Skeptical Inquirer is the official journal of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. On a bimonthly basis, Skeptical Inquirer publishes critical scientific evaluations of paranormal and fringe-science claims and informed discussion of all relevant issues.
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In addition to in-depth feature articles, special reports, up to date news and comment, book reviews and investigations on a wide variety of topics, Skeptical Inquirer has a stellar stable of regular columnists including Joe Nickell (“Investigative Files”), Massimo Polidoro (“Notes on a Strange World”), Massimo Pigluicci (“Thinking About Science”), Robert Sheaffer (“Psychic Vibrations”), and SI managing editor Benjamin Radford's reader-driven (“The Skeptical Inquiree”).
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Skeptical Inquirer July/August 2018.
Myths Driving Wildlife Extinction
[ FROM THE EDITOR
We were on a walking trek in wilderness Tanzania. Our guide, W Thad, had obtained a special license for us to trek and camp in a part of the eastern Serengeti miles from any r...
UFO over Arizona Likely an IFO
In March 2018, a month after the fact, the FAA released a radio broadcast of what CBS News called an “out-ofthis-world incident.” Actually, the UFO, seen by two separate civil aviation pilots flying ...
Woomonger Radio Host Art Bell Dies at Seventy-Two
Longtime radio talk show host and paranormal promoter Art Bell died on April 13, 2018, at the age of seventy-two at his home in Pahrump, Nevada. Bell achieved national prominence for Coast to Coast, ...