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Articles in July-August 2006 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• Florida psychic jailed for fraud
  by Greg Martinez
• When philosophy matters
  by Massimo Pigliucci
• The big sleep or just a nap?
  by Greg Martinez
• Cyberterrorism, Hoaxers, and Policymakers
  by Jim Lippard
• Questions for ID
  by Timothy Weakley
• Governor snubs Kentucky Academy of Science about intelligent design
  by David Ludden
• Houdini's impossible demonstration
  by Massimo Polidoro
• Saving a disenchanted world with astrology?
  by Geoffrey Dean
• Critical thinking
  by Pantazis Mouroulis
• Dinosaur Adventure Land slated for demolition
  by Greg Martinez
• The internet: a shining beacon of truth
  by Robert Sheaffer
• A lively guide to resisting bogus reasoning
  by Mark Durm
• Memory Wars
  by Adriaan J.W. Mak
• 'Alien Rains' of Kerala not so alien after all
  by Ian Williams Goddard
• Please pass the globster
  by Benjamin Radford
• Body of evidence
  by Benjamin Radford
• Big Bird, Big Lie
  by Anthony Robinson
• A Swedish Professorship in parapsychology
  by Jesper Jerkert, Hansson, Sven Ove
• Magnet therapy: a billion-dollar boondoggle: about a billion dollars a year is now spent on "magnet therapy," which is claimed to eliminate many symptoms and diseases. Basic scientific principles indicate that all of this money is wasted
  by Bruce L. Flamm
• Chasing Reality: Strife over Realism
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Evolutionary Psychology
  by David Archibald
• Alien autopsy hoax revealed-again
  by David Park Musella
• The philosophy behind pseudoscience: every intellectual endeavor, whether authentic or bogus, has an underlying philosophy. Science, for example, involves six kinds of philosophical ideas. These differ totally from those behind pseudoscience. Evaluating a
  by Mario Bunge
• Controversial Therapies for Developmental Disabilities: Fad, Fashion, and Science in Professional Practice
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Don't Blink?
  by Steve Isaacson
• The wrong stuff: men's magazine's psychic columnist
  by Benjamin Radford
• Why quantum mechanics is not so weird after all: Richard Feynman's "least-action" approach to quantum physics in effect shows that it is just classical physics constrained by a simple mechanism. When the complicated mathematics is left aside, va
  by Paul Quincey
• Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Natural childbirth
  by Rosalyn Upson
• Center for Inquiry opens in India
  by Austin Dacey
• Science is for sale : until all types of threats to scientific integrity are discussed and handled more effectively, they jeopardize the validity of medical research and the public's trust in it. In the end, public resources and patients' health are at st
  by Ragnar Levi
• Darwin Is My Hero: Poems About Science and Superstition
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Chilling in Kansas
  by Jerome N. Cragle, Jr.
• Explanatory frameworks and investigative exposes
  by Kendrick Frazier
• In defense of the higher values
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Why great thinkers sometimes fail to think critically: why did two great thinkers, Arthur Conan Doyle and Alfred Russel Wallace, believe in spiritualism and other paranormal claims? It was not because they lacked critical thinking skills but because they
  by D. Alan Bensley
• Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World's Most Elusive Creatures
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Ivory-billed woodpecker
  by M. Alan Jenkins
• One big step: another major study confirms that distant prayers do not heal the sick
  by Bruce L. Flamm
• Riddle of the crystal skulls
  by Joe Nickell
• Evolution's radical future
  by James N. Gardner
• The State of State SCIENCE Standards
  by Kendrick Frazier
• In search of Dracula
  by Stu Burns