Skeptic Volume 2, Number 3 (1994): Fad Psychology and False Memory Syndrome

Skeptics' Forum

Letters: Satanic Smoke; Geller Cutlery; Skeptical Thought Control; Elvis Called Me; The Science of Santa; Christianity Not Founded by a Jew, Larue Responds; Scientific Ignorance and Arrogance, Rothman Responds; Babbage Not Top 12; Freethinkers and Charismatic Paranoids; Debunking Ayn Rand; Rand Not an Absolutist?; The Shermer "Phenomena(on)"; By Any Other Name; Truth--the First Casualty?; Hanging on to the First Amendment; Meeting the Test; Welcome to Our Offices; Asking the Right Questions; Not an Idiot

Skeptical News

Holocaust Denial; Allen, Randi at Caltech; Skeptic in Supermarkets; Creationists' Latest Strategy Countered; Where Your Membership Money Goes; Randi Supernova; CBS Not Thwarted by Hoax; "Protocols" Forgery; SETI Program Ended; Gallo Vindicated; Should Science be Censored?; Silicon Psychic; Murder Blamed on Witchcraft; The Millennium--7 or 8 Years Away?; Lives of a Biology Watcher; What Jesus Really Said; Every Time a Bell Rings; A Dickens of a Lady; Embassy for E.T.; What is a Humanist?; Supreme Court Denies Atheists

ArkEOLOGY SPECIAL:

Sun Goes Down in Flames: The Jammal Ark Hoax

By Jim Lippard

The Incredible Mysteries of Sun Pictures

By David Bloomberg

Flood Myths and Sunken Arks: Who Needs to Believe in Noah's Ark and Why?

By Gerald Larue

Skeptical Perspectives: Introduction to a SPECIAL SECTION on the Mind: An Epidemic of Accusation: The Chaos of Witch Crazes and Their Modern Descendants

By Michael Shermer

Recovered Memory Therapy and False Memory Syndrome

By John Hochman

Misplaced Trust: A First Person Account of How My Therapist Created False Memories

By Laura Pasley

Facilitated Communication: Mental Miracle or Sleight of Hand?

By Gina Green

The Illusion of Science in Psychiatry

By Carol Tavris

Diagnoses are Not Diseases: A Skeptical Analysis of Psychiatry

By Thomas Szasz

William Reich--Epigones of Orgonomy: The Incredible History of William Reich and his Followers

By Joel Carlinsky

Pseudo--Psychotherapy: UFO's, Cloudbusters, Conspiracies, and Paranoia in William Reich's Psychotherapy

By Richard Morrock

Sex, Brains, and Hands: How Women and Men Think

By Diane Halpern

In Brief and In Review: Books and Articles of Interest:

Desperately Seeking Sanity: A Review of Gerald Holton's Science and Anti-Science by Thomas McDonough; Scenes from the Books of Life: Deconstruction as a Form of Skepticism: A Review of Martin Rudwick's Scenes From Deep Time and Stephen Jay Gould's The Book of Life by Michael Shermer