 5(4)

Hyman, Ray

• Marcus-Pocus 7(1)

Hypnosis

• On Hypnosis (Baker) 12(1)

I

Igwe, Leo

• Benny Hinn Healing Crusade Ends in Controversy 16(3)
• The Kenyan “Miracle Babies” Scandal 15(3)
• The Need for Skepticism in Nigeria 11(3)
• Ritual Killing and Pseudoscience in Nigeria 14(2)
• Special Delivery: Nigerian Woman Gives Birth to Animals 14(4)
• A Tale of Lies, Deceit, and Fraud 12(4)
• Witchkillings in Nigeria 13(2)

Image of Guadalupe

• “Miraculous” Image of Guadalupe (Nickell) 12(2)

Immortality

• After Many a Summer . . . (Baker) 9(2)

India

• Investigating Witchcraft and Sorcery in Rangareddi District, India (Vijayam) 12(2)
• Maharashtra’s Superstition Eradication Committee (Naanawaty and Khlare) 7(2)
• A Walk on the Dark Side (Jones) 11(2)

Information theory

• The Emperor’s New Designer Clothes (Stenger) 10(4)

Intellectuals

• Transgressing the Boundaries (Jones) 11(3)
• Iquination (Jones) 13(3)

Intelligent-design theory

• The Emperor’s New Designer Clothes (Stenger) 10(4)
• Monkey Business (Jones) 16(3)
• Supernatural Science (Stenger) 16(1)
• Who Let the Dogmatism Out? (Stenger) 12(1)

Internet

• On the Internet (Rothman) 6(3)
• Pseudoscience on the Internet (Rothman) 6(4)

Islam

• Science Allah Carte (Jones) 12(1)

Israel

• Israel: Where the Paranormal Is Normal (Lee) 6(2)

Italy

• Skepticism in Italy (Polidoro) 6(1)

J

James, St.

• Relics of the Headless Saint (Nickell) 11(2)

Japan

• Aum Shinrikyo Incidents and Their Influence on the Media (Minakami) 11(2)

Jisonna, Louis J., Jr.

• Workshop on 50 Years of UFO Myth 7(4)

Jones, Lewis

• Absence of Mind 8(2)
• The Bard Code 7(4)
• Body Worlds 12(2)
• The Book 9(4)
• Can You Prove It? 7(2)
• Clusters 14(2)
• Cognitive Illusions 9(1)
• Dating 14(3)
• The Discoverie of Reginald Scott 10(1)
• The Food of Love? 12(3)
• Freedom and License 10(2)
• The God of Isaac 5(4)
• How Do They Do That? 6(4)
• The Humanity of Mr. Spock 15(3)
• Ideas 15(4)
• Iquination 13(3)
• Language and Sex 10(2)
• A Little Help from Our Friends 13(2)
• Logla Takna Mi 5(2)
• The Mechanics of Insight 6(1)
• Medicine After Death 6(2)
• Miracles for Sale 7(1)
• Monkey Business 16(3)
• Neurolinguistic Programming 11(1)
• On Proving a Negative 14(4)
• Pictures in Your Head 16(4)
• The Plague of the Sea 15(2)
• Porkies (13)4
• Que Sera, Sera 6(3)
• Randomness 15(1)
• Risk Factor 5(1)
• Science Allah Carte 12(1)
• Sincerity: An Overrated Virtue 7(3)
• Speaking Out 16(1) (correction in 16[2])
• Spoilsports? 8(3)
• To Please or Not to Please 13(1)
• Transgressing the Boundaries 11(3)
• The Trouble with Easter 14(1)
• A Walk on the Dark Side 11(2)
• Who Am I Speaking To? 12(4)
• What Do You Mean? 9(3)
• What Do You Think? 9(2)
• Wishing Upon a Star 11(4)
• Word’s Worth 8(4)

Justice system

• Burden of Proof (Posner) 5(4)

K

Kang, Gun-Il

• A Korean Skeptic’s Report: New Ager-Occupied Territory 10(1)

Kelly, I.W.

• Vested Interests 1, Scientific Integrity 0 10(1)

Khlare, Tanaji

• Maharashtra’s Superstition Eradication Committee 7(2)

Korea

• A Korean Skeptic’s Report: New Ager-Occupied Territory (Kang) 10(1)

Kral, E.A.

