{"product_id":"vintage-skeptical-inquirer-magazine-volume-39-no-5-2015-cover-the-daedalus-sea-serpent-solved-by-kendrick-frazier-editor","title":"Vintage Skeptical Inquirer Magazine (Volume 39, No. 5, 2015 - Cover: The Daedalus Sea Serpent Solved) by Kendrick Frazier (Editor)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"o-block__description s-content\"\u003eThe Daedalus Sea Serpent Solved\u003cbr\u003eSeptember \/ October 2015\u003cbr\u003eVolume 39, No. 5\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-block__description s-content\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-block__text\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-block__description s-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Editor\u003cbr\u003eReason’ Topics and Real Science vs. Fake Mysteries\u003cbr\u003eKendrick Frazier\u003cbr\u003eNews \u0026amp; Comment\u003cbr\u003eConference Report\u003cbr\u003e‘Reason for Change’: Quacks and Cranks, GMOs and Climate, Science and Philosophy\u003cbr\u003eKendrick Frazier\u003cbr\u003eCFI Conference Covers It All\u003cbr\u003eSpecial Report\u003cbr\u003eThe Pope’s Encyclical on Climate and the Planet: Will It Change the Debate?\u003cbr\u003eKendrick Frazier\u003cbr\u003eSpecial Report\u003cbr\u003eIs the Pope Catholic?\u003cbr\u003eKenneth R. Miller\u003cbr\u003eFringe Theories, Investigative Files\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Madonna: A Folkloristic and Iconographic Investigation\u003cbr\u003eJoe Nickell\u003cbr\u003eOne 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.\u003cbr\u003ePsychic Vibrations\u003cbr\u003eThe ‘Roswell Slides’ Fiasco: UFOlogy’s Biggest Black Eye\u003cbr\u003eRobert Sheaffer\u003cbr\u003eParapsychology, Skeptical Inquiree\u003cbr\u003ePlaying with Past Lives: The Virginia Boy and the Dead Marine\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Radford\u003cbr\u003eHave 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?\u003cbr\u003eSpecial Essay\u003cbr\u003eThe Future of the Center for Inquiry\u003cbr\u003eRonald A. Lindsay\u003cbr\u003eAlternative Medicine, Pseudoscience\u003cbr\u003e‘Post-Materialist’ Science? A Smokescreen for Woo\u003cbr\u003eSadri Hassani\u003cbr\u003ePseudoscience 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.\u003cbr\u003eCryptozoology\u003cbr\u003eThe 1848 ‘Enormous Serpent’ of the Daedalus Identified\u003cbr\u003eGary J. Galbreath\u003cbr\u003eA famous sea serpent sighting has been an enduring mystery \u2028of the sea since 1848. However, new information suggests a solution.\u003cbr\u003eAlternative Medicine\u003cbr\u003eEncouraging Evidence-Free Enterprise: Business on a Bed of Sand\u003cbr\u003eBrian D. Engler, Eugenie V. Mielczarek\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbrp\u003eForum\u003cbr\u003eIs Wikipedia a Conspiracy? Common Myths Explained\u003cbr\u003eSusan Gerbic\u003cbr\u003eAllow 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eForum\u003cbr\u003eCorrelations: How Do We Ever Establish Definite Causation?\u003cbr\u003eMorton E. Tavel\u003cbr\u003eReview\u003cbr\u003eThe Case of the Haunting Handprints\u003cbr\u003eJoe Nickell\u003cbr\u003eReview\u003cbr\u003eA Textbook Case in Georgia Remembered\u003cbr\u003eGlenn Branch\u003cbr\u003eReview\u003cbr\u003eWorld-Changing Genius, Creativity, and Teamwork\u003cbr\u003eKendrick Frazier\u003cbr\u003eLetters to the Editor\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Laugh\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/brp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New, never read\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication date ‏ : ‎ 2015\u003cbr\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎ English\u003cbr\u003ePrint length ‏ : ‎ 66 pages\u003cbr\u003eUNSPSC-Code : 55101506 (Printed publications)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Millennium Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47960872386725,"sku":"SKEPTICALINQUIRER39.5","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/9383\/1077\/files\/0000_e67c4779-c9be-4c5a-a3f1-910dc2834c10.jpg?v=1782959627","url":"https:\/\/www.thesurgeonsknots.com\/products\/vintage-skeptical-inquirer-magazine-volume-39-no-5-2015-cover-the-daedalus-sea-serpent-solved-by-kendrick-frazier-editor","provider":"the-surgeon's-knots","version":"1.0","type":"link"}