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Volume 31, Number 1
January/February 2007

Editorial

It's CSI Now, Not CSICOP

KENDRICK FRAZIER and the Executive Council

New Directions for Skeptical Inquiry

PAUL KURTZ

ARTICLES

Man for the Cosmos:

Carl Sagan's Life and Legacy as Scientist, Teacher, and Skeptic

DAVID MORRISON

Do They Have Your Numb3r?

KENDRICK FRAZIER

The 'Vise Strategy' Undone:

Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District

BARBARA FORREST

Strange Visions

Haloes, Dust Storms, and Blood on the Walls

A. CHARLES CATANIA

Pep Talk

How to Get Rid of the Energy You Don't Need

WILLIAM H. BAARSCHERS

Mass Hysteria at Starpoint High

ROBERT E. BARTHOLOMEW and BENJAMIN RADFORD

SPECIAL REPORTS

World Trade Center Illness:

Manufactured Mass Hysteria

MICHAEL FUMENTO

New Report Casts Doubt on Gulf War Syndrome

BENJAMIN RADFORD

Comment and Opinion

The Art of Persuasion in Politics (and Science)

BENJAMIN WOLOZIN

Columns

Editor's Note

Men of the Cosmos

News and Comment

Energy Department Will End Most Polygraph Testing
Moscow Round Table Discusses False Science in Russia
Pluto/Planet Roundtable Now Online
UCS Releases Science Idol Calendar
Michigan Supports Evolution, Rejects ID for Science Classes

NOTES OF A FRINGE WATCHER

'Dr.' Bearden's Vacuum Energy

MARTIN GARDNER

INVESTIGATIVE FILES

Mysterious Entities of the Pacific Northwest, Part I

JOE NICKELL

THINKING ABOUT SCIENCE

Evolutionary Epistemology, Anyone?

MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI

NOTES ON A STRANGE WORLD

The Devious Art of Improvising, Lesson Two

MASSIMO POLIDORO

PSYCHIC VIBRATIONS

The Flashlight of the Gods

ROBERT SHEAFFER

THE SKEPTICAL INQUIREE

Soul Scales