Vintage Skeptical Inquirer Magazine (Volume 39, No. 2, 2015 - Cover: Evolution) by Kendrick Frazier (Editor)

Evolution
March / April 2015
Volume 39, No. 2

From the Editor
A Few Changes, and with Randi Down Under
Kendrick Frazier
News and Comment
Commentary
Organized Skepticism: Four Decades … and Today
Kendrick Frazier
Just over forty years ago, the world was awash in unexamined paranormalism. But a scientific response to all the nonsense was beginning to brew.
Special Report
The Case of Gorter v. SKEPP: Court Says: ‘Quack’ Can Be Called ‘Quack’ Again
Willem Betz
Special Report
Africa’s Satanic Panic
Marc E. Fitch
Martin Gardner Centennial
The Great Stone Face and Other Nonmysteries
Martin Gardner
Investigative Files
The New Pope Saints
Joe Nickell
On April 27, 2014, two former popes—John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli, 1881–1963) and John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla, 1920–2005)—were made saints of the Roman Catholic Church. But how are saints created?
Psychic Vibrations
Scientist Photographs Plastic Alien at Area 51
Robert Sheaffer
Notes on a Strange World
Enter the Boy Wonder, Part 1 Randi vs. Geller: How the Giant Battle Began
Massimo Polidoro
Skeptical Inquiree
The Skepticism of Clara Peller
Benjamin Radford
Interview
Behind the Magic: An Interview with James Randi
Kylie Sturgess
An eighty-six-year-old skeptic, secular humanist, and atheist, Randi has investigated paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims for much of his career.
When Don’t the Highly Educated Believe in Evolution? The Bible Believers Effect
Charles S. Reichardt, Ian A. Saari
Among those who believe the Bible is the word of God, those with more formal education are less likely to believe in human evolution than those with less education.
Evolution
Evolution: The Big and the Small of It
Edouard Harris, Jérémie Harris
Conspiracy Theories
Alien Lights? At Phoenix, Stephenville, and Elsewhere: A Postmortem
James McGaha, Joe Nickell
Investigations show that famous nighttime “alien light” sightings were all due to objects in the sky, but not the extraterrestrial spacecraft UFO enthusiasts imagined.
Yes, But How Do You Explain This?
Stephen Carey
Review
Skeptical Psychology between Two Covers
Benjamin Radford
Review
Conspiracy Theories throughout American History
Peter Huston
Review
When Genealogy Gets Distorted
Kristin E. Harley
Letters to the Editor
The Last Laugh

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Publication date ‏ : ‎ 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 66 pages
UNSPSC-Code : 55101506 (Printed publications)