Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

Heaven's Gate: The UFO Cult of Bo and Peep
Martin Gardner

The Two: A Fantasy-Assessment Biography
Joe Nickell

Can We Prevent Cult Deaths?
Thomas R. Casten

Art Bell, Heaven's Gate, and Journalistic Integrity
Thomas C. Genoni Jr.

A Heaven's Gate Recruiting Session in Colorado

Interview with Kal Korff

Son of Originator of `Alien Autopsy' Story Casts Doubt on Father's Credibility
Timothy Spencer Carr

Examining the Amazing Free-Energy Claims of Dennis Lee
Hundreds of investors believed Dennis Lee's claim of a free-energy machine. A closer look is in order.
Eric Krieg

Are Heat Pumps the Key to Free Energy?
Tom Napier

Chiropractic: Science and Antiscience and Pseudoscience Side by Side
Now a century old, chiropractic is a continuing enigma partly because of its diverse intellectual and anti-intellectual traditions.
Joseph C. Keating Jr.

Secrets of a Russian Psychic
Is there a rational explanation for Alla Vinogradova's extraordinary ability to move objects without touching them? A research study was conducted and an interesting and counterintuitive explanation found. However, in the process it was also found that closer cooperation with serious parapsychology is needed.
Massimo Polidoro

News and Comment

• Anachronistic Danger Sign in `Alien Autopsy'
• The Carl Sagan Memorial Service
• Randi Foundation Announces `Pigasus' Awards
• Quebec's Lieutenant-Governor Confers with Dead
• Library Journal's `Best Sci-Tech Books'

CSICOP News

• Center for Inquiry Institute Launches Three-Year Academic Program
• SI Announces Release of The UFO Invasion

New Books

Articles of Note

Forum

• Cranes and Skyhooks
  Ralph Estling

• The Filling of Scholarly Vacuums
  George Englebretsen

Letters to the Editor

Multiple Identities and False Memories
by Nicholas P. Spanos

Robert A. Baker

Generation X Goes to College
by Peter Sacks

Henry Bauer

Einstein, History, and Other Passions
by Gerald Holton

Daniel Stern

Conjuring Science
by Christopher P. Toumey

Edward Slowik