• Reflections on CSICOP at Twenty 6(3)

Kurtz, Paul

• How Far Can Critical Thinking Be Extended? 11(3)
• The New Skepticism: A Statement of Principles 12(1)
• The New Skepticism: A Worldwide Movement 8(2)

L

Language

• Good or Bad, Round or Spiky? (Newbrook) 15(4)
• Language and Sex (Jones) 10(3)
• Logla Takna Mi (Jones) 5(2)
• Reverse Speech (Newbrook) 15(2)
• Sanskrit and Pseudoscience (Newbrook) 11(4)
• What Do You Mean? (Jones) 9(3)
• Word’s Worth (Jones) 8(4)

Laveau, Marie

• Secrets of the Voodoo Tomb (Nickell) 11(4)

Lee, Eric

• Israel: Where the Paranormal Is Normal 6(2)

Leonard, Patrick

• Midnight Adventure in the Graveyard 10(4)
• Two Psychics and the Holy Table: Adventures in Cuckoo Correspondence 10(2)

Levitron

• Sci-Fi Art, the Levitron, and Collapsing Atoms (Rothman) 7(4)

Lipps, Jere H.

• Science, A Candle in the Dark 9(3)

Loch Ness Monster

• Nessie Hoax Redux (Nickell) 6(1)
• Nessie Hoax Redux—II (Nickell) 6(3)

Logic

• Can You Prove It? (Jones) 7(2)

Loglan language

• Logla Takna Mi (Jones) 5(2)

Lohr, Jeffrey

• Can Eye Movements Cure Mental Ailments? 7(1)

M

Madigan, Tim

• High School Confidential 7(1)
• Scooby-Doo, How Could You? 8(4)

Magic

• Chinese Super Powers without Tears (Huston) 5(4)
• Marcus-Pocus (Hyman) 7(1)

Magnetic fields

• Magnets and Motion (Rothman) 6(2)
• Psychics, Physics, and Magnets (Rothman) 6(1)

Mainfort, Donald

• Crazy about Qigong 11(2)
• Qigong Politics of Nanjing University 8(3)
• The Roots of Qi 10(1)
• Sima Nan: Fighting Qigong Pseudoscience in China 9(1)
• Sima Nan Battles Qigong Master Hu Wanlin in China 10(3)

Mann, Zane B.

• Mea Culpa, the Admission of a Hoax 8(4)

Masta, Robert

• Experts Declare Crop Circles Genuine 13(4)and 14(2)
• Pasture Landings: a New Agrarian Menace 14(3)

Matteson, Antoinette

• Diagnosing the “Medical Intuitives” (Nickell) 12(2)

McLeod, Ken

• I Can Smell Onions! 16(3)

McCutcheon, Lynn

• Beethoven’s Babies: Much ado About Nothing? 8(4)
• Iridology Works Well on the Planet Irisinius 6(2)

McQuitty, Roxine

• How I Became a True Believer All Over Again 9(1)

Mechler, Gary

• Workshop on 50 Years of UFO Myth 7(4)

Media

• 1950s Correspondence Shows Poor Skepticism Among the Media (Christopher) 11(4)
• Advice for Skeptics: A Television Reporter Speaks (Herreid) 7(4)
• Appearing on TV? Be Prepared! (Okulewicz) 5(1)
• Aum Shinrikyo Incidents and Their Influence on the Media (Minakami) 11(2)
• Belief in UFOs Proves Not So Harmless (Burda) 7(1)
• Big Biased Stories ’bout the Little Neutral One (Stenger) 8(3)
• CSICOP Takes on TV Conglomerates with “Media Stock Fund” (Nisbet) 7(2)
• Daily Dose (Atkinson) 6(4)
• Far Out Books of the Month Club (Baker) 5(1)
• NBC’s “Origins” Show (Thomas) 6(1)
• A Physiological Reason Why Superman Behaves Like a Boy Scout (Castro) 16(2)
• Scientific Illiteracy in the Press (Rothman) 5(1)
• S.O.P. at CNN (Posner) 8(3) Stranger Danger: How Real Is It? (Radford) 16(2)
• Supernatural on the Streets: The Paranormal in Toronto Street News (Radford) 11(1)
• A Touching Story (Taylor) 8(4)
• The Z-Files (Baker) 6(3)
• Paranormal Claims in Peruvian Mass Media (Paz y Miño) 13(3)
  See also Film; Photography

Medicine

• Can Eye Movements Cure Mental Ailments? (Rosen and Lohr) 7(1)
• The Epidemiology of Religion (Stenger) 11(3)
• A Korean Skeptic’s Report: New Ager-Occupied Territory (Kang) 10(1)
• Peddling Snake Oil (Nickell) 8(4)
• Risk Factor (Jones) 5(1)
  See also Alternative medicine

