Vintage Skeptical Inquirer Magazine (Volume 39, No. 6, 2015 - Cover: The Man who Solved the Bermuda Triangle 'Mystery') by Kendrick Frazier (Editor)

From the Editor
The Man Who Sovled the Bermuda Triangle ‘Mystery’
Kendrick Frazier
News and Comment
Special Report
From N-Rays to EmDrives: When Does Science Become Pseudoscience?
David Koepsell
Special Report
Is the EmDrive Pseudoscience?
Leonard Tramiel
Investigative Files
Poltergeist Scribbler: The Bizarre Case of Matthew Manning
Joe Nickell
What has been called “one of the most extraordinary outbreaks of poltergeist phenomena” of the twentieth century began with an English schoolboy, aged eleven and a half years, Matthew Manning.
Notes on a Strange World
The Charlie Charlie Challenge
Massimo Polidoro
This is the latest web craze known as the “Charlie Charlie Challenge,” perhaps dating back to an ancient Mexican tradition, an experience that intrigues kids and scares adults. Through a sort of séance, some claim people can ask questions to some unseen entity that should be able to reply.
Psychic Vibrations
The Rendle-Sham Case: Phone and Phonier
Robert Sheaffer
Skeptical Inquiree
Beware Mesmer Thieves!
Benjamin Radford
The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Delusion: Looking Back after Forty Years
Larry Kusche
The man who solved the Bermuda Triangle “mystery” looks back after four decades on his investigations into the missing flight that started it all and the shoddy research, gullibility, and distortions that created this mystery.
Through Me, the Universe: A Stroll through the Curious Solipsism of Biocentrism
Dale Debakcsy
The Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming
James Lawrence Powell
In 2013–2014, only four of 69,604 publishing climate scientists rejected anthropogenic global warming. The consensus on anthropogenic global warming is not 97 percent, as is widely claimed; it is above 99.9 percent.
We Are All GMOs
Matan Shelomi
Increasing evidence that gene transfer across huge evolutionary distances is common in animals, including humans, provides a strong retort to the claim that GMOs are “unnatural.”
The Devil and the Details
Edouard Harris, Jérémie Harris
The Search for Negative Evidence
James McGaha, Joe Nickell
By their nature, paranormal claims depend not on positive but negative evidence, by which proponents attempt to use mysteries (“the unexplained”) to support their beliefs. In contrast, scientists seek to use positive evidence to solve mysteries.
Review
A Protopian View of Moral Progress
Daniel Grassam
A Review of The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity Toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom by Michael Shermer
Review
Unlocking the Treasures
David Kordahl
Review
On Her Majesty’s Secret Saucers
Robert Sheaffer
A Review of How UFO’s Conquered the World by David Clarke
Review
Memoir of an Accused Satanist
Mike Moran
Letters to the Editor
The Last Laugh
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)