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Articles in Jan-Feb 2002 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• Astrology teaching may enter universities in India - News and comment - Brief Article
  by Prasenjit Maiti
• Snaring the fowler: Mark Twain Debunks phrenology: In the 1870s Mark Twain performed a single-blind reliability test on the analysis technique of Lorenzo Niles Fowler, one of the eminent phrenologists of the day
  by Delano Jose Lopez
• 'Geology confronts creationism': An undergraduate science curriculum - Forum
  by Mark A. Wilson
• Poptronics' readers say 'Thumbs down' to pseudoscience - News and comment - proposal to turn Egyptian pyramid into triode amplifier based on inaccurate science - Brief Article
  by Tom Napier
• Three skeptics' debate tools examined: Occam's razor, assigning burden of proof, and Sagan's phrase about extraordinary claims are often misunderstood. In a debate it always pays to know why these tools work - Carl Sagan
  by Alvaro Caso
• Explaining the cheese - Forum
  by Ralph Estling
• What's new? Four more reports from the weird science front - News and comment - Brief Article
  by Robert Park
• Mickey Mouse discovers the 'real' Atlantis - Special report
  by Paul S. Hardersen
• SI: In need of a psychic - Forun
  by Alan Miller
• John Edward's televised tragedy seance scrapped - News and comment - World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001 - Brief Article
  by Benjamin Radford
• Atlantis behind the myth: No way, no how, no where - Special report
  by Kevin Christopher
• Alternative veterinary medical treatments: A misrepresentation? - Follow-up - Brief Article
  by Karen R. Munana
• 10th European Skeptics Congress: Rise and development of paranormal beliefs in Eastern Europe - Conference report - September 7-9, 2001 - European Council of Skeptical Organizations
  by Martin Mahner
• Even better the second time 'round. . - book review
  by James E. Alcock
• Robert A. Imrie responds - Follow-up - response to article in this issue, p. 57 - Brief Article
• Some thoughts about induction - Notes of a fringe-watcher - inductive reasoning
  by Martin Gardner
• Psychoanalysis: Anything there? . - book review
  by Peter Lamal
• Readers forum on science and religion 2001
• Voodoo in New Orleans - Investigative files - Louisiana
  by Joe Nickell
• Lucid commentaries with something to say. . - book review
  by Mark Durm
• Gardner's 'multiverses and blackberries' - Letters to the editor
• Myths of murder and multiple regression - use of econometrics in concealed-weapons policymaking
  by Ted Goertzel
• Skepticism on the half-shell. . - book review
  by Benjamin Radford
• Unprovable negatives? - Letters to the editor
• Education, scientific knowledge, and belief in the paranormal
  by Erich Goode
• Facing Up: Science and its Cultural Adversaries. . - New books - book review
  by Kendrick Frazier
• TV station's skeptical investigation laudable - Letter to the editor
• Exploiting human tragedy, and the new no-nonsense - Editor's note - World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001 and parapsychology - Brief Article - Editorial
• A university's struggle with chiropractic - York University, Toronto, Ontario
  by Michael De Robertis
• Medical Journalism: Exposing Fact, Fiction, Fraud. . - New books - book review
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Correction: Dropped paragraph in sheldrake article - Letter to the editor