Memory

• Abuse Hysteria Reaches Epidemic Proportions (Schrock) 11(4)

Millennialism

• Potholes in Memory Lane (Alcock) 14(4)
• Stop the Millennium: I Want to Get Off (Beyerstein) 9(3)

Minakami, Ryutarou

• Aum Shinrikyo Incidents and Their Influence on the Media 11(2)

Miracles

• Healing Waters, Part I: Spas (Nickell) 15(3)
• Healing Waters, Part II: Miraculous Springs (Nickell) 15(4)
• The Kenyan “Miracle Babies” Scandal (Igwe) 15(3)
• “Miraculous” Image of Guadalupe (Nickell) 12(2)
• Relics of the Headless Saint (Nickell) 11(2)
• Snake Charming (Nickell) 16(1)
• The Supernatural and Paranormal in Peru (Paz y Miño) 9(4)

Monster sightings. See Creature sightings

• Mothman Revisited: Investigating the Site (Nickell) 12(4)

Morrock, Richard

• Decoding the Message of DNA 15(3)

Music

• The Food of Love? (Jones) 12(3)
• Beethoven’s Babies: Much Ado about Nothing? (McCutcheon) 8(4)
• Musician Rocks the Skeptics (Radford) 15(4)

Muslims. See Islam

Mysteries

• Spoilsports? (Jones) 8(3)

N

Naanawaty, Prabhakar

• Maharashtra’s Superstition Eradication Committee 7(2)

Napier, Tom

• Has the Radioactive Waste Problem Been Solved? 7(2)
• Can Critical Thinking Be Overextended? 11(4)
• Spare Me the Details 11(1)

Neurolinguistic programming

• Neurolinguistic Programming (Jones) 11(1)

Neutrinos

• Big Biased Stories ‘bout the Little Neutral One (Stenger) 8(3)

New Age beliefs

• A Korean Skeptic’s Report: New Ager-Occupied Territory (Kang) 10(1)

Newbrook, Mark

• Good or Bad, Round or Spiky? 15(4)
• Sanskrit and Pseudoscience 11(4)

New Mexicans for Science and Reason (NMSR)

• Skeptics in the Land of Enchantment (Thomas) 5(2)
• Zheng He in the Americas and Other Unlikely Tales of Exploration and Discovery 14(3)

Newton, Isaac

• The God of Isaac (Jones) 5(4)

Nickell, Joe

• Abraham Lincoln: An Instance of Alleged “Spirit Writing” 14(3)
• Believe It or —? 9(2)
• A Bird? A Plane? Or . . . a Flying Saucer? 7(1)
• A Brief History of Friday the 13th 7(2)
• The Case of the Alien Hand 13(3)
• The Case of the “Vanishing” Cloud 7(3)
• Crop Circle Capers 14(1)
• Death by Aliens 12(4)
• Diagnosing the “Medical Intuitives” 12(2)
• The Gypsies’ “Great Trick” 9(1)
• The Haunted Tape Recorder 5(2)
• Headless Ghosts I Have Known 16(4)
• Healing Waters, Part I: Spas 15(3)
• Healing Waters, Part II: Miraculous Springs 15(4)
• How I Became a Skeptic 9(2)
• Human Blowtorch 10(4)
• Hustling Heaven 10(3)
• Investigating Spirit Communications 8(3)
• Italy’s Graveyard “Ghost” Photo 8(2)
• Joe Nickell Delves into Spirits of a Different Kind 13(2)
• The Lake George Monster Hoax 14(4)
• Legend of the White Lady 13(1)
• Levengood’s Crop-Circle Plant Research 6(2)
• Memphre: Lake Memphremagog’s Monster 14(2)
• “Miraculous” Image of Guadalupe 12(2)
• Mothman Revisited: Investigating the Site 12(4)
• Mystique of the Octagon Houses 12(1)
• Nessie Hoax Redux 6(1)
• Nessie Hoax Redux—II 6(3)
• Peddling Snake Oil 8(4)
• Peter Popoff’s “Gift of Knowledge” 13(2)
• Phantom Hitchhikers: Thumb Mystery! 15(1)
• Postmortem on “Alien Autopsy” 16(2)
• Relics of the Headless Saint 11(2)
• Remotely Viewed? The Charlie Jordan Case 11(1)
• Return from the Dead 15(2)
• Reverse Speech 15(2)
• Riddle of the Glowing Statues 13(4)
• The Roswell Legacy 7(2)
• The Sacred Cloth of Oviedo 11(3)
• Secrets of the Voodoo Tomb 11(4)
• Sherlock Holmes, Paranormal Investigator 16(1)
• The Shroud: From Truth to Fantasy 7(4)
• Sideshow! Carnival Oddities and Illusions Provide Lessons for Skeptics 9(4)
• The Skeptic-raping Demon of Zanzibar 5(4)
• Snake Charming 16(1)
• Snake Oil: A Guide for Connoisseurs 16(3)
• Spirit Painting Part I: The Campbell Brothers 10(1)
• Spirit Painting Part II: The Bangs Sisters 10(2)
• Springer Psychic: A Study in “Clairvoyance” 9(3)
• Spontaneous Human Nonsense 6(4)
• “Visitations”: After-Death Contacts 12(3)

