Vintage Skeptical Inquirer Magazine (Volume 39, No. 3, 2015 - Cover: Medical Misinformation) by Kendrick Frazier (Editor)

News & Comment
Investigative Files
Monster Lookalikes: Reflections of a Paranatural Naturalist
Joe Nickell
Psychic Vibrations
Were Half of Recently Declassified UFO Reports CIA Flights?
Robert Sheaffer
Notes on a Strange World
Enter the Boy Wonder, Part 2 Randi vs. Geller: How the Giant Battle Began
Massimo Polidoro
The Science of Medicine
It’s Time for Science-Based Medicine
Steven Novella
In the pages of the Skeptical Inquirer and elsewhere in the skeptical literature, you can read about a seemingly endless array of snake oil remedies, dubious health claims, questionable practices, ineffective regulation, and shortcomings of mainstream medicine.
Science Watch
Diet-Heart: A Hypothesis in Crisis? Part 2: The Modern Macronutrient Wars Begin
Kenneth W. Krause
Skeptical Inquiree
Texas Monsters and the Chupacabra
Benjamin Radford
Alternative Medicine, Conspiracy Theories, Interview
Vaccines and the Anti-Vaccination Movement: An Interview with Dr. Paul Offit
Lindsay Beyerstein
In an interview with Lindsay Beyerstein on the Point of Inquiry podcast, Offit spoke about the early 2015 measles outbreak at Disneyland, the anti-vaccination movement, and the importance of vaccination.
Medical Misinformation
Bias in Reporting of Medical Research: How Dangerous Is It?
Morton E. Tavel
Medical Misinformation, Pseudoscience
The ‘Food Babe’: A Taste of Her Own Medicine
Mark Aaron Alsip
While “Food Babe” Vani Hari’s pseudoscience has been widely debunked by qualified doctors and scientists, a more sobering fact seems to have escaped everyone’s attention: one of America’s most notorious bloggers is earning sales commissions from products that contain the very same ingredients she says are dangerous.
Alternative Medicine, Medical Misinformation
WHO’s Strategy on Traditional and Complementary Medicine
Cees N. M. Rencken, Thomas P.C. Dorlo, Willem Betz
The World Health Organization once again advocates for implementing complementary and alternative medicine in national health services, jeopardizing global public health and evidence-based medicine.
Medical Misinformation
Science Sells Out: Advertising Traditional Chinese Medicine in Three Supplements
David H. Gorski
Medical Misinformation
Pesticides: Just How Bad Are They?
Harriet Hall
Scientific balance and objective assessments of evidence are necessary to avoid biased and misleading answers to concerns about pesticides.
Reams Urine & Saliva Testing: Don’t Waste Your Money
Thomas Patterson
Review
A Scientific Response to Chemophobia
Harriet Hall
Alternative Medicine, Review
Truth, Trouble, and Research Exposing Alt Med
Chris French
A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble by Edzard Ernst
Review
The Meaning of Consensus in Science
David Morrison
Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences: From Heresy to Truth by James Lawrence Powell
Review
A State of Many Mysteries
Susan Gerbic
Review
A State of Many Mysteries
Susan Gerbic
Mysterious New Mexico: Miracles, Magic, and Monsters in the Land of Enchantment by Benjamin Radford
Letters to the Editor
The Last Laugh

Condition: New, never read

Publication date ‏ : ‎ 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 70 pages
UNSPSC-Code : 55101506 (Printed publications)