Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

Vol. 19, No. 4, July/August 1995

• Buy this back issue
• The Roswell Incident and Project Mogul
• Recovered Memories Cross the Oceans

Special Report

The Roswell Incident and Project Mogul
Dave Thomas

A Project Mogul scientist provides important new evidence of links.

Articles

How to Sell a Pseudoscience
Anthony Pratkanis

Want your own pseudoscience? Here are nine effective persuasion tactics for selling all sorts of flimflam.

Rumors, Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, and National Obsessions
John Allen Paulos

When facts are missing from news reports, individuals and societies fill in the gaps with their own fantasies.

Rose Mackenberg: Crusader Against Spiritualist Fraud
Loren Pankratz

A remarkable woman joined forces with Houdini in exposing psychic frauds. After his death she carried on the campaign for another 20 years.

Did the Moon Sink the Titanic?
Richard L. Branham, Jr.

Do certain planetary alignments induce maritime disasters? Does the moon play a nefarious role? It seems not.

Bach Flower Remedies: Time to Stop Smelling the Flowers?
Lynn Mccutcheon

Are the flower remedies for psychological ailments real, or are they nothing more than pretty placebos?

Slides in Hell
Clifford A. Pickover

An instructive yet diabolical exercise in probability--for students, teachers, and skeptics of all ages. Try it at your own risk.

Book Reviews

The Myth of Repressed Memory by Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham
Reviewed by Mark W. Durm

Making Monsters by Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters
Reviewed by Ken Kurson

The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
Reviewed by Lisa Shepherd

Hidden Memories by Robert A. Baker
Reviewed by Terence Hines

New Books

Articles of Note

Letters to the Editor

Notes of a Fringe-Watcher

Health Watch

Psychic vibrations

Media Watch

Follow-Up

Forum

CSICOP News

• Nickell Joins CSICOP Staff
• SI Editor Receives Humanist Award
• European Skeptics Meet in Germany

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