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Vol. 21, No. 2, March/April 1997
- Buy this back issue
- Hale-Bopp Comet Madness
- An Astronomer's Personal Statement on UFOs
- The End of Science?
- Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions (book review)
Special Tribute
- The Darkened Cosmos: A Tribute to Carl Sagan
- One of the strongest and most eloquent voices for science and reason has been silenced. We present invited tributes from a number of Sagan's friends and colleagues, including: Richard Dawkins, Arthur C. Clarke, Martin Gardner, David Morrison, James Randi, Jill Tarter, Paul Kurtz, Christopher Chyba, Leon Lederman, and many others.
Articles
- Hale-Bopp Comet Madness
- Most of the excitement surrounding Hale-Bopp's approach has a legitimate scientific and popular basis, but other aspects of the "comet madness" are pseudoscientific and a glaring symptom of scientific illiteracy.
An Astronomer's Personal Statement on UFOs
Alan Hale - Some Systematic Biases of Everyday Judgment
- Skeptics have long thought that everyday judgment and reasoning are biased in predictable ways. Psychological research on the subject conducted during the past quarter century largely confirms these suspicions.
Thomas Gilovich - The End of Science?
- Why do many now view science as a failed ideology rather than as an epistemological ideal? Should science be viewed that way?
Theodore Schick Jr. - The Book of Predictions: Fifteen Years Later
- It is now possible to verify the accuracy of the first fifteen years of
predictions in this popular book.
Alan M. Tuerkheimer and Stuart A. Vyse - A Real Cool Con
- The defrosting trays that thaw frozen foods by "taking heat directly out of the air" are equally adept at taking money directly out of your pocket.
Robert L. Wolke
Columns
- Editor's note
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- Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
Farrakhan, Cabala, Baha'i, and 19 - Martin Gardner
- Investigative Files
Something to Cry About: The Case of the Weeping Icon - Joe Nickell
- Media Watch
Season of the Supernatural - C. Eugene Emery Jr.
- New Books
- Articles of Note
- Forum
- Articles of Note
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- Two Troubles with Science
- Ralph Estling
- I'm a Believer
- Steve Nadis
- Letters to the Editor
Book reviews
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Astrology Really Works!
by the Magi Society - Reviewed by Geoffrey Dean
- Witnessed: The True Story of the
Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions
by Budd Hopkins - Reviewed by Jeffrey B. King
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Something Hidden Behind the Ranges: A Himalayan Quest
by Daniel Taylor-Ide - Reviewed by Kenneth A. Sayers
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