Skeptical Inquirer

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Articles in March-April 2008 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• A large federal study concluded that a mercury-based preservative once used in many vaccines does not raise the risk of neurological problems in children
• The pervasive placebo effect
  by Peter Lamal
• 'I am Houdini! And you are a fraud!'
  by Massimo Polidoro
• Author response: memes concept too broad and imprecise
  by Massimo Pigliucci
• The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former U.S. vice president Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize at ceremonies in Oslo December 10
• Confronting the foes of candor and knowledge
  by Kenneth W. Krause
• Alien Ghosts at Roswell
  by Robert Sheaffer
• A Democratic congressional report issued December 10 after a sixteen-month investigation concluded that the White House has systematically tried to manipulate climate change science and minimize the dangers of global warming
• New National Academy book defends evolution
• Ten million marriages: an astrological detective story: the largest test of astrology ever undertaken shows that love has nothing to do with the stars—even though patterns in the data can be misleading
  by David Voas
• CFI attacks dismissal of Texas educator for her pro-evolution actions
• Vaccines and autism
  by William Atkinson
• Declaration defends Europe's genetically modified maize
  by Michel Naud
• New Books
  by Kendrick Frazier
• China gone modern: amid explosive growth and modernization, China and CFI congress speakers ponder sustainability and the popularization, enjoyment, understanding, and widest possible applications of science
  by Kendrick Frazier
• The comic pratfalls of Richard Roberts
  by Martin Gardner
• Cognitive dissonance
  by Lathel Duffield
• 2005 Ad
  by Benjamin Radford
• The trouble with the Trouble with Memetics
  by Susan Blackmore
• Science leaders, CFI call for science debate among presidential candidates
• Biodynamics and wine
  by Sigrun Buckley
• Bad journalism misleads public about psychics
  by Benjamin Radford
• Born Again, Inc.: Senate investigating six prophets for profit
  by Donna Budniewski
• The force of change in China
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Skepticism of AIDS science?
  by David Crowe
• Evolution in action: nonhumans
  by Rob Dunn
• Altercation with a Angel
  by Jim Underdown
• Tunguska asteroid size downgraded by new computer simulations
• Evolution in action: humans
  by Henry Harpending
• Finger in the Dike story?
  by B.H. Howard
• Bark at the moon
  by Benjamin Radford
• Two meanings of 'faith" confuse even scientists
  by Robert L. Park
• The new China and the old: twenty years of CSI and CFI interactions with China help reinforce Chinese scholars' efforts in boosting scientific understanding and attaining some degree of harmony in a complex country grappling with an incredible development
  by Paul Kurtz
• No evolution in action: space aliens
  by Jim Belshaw
• Spook Hills
  by Bob Masta
• Gary Schwartz's energy healing experiments: the Emperor's New Clothes? Gary Schwartz says his experiments reveal our natural power to heal based on our ability to sense and manipulate human energy fields. Has he discovered scientific truths, or has he onl
  by Harriet Hall
• Entombed alive!
  by Joe Nickell
• Let's keep our cool about global warming: when it comes to climate change, we need to cool our dialogue and consider the arguments for and against different policy options. In the heat of a loud and obnoxious debate, facts and reason lose out
  by Bjorn Lomborg
• The World Health Organization and UNICEF reported in October that improved routine immunization programs and huge national drives to give children a second dose of the inexpensive measles vaccine have contributed to a 91 percent reduction in measles morta
• Man on the Moon
  by Ray Ward
• The strange case of Frank Jennings Tipler
  by Martin Gardner
• Toward a consilience of sciences and humanities?
  by Massimo Pigliucci
• Cool careers for dummies: psychic detective
  by Paul Desormeaux