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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Skeptic 26.4.
PROMOTING SCIENCE & CRITICAL THINKING
SKEPTIC MAGAZINE, AVAILABLE IN PRINT & DIGITAL FORMATSA leading international publication in the realm of skeptical inquiry, Skeptic magazine examines extraordinary claims and revolutionary id...
SKEP DOC
Purveyors of so-called Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) don’t have any credible scientific evidence. If they did, their treatments would not be called “alternative” but would have been a...
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSPIRACIES
Many conspiracies are seasonal. Some revolve around a particular date like 9/11 or 11/22. Some actually hinge upon the season. Each winter, a few people think there’s something wrong with the snow, ...
“YOU CAN’T SAY THAT!”
Note: A shorter version of this essay was published in the Chronicle of Higher Education Review on September 15, 2021. Many years ago, as a social psychologist specializing in gender equity, I was i...
OPERATION CRYSTAL BALL
Jamy Ian Swiss
Photo by Michael Bulbenko
In 2003 I received a phone call from a U.S. Attorney who had undertaken a criminal investigation of a “talkto-the-dead” medium. It ...
VEXED by the UN-VAXXED
“I’ve been reading…” Across Most Subgroups, at Least Half Report Receiving a COVID-19 Vaccine That was the response I received from one of the staffers of SKEPTIC magazine when I asked why she wasn...