Nigeria

• The Need for Skepticism in Nigeria (Igwe) 11(3)
• A Tale of Lies, Deceit, and Fraud (Igwe) 12(4)
• Witchkillings in Nigeria (Igwe) 13(2)

Nisbet, Matt

• CSICOP Takes on TV Conglomerates with “Media Stock Fund” 7(2)

O

Octagon houses

• Mystique of the Octagon Houses (Nickell) 12(1)

Oddities of nature

• Believe It or —? (Nickell) 9(2)
• Sideshow! Carnival Oddities and Illusions Provide Lessons for Skeptics (Nickell) 9(4)

Okulewicz, Steven

• Appearing on TV? Be Prepared! 5(1)

Opinions. See Beliefs and opinions

Orange, Alan

• Bigfoot Buffs Bash Film 15(2)

Oviedo Cloth

• The Sacred Cloth of Oviedo (Nickell) 11(3)

P

Paz y Mino (Miño), Manuel

• Fighting the Paranormal in Peru 10(3)
• The Supernatural and Paranormal in Peru 9(4)
• Paranormal Claims in Peruvian Mass Media 13(3)

Peru

• Fighting the Paranormal in Peru (Paz y Miño and Radford) 10(3)
• The Supernatural and Paranormal in Peru (Paz y Miño) 9(4)
• Paranormal Claims in Peruvian Mass Media (Paz y Miño) 13(3)

Philadelphia Association For Critical Thinking

• Talking about PhACT (Glickman) 6(2)

Peterson, Dawn M.

• Mysterious Beings or Mere Accidents? 14(2)

Photography

• The Curse of Clarity (Flynn) 5(1)
• A Matter of Perspective (Flynn) 5(2)
• Matter of Perspective, Part 2 (Flynn) 5(4)

Physics

• Big Biased Stories ‘bout the Little Neutral One (Stenger) 8(3)
• Buddy Can You Spare a Paradigm? (Stenger) 10(2)
• Davies’s Third Way (Stenger) 15(1)
• Has the Second Law Been Falsified? (Stenger) 12(3)
• Higgs and Significance (Stenger) 11(1)
• Is the Speed of Light Variable? (Stenger) 14(3)
• The Phantom of Free Energy (Stenger) 9(2)
• Psychics, Physics and Magnets (Rothman) 6(1)
• Quantum Time Travel (Stenger) 10(2)
• Spare Me the Details (Napier) 11(1)
• String Theory: Physics or Theology? (Stenger) 16(4)
• Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? (Stenger) 16(2)
  See also Cosmology; Energy

Pickett, Thomas J.

• Can Contamination Save the Shroud of Turin? 6(2)

Piñeda, Jesus

• Youth, Skepticism, and the Generation Gap 16(1)

Placebo effect

• To Please or Not to Please (Jones) 13(1)

Platov, Yulii

• A History of State UFO Research in the USSR 10(4)

Polidoro, Massimo

• Skepticism in Italy 6(1)

Posner, Gary

• Burden of Proof 5(4)
• S.O.P. at CNN 8(3)
• Taking a Stab at a Paranormal Claim 5(2)
• Yellowstone and the Absence of ET Visitations 14(4)

Prayer

• Can Prayer Change the Past? (Stenger) 14(1)
• Prayer Wars (Baker) 7(3)
• A Magical Death? (Stevens) 13(3)
  See also Distant healing

Probability

• Clusters (Jones) 14(2)
• Randomness (Jones) 15(1)

