Vintage Skeptical Inquirer Magazine (Volume 39, No. 4, 2015 - Cover: Celebrity Scientists) by Kendrick Frazier (Editor)

From the Editor
Today’s Celebrity Scientists
Kendrick Frazier
News and Comment
Investigative Files
Dillinger’s Ghost
Joe Nickell
Psychic Vibrations
UFO Conspiracies at the UFO Congress
Robert Sheaffer
Notes on a Strange World, Unexplained Mysteries
The Mystery of TJIPETIR
Massimo Polidoro
Mysterious rectangular rubber-like blocks, with the enigmatic word TJIPETIR engraved into them, have been washing up for the past few years on the beaches of northern Europe.
Science Watch
Diet-Heart: A Hypothesis in Crisis? Part 3: The Modern Macronutriet War Rages On
Kenneth W. Krause
Skeptical Inquiree
A Skeptic’s Guide to Ethical and Effective Curse Removal
Benjamin Radford
Cryptozoology, Special Report
No Reason to Believe That Sykes’s Yeti-Bear Cryptid Exists
Eliécer E. Gutiérrez, Ronald H. Pine
Sykes, named “Cryptozoologist of the Year 2013” according to the blog CryptoZooNews, seems to be gaining more and more prominence and respect among cryptozoologists. However, certain of his pronouncements seem highly dubious to his fellow scientists; he has reached some embarrassingly incorrect conclusions, and a number of his statements as to his credentials are thought to be misleading.
Alternative Medicine, Commentary
Homeopathy ‘Unsupported, Ineffective, Dangerous’: CFI Testimony to FDA
Michael De Dora
The full text of invited testimony by the Center for Inquiry at the April 20, 2015, hearing of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on “Homeopathic Product Regulation: Evaluating the FDA’s Regulatory Framework After a Quarter-Century.”
A Brief History of Scientific Celebrity
Declan Fahy
Science is personified by a handful of articulate, media-savvy scientists who stimulate new thinking, 
drive scientific controversies, enhance public understanding, mobilize social movements, 
and shape policy. To millions, these scientific celebrities are the public face of science.
Parapsychology
Covert Cognition: My So-Called Near-Death Experience
Stephanie Savage
A skeptic sees no light at the end of the tunnel when she falls into a six-week coma and nearly dies.
ADVERLYING: Disliking Advertising from an Informed Perspective
Steve Cuno
Some accusations levied against advertising are undeserved. But then, some are deserved, though perhaps not in ways you may have heard or assumed. Meanwhile, not a few bad apples engage in a heinous advertising tactic that goes largely unnoticed.
Do We Really Want to Believe in UFOs?
Klaus Brasch
Treemonisha: Scott Joplin’s Skeptical Black Opera
Bruce A. Thyer
Pseudoscience, Review
The Return of Facilitated Communication
Terence Hines
Review of The Horse That Won’t Go Away: Clever Hans, Facilitated Communication, and the Need for Clear Thinking by Thomas E. Heinzen, Scott O. Lilienfeld, and Susan A. Nolan
Review
Skepticism through Stick Figures
Russ Dobler
Review
Psychology and Psychotherapy: How Much Is Evidence-Based?
Harriet Hall
Review
At Last a Photo of the Soul?
Joe Nickell
Letters to the Editor
The Last LaughForum
Is Wikipedia a Conspiracy? Common Myths Explained
Susan Gerbic
Allow me to set the record straight. First off, Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that is trying to be the repository of all knowledge; it is not Tumbler or Reddit or some other social network. Wikipedia has rules. Some of them are open to interpretation a bit, but for the most part the rules are discussed within the community of editors and usually enforced evenly.

Forum
Correlations: How Do We Ever Establish Definite Causation?
Morton E. Tavel
Review
The Case of the Haunting Handprints
Joe Nickell
Review
A Textbook Case in Georgia Remembered
Glenn Branch
Review
World-Changing Genius, Creativity, and Teamwork
Kendrick Frazier
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)