Home : Skeptical Inquirer magazine

Volume 31, Number 3
May / June 2007

• Buy this back issue
• Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming
• Theatre of Science
• The Myth of Consistent Skepticism
• PEAR Lab Closes, Ending Decades of Psychic Research
• Sylvia Browne’s Biggest Blunder
• Deciphering Da Vinci’s Real Codes
• Debating Creationists

ARTICLES

Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming

Part 1

STUART D. JORDAN

Danger! Scientific Inquiry Hazard

ALAN J. SCOTT

Theatre of Science

RICHARD WISEMAN

The Myth of Consistent Skepticism

The Cautionary Case of Albert Einstein

TODD C. RINIOLO and LEE NISBET

COMMENT AND OPINION

PEAR Lab Closes, Ending Decades of Psychic Research

STANLEY JEFFERS

Snake-Oil Traders

EDZARD ERNST

Third Strike for Columbia University Prayer Study: Author Plagiarism

BRUCE FLAMM

SPECIAL REPORT

Secrets and Lies

MARY CARMICHAEL and BENJAMIN RADFORD

Columns

Editor's Note

A Warming Climate for Climate Warming

News and Comment

• IPCC Climate Report Shows ‘Unequivocal’ Warming, Reduces Uncertainties
• Baby, It’s Warm Outside: 2006 Warmest Year on Record in U.S.
• Randi’s Amazing Meeting Returns
• Celebrating Darwin Day with a New Play in L.A.
• Car Carma Car-tastrophe
• Sylvia Browne’s Biggest Blunder
• Sylvia Browne’s Year to Forget
• ‘Psychic’ Evans Acquitted on Appeal in Swindling Case
• More Signers of Declaration in Defense of Science & Secularism
• Philip Kitcher Awarded Inaugural $10,000 Prometheus Prize
• Ian Stevenson, Reincarnation Researcher, Dies at 88
• The Skeptic (U.K.) Celebrates 20 Years

INVESTIGATIVE FILES

Deciphering Da Vinci’s Real Codes

JOE NICKELL

THINKING ABOUT SCIENCE

Can There Be a Science of Free Will?

MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI

NOTES ON A STRANGE WORLD

The Devious Art of Improvising: Third and Final Lesson

MASSIMO POLIDORO

THE SKEPTICAL INQUIREE

Measuring Near-Death Experience

BENJAMIN RADFORD

NEW BOOKS

FORUM

Debating Creationists

CHARLES L. RULON

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

BOOK REVIEWS

Beyond Knowing: Mysteries and Messages of Death and Life from a Forensic Pathologist

By Janis Amatuzio, MD

JOE NICKELL

The Top Ten Myths about Evolution

By Cameron M. Smith and Charles Sullivan

KENNETH W. KRAUSE

Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science

By Jeff Meldrum

BENJAMIN RADFORD, MICHAEL R. DENNETT, MATT CROWLEY, and DAVID J. DAEGLING