Pseudoscience

• Bad Science, Phony Science, and Pseudoscience (Rothman) 5(2)
• The Enemy Within: Chronology of an Anti-Skepticism Case in Argentina (Borgo) 13(1)
• Free Energy and Teleportation: Numbers Don’t Lie (Stenger) 15(4)
• Has the Radioactive Waste Problem Been Solved? (Napier) 7(2)
• Pseudoscience on the Internet (Rothman) 6(4)
• The Sacred Cloth of Oviedo (Nickell) 11(3)
• Tuning Up Your Crank Filters (Stenger) 11(2)

Psychic detectives

• I Can Smell Onions! (McLeod) 16(3)

Psychic phenomena

• Absence of Mind (Jones) 8(2)
• Meta-Analysis and the Filedrawer Effect (Stenger) 12(4)
• Miracles for Sale (Jones) 7(1)
• Psychic Powers: Simple Tests for Use by Skeptics (Shotwell) 10(3)
• Psychic Predictions (and Rationalizations) Fail Again (Radford) 15(2)
• Ritual Killing and Pseudoscience in Nigeria (Igwe) 14(2)
• Skepticism in Argentina: Life and Death and Magical Thinking (Borgo) 12(1)
  See also Clairvoyance; Distant healing; Fortunetelling; Psychic detectives; Spiritualism

Psychology

• Absence of Mind (Jones) 8(2)
• Can Eye Movements Cure Mental Ailments? (Rosen and Lohr) 7(1)
• Cognitive Illusions (Jones) 9(1)
• Beethoven’s Babies: Much Ado about Nothing? (McCutcheon) 8(4)
• Crazy about Qigong (Mainfort) 11(2)
• Freedom and License (Jones) 10(2)
• From Advocacy to Madness: A Short and Slippery Slope (Baker) 8(3)
• Medicine after Death (Jones) 6(2)
• Neurolinguistic Programming (Jones) 11(1)
• Psychology and Ethics (Alcock) 16(2)
• What Do You Think? (Jones) 9(2)
• The World’s Greatest Paranoid? (Baker) 8(2)
  See also Memory

Pyramids

• Pyramid Power . . . Again! (Fogg) 13(2)

Q

Queenan, Joe

• Beyond Feng Shui 12(4)

Qigong

• Crazy about Qigong (Mainfort) 11(2)
• Qigong Politics of Nanjing University (Mainfort) 8(3)
• The Roots of Qi (Mainfort) 10(1)
• Sima Nan: Fighting Qigong Pseudoscience in China (Mainfort) 9(1)
• Sima Nan Battles Qigong Master Hu Wanlin in China (Mainfort) 10(3)

R

Radford, Benjamin

• CSICOP Celebrates 25th Anniversary 11(2)
• CSICOP Firewalk Teaches the Public about Physics 10(4)
• De-ghosting The Amityville Horror (Radford) 15(1)
• Fighting the Paranormal in Peru 10(3)
• Fortunetelling in Film: The Final Destination Movies 13(1)
• How I Became a Skeptic 9(3)
• Lessons and Loss in the Columbia Space Shuttle 13(1)
• Living Skepticism 11(3)
• Messages from Beyond at a Spiritualist Meeting 12(2)
• Musician Rocks the Skeptics 15(4)
• Psychic Predictions (and Rationalizations) Fail Again 15(2)
• Reel or Real? The Truth behind Two Hollywood Ghost Stories (Radford and Gaeddert) 15(1)
• Stranger Danger: How Real Is It? 16(2)
• Supernatural on the Streets: The Paranormal in Toronto Street News 11(1)
• U-Haul Moves into the Paranormal 11(4)
• How Cryptozoologists Created a Monster 13(3)
• Walking Among the Dead 14(1)
  See also Briefs Briefs, starting in 12(3)

Raso, Jack

• Alternative Medicine Has a Lot of Soul 7(4)

Reincarnation

• The Reincarnation Lecture (Agate) 15(4)

Religion

• Art Bell’s Quickening Is Sickening (Baker) 7(4)
• The Book (Jones) 9(4)
• The Epidemiology of Religion (Stenger) 11(3)
• How to Make 6 Days Last 13 Billion Years (Stenger) 8(4)
• Porkies (Jones) 13(4)
  See also Christianity; Islam; Prayer

Resurrection

• A Tale of Lies, Deceit, and Fraud (Igwe) 12(4)

Ripley, Robert L.

• Believe It or —? (Nickell) 9(2)

Rosen, Gerald M.

