Skeptic Volume 3, Number 1 (1994): PSEUDOMEDICINE

Features

Skeptical News

False Memories Sell; Think Your Cancer Away; UFO Lighter Than Air; A Dead Sweaty Elvis?; Mystery Fumes Called Mass Psychogenic Illness; Remember the Alamo; The Astrology of Accidents; Nat Can Con; NSTA Needs New Director; Aliens With Runny Noses; A 35mm Jesus; Color Me Blue (And Violet, Indigo, Green,Yellow, Orange, & Red); Freethinker's Directory; Christopher Columbus, P.I.

So Long...

Nobel 2; Speaking of Vitamins; Sperry's Split Brains; Popper's Principle

More News

48 Dead in Cult Suicide; Happy 80th Martin Gardner; "Psychic" Geller Loses Libel Suit Against Prometheus

Skeptics' Forum: Letters

Boy Scout Atheists Clarification; Agnosticism Unites; The A Word; Atheists Not Obnoxious; Agnosticism is Dogmatic; The Strong and the Weak-Shermer Responds; Asimov's Method; Right Within Limits; Mind-Boggling Trends; Smoot's Flat Earth; The Handwriting on the Wall; ICD 273.3; Skeptical of Madonna; Urban Myth; 7-Up Anyone?

Extreme Afrocentrism and Holocaust Revisionism:

Aborigines on the Moon?; Revisionist Jewbaiting; Hey Vito, Put it in Writing; Evil is Evil; Judeophobia and the Zionist Plot; With a Name Like Shermer . . .; Skeptic Part of Jewish Cabal; The Holocaust Lobby; I Have Not Now or Ever Been . . . ; Don't Print This; One Picture is Worth . . .; Not Sarcastic; The Wheat and the Chaff; Jewish Propaganda Quarterly; Some Skeptic You Are; A System Clone;

Shermer Responds: Candelabras, Jews, & an African-Greek-German-American

'Twas Brillig...Commentary

The Liquefying "Blood" of St. Januarius. Also: Prime-Time Quackery. By James Randi

Life After False Memory Syndrome-an Update

By Laura E. Pasley

Electronic Skepticism Head-on Collisions on the Information Highway.

By Fredric Rice

The Mattoon Phantom Gasser

Was the Famous Mass Hysteria Really a Mass Hoax?

By Willy Smith

Why Should Skeptics Understand Religion?

By Clayton J. Drees

Skeptical Perspectives

A Heretic-Scientist Among the Spiritualists Alfred Russel Wallace and 19th- Century Spiritualism-Part I.

By Michael Shermer

Is Raw Meat Conscious?

By Bernard Leikind

Authors and Contributors

Special Section: Pseudomedicine

Therapeutic Touch

Skeptics in Hand to Hand Combat Over the Latest New Age Health Fad.

By Linda A. Rosa

Homeopathy: A Position Statement by the National Council Against Health Fraud.

Edited by William Jarvis

Chasing Shadows on a Pitch-Black Wall Spiritual Belief Systems Compete as Alternatives to Scientific Health Care.

By Jack Raso

In Brief and In Review:

BOOKS in Brief

God's Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World. 1994.

By Christopher Toumey

A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. 1994.

By Steven Shapin

The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman.

By Jagdish Mehra.

History of Women in Science for Young People.

By Vivian Epstein

A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. 1993.

By Karen Armstrong

BOOKS In Review

The Audio Classics Series: Religion, Scriptures and Spirituality. Edited by Walter Harrelson and Mike Hassell.

Reviewed by Clayton J. Drees

Miracles, Conspiracies, & Skinheads: Pseudoscience and Pseudohistory at its Best: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, and Healing Cures. By Joe Nickell. Also: Skinhead Street Gangs. By Loren Christensen.

Reviewed by Peter Huston

Leftist Science & Skeptical Rhetoric Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt.

Reviewed by Jeffrey Shallit

The Thinker on the Edge of Forever Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry. By David Alexander.

Reviewed by Michael Shermer

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