Skeptical Inquirer

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Articles in Sept-Oct 2003 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

Russian Academy of Sciences waking up to False Science
by Valerii Kuvakin
Nostradamus's clever 'clairvoyance': the power of ambiguous specificity; how did a French astrologer, dead for over 400 years, become a premier commentator on world events in 2001? The authors' research shows that Nostradamus's dark prophecies are ambiguo
by Maziar Yafeh
Labor of luck - Letter to the Editor
Druyan, Loftus head CFI-West opening conference on the 'Assault on Reason' - Ann Druyan, Elizabeth Loftus, Center for Inquiry-West, Los Angeles, California, June 21, 2003
by Kendrick Frazier
They see dead people—or do they? An investigation of television mediums: the hosts' charm and style, a pliable audience conditioned to readily overlook misses, and some judicious editing of the videotape are all that's really necessary to explain the
by James Underdown
PMS myths - Letter to the Editor
Ghosts in the physics lab - News And Comment - Brief Article - Illustration
Energy, homeopathy, and hypnosis in Santa Fe: skeptics get called closed-minded. As an experiment, why not immerse oneself in the mindset and environs of the believers? Santa Fe, New Mexico, is an easy place to do it
by Todd Seavey
Why not this test? - Letter to the Editor
by David Wilcox
Spirited protest - spiritualism, Camp Chesterfield, Indiana
by Joe Nickell
Faking UFO photos for the twenty-first century: for a modern planetarium show, an astronomer/program producer created a variety of fake UFO images as a way of showing audiences how easily such photos can be done
by Tom Callen
Deduction and induction - Letter to the Editor
Haunted plantation - Myrtles Plantation Bed and Breakfast, St. Francisville, Louisiana
by Joe Nickell
A clear, sharp view of the fuzzy inkblot test - What's Wrong with the Rorschach? - Book Review
by Terence Hines
Another interpretation - Letter to the Editor
by Gerald C. Helmstadter
UFOs hot and cold - San Luis Valley, Colorado
by Robert Sheaffer
A nuanced biography of a tragic figure in science - Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection - Book Review
by Greg Martinez
Classic SF - Letter to the Editor
by James Gunn
When bias is good, when bias is bad - Thinking About Science
by Massimo Pigliucci
Questioning the foundations of psychology - Psychomythics: Sources of Artifacts and Misconceptions in Scientific Psychology - Book Review
by Peter Lamal
Wolfram's opus - Letter to the Editor
by David B. Gustavson
From CAM to scam - complementary and alternative medicine - Editorial
by Kendrick Frazier
The lost Messiah: secrets on psychical research emerge from a stack of forgotten documents - Notes On A Strange World
by Massimo Polidoro
An elegant French guide to pseudoscience - L'Imposture Scientifique en Dix Lecons - Book Review
by Neil Inglis
False impression? - Letter to the Editor
by Jack Sarfatti
James ossuary verdict: ossuary genuine, inscription fake - Brief Article
by Joe Nickell
The ongoing problem with the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine: in spite of statements to the contrary by its director, the NCCAM continues to fund and promote pseudoscience. Political pressures and the Center's charter would seem
by Kimball C. Atwood, IV
An old refutation of divining - Georgius Agricola, De Re Metallica, 1556
by Steven Abbott
Ideology as research - Letter to the Editor
by E. Patrick Curry
One nation's victory for sanity over alternative medicine - Australia
by Barry Williams
What does education really do? Educational dimensions and pseudoscience support in the American general public, 1979-2001
by Susan Carol Losh
Top 10 best sellers in New York - Science Best Sellers - Brief Article - Bibliography
Penn & Teller's TV show - Letter to the Editor