• Can Eye Movements Cure Mental Ailments? 7(1)

Rothman, Milton

• Bad Science, Phony Science and Pseudoscience 5(2)
• A Catalog of Capers and Grails 7(2)
• EMFs Again 5(4)
• On the Internet 6(3)
• Magnets and Motion 6(2)
• More Free Energy and Hot Air 7(3)
• New Ideas: What Do We Do with Them? 7(1)
• Pseudoscience on the Internet 6(4)
• Psychics, Physics and Magnets 6(1)
• Scientific Illiteracy in the Press 5(1)
• Sci-Fi Art, the Levitron, and Collapsing Atoms 7(4)

Russia

• A History of State UFO Research in the USSR (Platov and Sokolov) 10(4)

S

San Diego Skeptics

• Dare to Think: San Diego Association for Rational Inquiry (Taylor) 15(3)
• San Diego Skeptics: Setting an Example (Taylor) 10(1)

Scheinberg, Norman

• Testing Belief in Conspiracy Theories 6(4)

Schrock, Gladden

• Abuse Hysteria Reaches Epidemic Proportions 11(4)

Science

• The Book (Jones) 9(4)
• Describing the Process Scientific (Hunt) 16(1)
• Ideas (Jones) 15(4)
• Improving Scientific Literacy (Baker) 6(1)
• Misplaced Awe: How the Shuttle Disaster Highlights the Lack of Respect for Science and Technology (Christopher) 13(1)
• New Ideas: What Do We Do with Them? (Rothman) 7(1)
• Research Request: Teleology and Anthropomorphism (Carpenter) 6(3)
• Science, A Candle in the Dark (Lipps) 9(3)
• Science Allah Carte (Jones) 12(1)
• Scientific Illiteracy in the Press (Rothman) 5(1)
• Spoilsports? (Jones) 8(3)
• Who Let the Dogmatism Out? (Stenger) 12(1)
• What Is Really Real? (Stenger) 13(3)
  See also Experimentation; Physics; Pseudoscience

Science fiction

• Sci-Fi Art, the Levitron, and Collapsing Atoms (Rothman) 7(4)

Scientific remote viewing

• Scientific Remote Viewing (Baker) 6(2)

Scott, Reginald

• The Discovery of Reginald Scott (Jones) 10(1)

Scurvy

• The Plague of the Sea (Jones) 15(2)

September 2001 terrorist attacks

• L’Effroyable Auteur (Christopher) 12(2)
• 2002: The Year of the Conspiracy Cranks (Christopher) 12(4)

Sex and sexuality

• Abuse Hysteria Reaches Epidemic Proportions (Schrock) 11(4)
• Language and Sex (Jones) (10

Shakespeare, William

• The Bard Code (Jones) 7(4)

Shen Zhenyu

• China’s Scientific Community Denounces Superstition and Pseudoscience 7(3)

Sherlock Holmes

• Sherlock Holmes, Paranormal Investigator (Nickell) 16(1)

Shotwell, David A.

• Psychic Powers: Simple Tests for Use by Skeptics 10(3)

Shroud of Turin

• Can Contamination Save the Shroud of Turin? (Pickett) 6(2)
• The Shroud: From Truth to Fantasy (Nickell) 7(4)

Skeptiseum

• New and Improved Skeptiseum Debuts in September (Christopher) 13(3)
• Skeptiseum “Ghost and Spirit” Exhibit (Christopher) 14(3)
  See also each issue starting with 13(4)

Skepticism

• Can Critical Thinking be Overextended? (Napier) 11(4)
• The Early Days of Skeptic Activity in Belgium (Dommanget) 9(1)
• Explaining the Unexplained: Is Jerry Clark a Closet Skeptic? (Baker) 5(2)
• Fighting the Paranormal in Peru (Paz y Miño and Radford) 10(3)
• How Far Can Critical Thinking Be Extended? (Kurtz) 11(3)
• How I Became a Skeptic (Nickell) 9(2)
• How I Became a Skeptic (Radford) 9(3)
• A Little Help from Our Friends (Jones) 13(2)
• Living Skepticism (Radford) 11(3)
• Maharashtra’s Superstition Eradication Committee (Naanawaty and Khlare) 7(2)
• Mysterious Beings or Mere Accidents? (Peterson) 14(2)
• The Need for Skepticism in Nigeria (Igwe) 11(3)
• The New Skepticism: A Statement of Principles (Kurtz) 12(1)
• The New Skepticism: A Worldwide Movement (Kurtz) 8(2)
• Prescription: A Small Dose of Skepticism Daily (Fogg) 15(4)
• San Diego Skeptics: Setting an Example (Taylor) 10(1)
• Skepticism in Italy (Polidoro) 6(1)
• Skeptics in the Land of Enchantment (Thomas) 5(2)
• Thinking Critically (Alcock) 15(3)
• When Worldviews Collide (Grey) 5(2)
• Who Am I Speaking To? (Jones) 12(4)
  See also Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP); Young skeptics

