Skeptical Inquirer

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Articles in July-August 2008 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• Does this add up?
  by William H. Hinkle
• CFI public policy office starts online blog
• AGU revises position on climate change
• But You Deceived Me! The necessity of deception in investigation of the paranormal: a student concludes that the use of pretext is invaluable in the quest for truth after completing a project in which she put five psychics—unbeknown to them—to t
  by Katharine Merow
• Laboratories of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France
  by Kendrick Frazier
• For the record
• The Physics of Christianity
  by John Schmitt
• A physicist's spirited defense of string theory and science
  by Justin Trottier
• God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
  by Kendrick Frazier
• In a mirror, darkly: does superstition reflect rationality? how can humans be rational when they persist in believing in superstitions? The answer depends seeing reasoning as inherently bounded
  by Konrad Talmont-Kaminski
• Likely voters prefer evolution over creationism
  by Greg Laden
• Science and Nonbelief
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Gardnerian whimsy and insight, new and old
  by Sid Deutsch
• When faith kills: Christian healing at the expense of rational medicine
  by Kenneth W. Krause
• Snake oil science
  by Kurt Youngman
• Paul Kurtz calls Expelled film 'anti-science propaganda'
  by Nathan Bupp
• The new China… and more
  by Jeffrey T. Richardson
• Photoghosts: images of the spirit realm?
  by Joe Nickell
• A skeleton's tale: the origins of modern spiritualism
  by Joe Nickell
• The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life
  by Benjamin Radford
• Science not self-correcting?
  by Rich Homa
• More on Lomborg and climate change
  by L.M. Arndt
• Schwartz's Energy Healing
  by David W. Briggs
• For the record
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Alternative science
  by Massimo Pigliucci
• Pseudoscientists and their worlds
  by Donald Simanek
• Thank you, SI
  by Steve Mah
• The idene: an early appearance of the meme's meme?
  by Ralph H. Lutts
• On not indoctrinating children
  by Judy Deutsch
• The fallacy of misplaced rationalism
  by Robert Sheaffer
• Broadening our scientific horizons
  by Kenneth W. Krause
• Premature burials
  by Raoul Drapeau
• The mysterious Phoenix lights
  by Benjamin Radford
• The beginner's guide to 'holistic' wellness
  by Dimitry Rotstein
• Clarke, cognition, and the presidential campaign
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Scrutiny of prophets not for SI
  by Ian Alterman
• Physics for the people
  by Daniel Grassam
• Arthur 'n' me
  by Harlan Ellison
• Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God
  by Kendrick Frazier
• What's the fuss about GM foods?
  by Kevin Levites
• The spate of bogus research papers from Korean scientists
  by Frank Reiser
• Anomalous cognition: a meeting of minds? A conference on "anomalous cognition" features unusual claims and raises issues on the role of scientific evidence, replicability, and philosophy of science, plus another: when should one stop looking for
  by Amir Raz
• Court dismisses Cha Suit, vindicates Flamm on questioned prayer/fertility study
• Science, art inform each other,
  by James K. Kettlewell
• Controversy Erupts over errors, bias in textbook examined by CFI
  by Henry Huber
• Stamps of approval for four U.S. scientists; Carl Sagan next?
• Anomalous Cognition? A second perspective: challenged by findings of leading parapsychologists that the evidence for anomalous cognition was not repeatable and has otherwise failed to meet scientific standards, participants in a conference on the subject
  by Ray Hyman
• Did Man Create God? Is Your Spiritual Brain at Peace with Your Thinking Brain?
  by Kendrick Frazier