Vintage Skeptical Inquirer Magazine (Volume 39, No. 5, 2015 - Cover: The Daedalus Sea Serpent Solved) by Kendrick Frazier (Editor)

From the Editor
Reason’ Topics and Real Science vs. Fake Mysteries
Kendrick Frazier
News & Comment
Conference Report
‘Reason for Change’: Quacks and Cranks, GMOs and Climate, Science and Philosophy
Kendrick Frazier
CFI Conference Covers It All
Special Report
The Pope’s Encyclical on Climate and the Planet: Will It Change the Debate?
Kendrick Frazier
Special Report
Is the Pope Catholic?
Kenneth R. Miller
Fringe Theories, Investigative Files
The Black Madonna: A Folkloristic and Iconographic Investigation
Joe Nickell
One of the most famous of true icons (traditional religious panel paintings) is the so-called Black Madonna of Czestochowa, Poland (Figure 1). Its notoriety was boosted when, following his election to the papacy, the “Polish Pope” John Paul II prayed before it on a visit in 1979. For an international History Channel series, Miracles Decoded, I was asked to look into the icon’s origins.
Psychic Vibrations
The ‘Roswell Slides’ Fiasco: UFOlogy’s Biggest Black Eye
Robert Sheaffer
Parapsychology, Skeptical Inquiree
Playing with Past Lives: The Virginia Boy and the Dead Marine
Benjamin Radford
Have you heard about this recent case of a young boy who says he lived a past life as a Marine? What do you make of it?
Special Essay
The Future of the Center for Inquiry
Ronald A. Lindsay
Alternative Medicine, Pseudoscience
‘Post-Materialist’ Science? A Smokescreen for Woo
Sadri Hassani
Pseudoscience has been rapidly gaining ground in the past few decades. Dietary supplements and homeopathic preparations, advertised by the disgraced Dr. Oz and his ilk, now constitute a multi-billion-dollar industry.
Cryptozoology
The 1848 ‘Enormous Serpent’ of the Daedalus Identified
Gary J. Galbreath
A famous sea serpent sighting has been an enduring mystery 
of the sea since 1848. However, new information suggests a solution.
Alternative Medicine
Encouraging Evidence-Free Enterprise: Business on a Bed of Sand
Brian D. Engler, Eugenie V. Mielczarek
The former National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine’s use of two U.S. government grant programs for small businesses is examined and found to lend legitimacy to the lucrative business of non-evidence-based medicine.
Forum
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)