Snake Oil

• Snake Oil: A Guide for Connoisseurs (Nickell) 16(3)

Sokolov, Boris

• A History of State UFO Research in the USSR 10(4)

Space exploration

• Lessons and Loss in the Columbia Space Shuttle (Radford) 13(1)
• Misplaced Awe: How the Shuttle Disaster Highlights the Lack of Respect for Science and Technology (Christopher) 13(1)
• Personal Observations on the Reliability of the Shuttle (Feynman) 13(1)
• Shut Down the Shuttle (Stenger) 13(4)

Spain

• Relics of the Headless Saint (Nickell) 11(2)

Spiritualism

• Abraham Lincoln: An Instance of Alleged “Spirit Writing” (Nickell) 14(3)
• Hustling Heaven (Nickell) 10(3)
• Investigating Spirit Communications (Nickell) 8(3)
• Messages from Beyond at a Spiritualist Meeting (Radford) 12(2)
• Midnight Adventures in a Graveyard (Leonard) 10(4)
• Paranormal Phenomena in Chile (Zuniga Contreras) 10(2)
• Spirit Painting, Part I: The Campbell Brothers (Nickell) 10(1)
• Spirit Painting, Part II: The Bangs Sisters (Nickell) 10(2)
• Two Psychics and a Holy Table: Adventures in Cuckoo Correspondence (Leonard) 10(2)

Spontaneous combustion

• Spontaneous Human Nonsense (Nickell) 6(4)

Stein, Gordon

• The Literature of Cryptozoology 5(1)

Steiner, Bob

• You Don’t Have to Cheat to Get It Wrong! 9(2)

Stenger, Victor J.

• Are Christianity and Darwinism Compatible? 12(2)
• Big Biased Stories ‘bout the Little Neutral One 8(3)
• Buddy Can You Spare a Paradigm? 10(2)
• Can Prayer Change the Past? 14(1)
• The Churchill Case 16(3)
• Davies’s Third Way 15(1)
• Einstein’s Blunder 9(1)
• The Emperor’s New Designer Clothes 10(4)
• The Energy Fields of Life 8(2)
• The Epidemiology of Religion 11(3)
• Free Energy and Teleportation: Numbers Don’t Lie 15(4)
• The Evolution of Creationism 14(2)
• Has the Second Law Been Falsified? 12(3)
• Higgs and Significance 11(1)
• How to Make 6 Days Last 13 Billion Years 8(4)
• Human Gamma Rays 9(4)
• Is the Speed of Light Variable? 14(3)
• Marooned on Spaceship Earth 14(4)
• Meta-Analysis and the Filedrawer Effect 12(4)
• The Parallel Delusion of ESP and Cold Fusion 9(3)
• The Phantom of Free Energy 9(2)
• The Privileged Planet: A New Wedge in the Discovery Arsenal of Stealth Weapons 15(3)
• Qi=mc?? 15(2)
• Quantum Time Travel 10(2)
• Shut Down the Shuttle 13(4)
• The Science of Prayer 11(4)
• String Theory: Physics or Theology? 16(4)
• Supernatural Science 16(1)
• The Tragic Story of Elisabeth Targ 13(1)
• Tuning Up Your Crank Filters 11(2)
• When Did It All Begin? Or Did It? 10(1)
• Who Let the Dogmatism Out? 12(1)
• Darwinism and the Age of Earth 13(2)
• What Is Really Real? 13(3)
• Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? (Stenger) 16(2)

Stern, Robert

• Meeting of the MUFONs 11(1)

Stevens, Phillips, Jr.

• A Magical Death? 13(3)

Strickland, Becky, et. al.

