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FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME

Special Section on the Mind; An Epidemic of Accusation: The Chaos of Witch Crazes and Their Modern Descendants; Recovered Memory Therapy and False Memory Syndrome; Misplaced Trust: A First Person Account of How My Therapist Created False Memories; Facilitated Communication: Mental Miracle or Slight of Hand?; The Illusion of Science in Psychiatry; Diagnoses Are Not Diseases: A Skeptical Analysis of Psychiatry

Epigones of Orgonomy: The Incredible History of William Reich and His Followers; Pseudo—Psycotherapy: UFO’s, Cloudbusters, Conspiracies, and Paranoia in William Reich’s Psychotherapy; Sex, Brains, and Hands: How Women and Men Think; Sun Goes Down in flames: The Jammal Ark Hoax; The Incredible Mysteries of Sun Pictures; Flood Myths and Sunken Arks: Who Needs to Believe in Noah’s Ark and Why?; How Thinking Goes Wrong; Skeptic Lite: Elvis Impersonators—Is It Genetics, Environment, or in the Stars?

Satanic Smoke; Geller Cutlery; Skeptical Thought Control; Elvis Called Me; The Science of Santa; Christianity Not Founded by a Jew; Scientific Ignorance and Arrogance; Freethinkers and Charismatic Paranoids; Debunking Ayn Rand; Rand Not an Absolutist?; Hanging on to the First Amendment; Holocaust Denial; Randi at Caltech; Creationists’ Latest Strategy Countered; Seti Program Ended; Should Science Be Censored?; Murder Blamed on Witchcraft; What Is a Humanist?; Supreme Court Denies Atheists

Books and Articles of Interest: Desperately Seeking Sanity: A Review of Gerald Holton’s Science and Anti-Science; 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