• CSICOP and PhACT Attend Philadelphia Science Teachers Weekend 13(2)

Strieber, Whitley

• Behold: A New Prophet-Savior Is Born! (Baker) 7(1)

Summer, Edward

• Conan Doyle’s Revenge 5(4)

Supervolcanoes

• Yellowstone and the Absence of ET Visitations (Posner) 14(4)

T

Taiwan

• Harried by “Hellions” in Taiwan (Vierra) 7(1)
• Imported Paranormal Beliefs in Taiwan (Vierra) 7(2)
• Resources on the Paranormal and Pseudoscience in Taiwan (Vierra) 7(3)

Taoism

• The Tao of Pooh-Poohing (Vierra) 7(3)

Targ, Elisabeth

• The Tragic Story of Elisabeth Targ (Stenger) 13(1)
• A Magical Death? (Stevens) 13(3)

Taylor, Keith

• Dare to Think: San Diego Association for Rational Inquiry 15(3)
• San Diego Skeptics: Setting an Example 10(1)
• Science or Faith, Take Your Choice 10(2)
• A Skeptic in Hell 9(2)
• A Touching Story 8(4)

Technology

• A Phantom Menace? (Busher) 15(2)

Terrorism

• Aum Shinrikyo Incidents and Their Influence on the Media (Minakami) 11(2)
• A Modest Proposal (Baker) 9(1)
  See also September 2001 terrorist attacks

Thomas, Dave

• NBC’s “Origins” Show 6(1)
• Skeptics in the Land of Enchantment 5(2)

Time travel

• Quantum Time Travel (Stenger) 10(2)

Trachet, Tim

• Psychics and Missing Children in Belgium 7(1)

U

UFOs and aliens

• Aliens Are from Mars, Solved Mysteries from Venus (Christopher) 11(1)
• An Alien Taxonomy (Baker) 7(2)
• Belief in UFOs Proves Not So “Harmless” (Burda) 7(1)
• A Bird? A Plane? Or . . . a Flying Saucer? (Nickell) 7(1)
• The Case of the “Vanishing” Cloud (Nickell) 7(3)
• Death by Aliens (Nickell) 12(4)
• The Enemy Within: Chronology of an Anti-Skepticism Case in Argentina (Borgo) 13(1)
• Far Out Books of the Month Club (Baker) 5(1)
• A History of State UFO Research in the USSR (Platov and Sokolov) 10(4)
• Iridology Works Well on the Planet Irisinius (McCutcheon) 6(2)
• The Lost Meteorological Blimp (Humphrey) 6(4)
• Marooned on Spaceship Earth (Stenger) 14(4)
• Meeting of the MUFONs (Stern) 11(1)
• The Roswell Legacy (Nickell) 7(2)
• Scientific Remote Viewing (Baker) 6(2)
• A Skeptic in Hell (Taylor) 9(2)
• 2002: The Year of the Conspiracy Crank (Christopher) 12(4)
• Workshop on 50 Years of UFO Myth (Jisonna and Mechler) 7(4)
• The Case of the Alien Hand (Nickell) 13(3)

Urban legends

• The Disappearing Writing Guru, Sweetwater and Chicken McNugget: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before (Beyerstein) 14(1)
• High School Confidential (Madigan) 7(1)

V

Verstappen, Harrie

• Come Waste Some Time in the Looniverse! 11(1)

Vierra, Monty

• Harried by “Hellions” in Taiwan 7(1)
• Imported Paranormal Beliefs in Taiwan 7(2)
• Resources on the Paranormal and Pseudoscience in Taiwan 7(3)
• The Tao of Pooh-Poohing 7(3)

Vijayam, G.

• Investigating Witchcraft and Sorcery in Rangareddi District, India 12(2)

Voodoo

• Secrets of the Voodoo Tomb (Nickell) 11(4)

W

Weinstein, Larry

• The Visit 11(2)

Willey, David

• Putting Feet to the Fire and a Record to the Test 14(1)

Witchcraft

• The Discoverie of Reginald Scott (Jones) 10(1)
• Investigating Witchcraft and Sorcery in Rangareddi District, India (Vijayam) 12(2)
• A Walk on the Dark Side (Jones) 11(2)
• Witchkillings in Nigeria (Igwe) 13(2)
  See also Voodoo

Wu Xianghong

• Paranormal in China 5(1)

X

X-Files, The

• The Z-Files (Baker) 6(3)

Y

Young skeptics

• Educating Our Future: The Young Skeptics Program (Chesworth) 12(1)
• Psychic vs. Skeptical Predictions (Fagin)16(2)
• Youth, Skepticism, and the Generation Gap (Piñeda) 16(1)

Z

Zanzibar

• The Skeptic-raping Demon of Zanzibar (Nickell) 5(4)

Zuniga Contreras, Diego

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