SKEPTICAL REFERENCES **ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN SI 13.2:118 NS 1592/3 SI 21.2:51 Review of "Something hidden behind the range" (D Taylor-Ide) **ABORTION Freethinker 117.4:10 Sanctioned by the Bible Free Inquiry 18.2:9 "Pro-life" killings **ACUPUNCTURE / ACUPRESSURE Skeptic 6.1:18 Bands of Hope Skeptic 6.6:18 Quackupuncture (H B Gibson) NS 62.902 NS 63.912 NS 63.915 Electric stimulation as painkiller NS 73.1033 NS 88.1229 NS 1575 Acupuncture for vets NS 1744 "Balls of fire" in Science Museum catalogue Laser Roundup 22 Basis Jan 1989 Skeptic 8.6: Acupuncture: elusive or illusory? (Ian Johnson) SI 22.2:5 NIH and SRAM dispute validity, efficacy Briefs 7.4:11 Criticism of NIH promotion of acupuncture SI 23.2:15 Acupressure and reflexology (Martin Gardner) **AIRSHIPS Skeptic 11.3:10 Britain's Zeppelin hysteria: the UFOs of 1912-13 **ALPHA BRAINWAVES SI 10.1:42 (Beyerstein) **ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE SI 6.4:14 Sclerology: study of red lines in the eye SI 6.4:60 Hines reviews "Psycles" SI 10.1:154 Psychopathology of fringe medicine (Sabbagh) SI 10.4:359 Review of "Examining Holistic Medicine" SI 11.1:44 Folk remedies and belief-systems SI 12.1:47 Chiropractic SI 12.1:56 Homeopathy SI 12.1:63 The BMA Report on Alternative Medicine SI 12.1:70 Quackery SI 12.4:444 Alternative practitioners SI 13.1:22 Albert Schweitzer Prize SI 16.3:254 Ayurvedic medicine - JAMA hoodwinked Skeptic 5.6:20 The struggle for recognition (Wim Betz) Skeptic 6.1:18 Bands of Hope Skeptic 6.6:18 Quackupuncture (H B Gibson) Skeptic 7.3:5 Evening primrose for PMT NS 62.902 Acupuncture NS 63.912 Acupuncture NS 63.915 ELectric stimulation as painkiller NS 71.1017 Biofeedback NS 73.1033 Acupuncture NS 88.1229 Acupuncture NS 97.1341 Fringe medicine NS 1566 Ginseng NS 1575 Acupuncture for vets NS 1642 Chinese herbal medicines NS 1744 "Balls of fire" in Science Museum catalogue NS 1775 "Stress" NS 1816 Power lines and cancer Briefs 2.4:5 Clinical ecology (Barrett) Briefs 3.3:8 Quackery (Barrett) Laser Roundup 18 Quackery and health fraud (Jarvis) Laser Roundup 22 Acupuncture Basis Jan 1989 SI 18.2:125 European Skeptics Conference at Keele SI 18.2:152 Electromagnetic field cancer scares Skeptic 8.6:6 Thurstan Brewin Skeptic 8.6:10 Acupuncture: elusive or illusory? (Ian Johnson) Skeptic 8.6:12 Qigong: Chinese pseudoscience (Alcock) Skeptic 9.6:4 Royal jelly warnings on toxicity Skeptic 9.6:18 Patent medicines SI 20.4:15 Pentagon grant funds alternative health study SI 20.4:18 Traditional medicine and pseudoscience in China SI 20.4:39 Alternative health education and pseudocredentialing (Raso) SI 21.5:24 Alternative medicine and the laws of physics SI 21.5:29 Why bogus therapies seem to work (Barry Beyerstein) SI 21.5:35 Inconsistencies and errors in alt med (Wallace Sampson) SI 21.5:39 Pseudoscience in alternative medicine SI 21.5:44 Shark cartilage SI 21.5:49 Medical school faith healing SI 21.5:50 "Nutrition Forum" (anti-quackery newsletter) SI 21.5:51 "The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine" Skeptic 11.2:12 Ginseng Freethinker 118.1:11 Kidology and the modern witchdoctors NS 2130:49 Poor research (Edzard Ernst) Briefs 7.4:4 Observations of a lexicographer (Jack Raso) Briefs 7.4:11 Criticism of NIH promotion of acupuncture SI 22.5:12 Folk beliefs may increase cancer deaths SI 22.5:14 Temple University (Martin Gardner) NS 2148:18 Pressure on health authorities to test alternative treatments Skeptic 11.4: 20 A philosopher's view SI 22.6:9 Flawed studies SI 23.1:58 Risks of untested and unregulated remedies SI 23.2:8 Goggle therapy SI 23.3:13 Urine therapy (Martin Gardner) **AMITYVILLE SI 2.2:94 Review by Robert Morris **ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS SI 2.2:116 Review of "The 12th Planet" SI 10.1:170 Review by Feder SI 11.1:61 Noah's Ark and ancient astronauts Laser Roundup 63 Interview with Gerald Larue **ANIMALS SI 9.3:276 Animal communication SI 10.4:314 Clever Hans (Sebeok) SI 11.2:217 Animal language (letters) LASER 3.3:10 Sunny the wonder dog **ANOMALIES SI 18.5:516 Phenomena in Kazakhstan **ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE SI 15.2:128 Tipler and the omega point theory SI 23.4: Anthropic design (Stenger) **ANTHROPOLOGY SI 2.2:62 Ancient inscriptions and early man SI 2.2:108 Review of "Extrasensory Archeology" NS 1829 Black Egyptians etc Briefs 2.4:1 The aquatic ape theory SI 20.2:53 Afro-American contribution to mathematics AmSkeptic 7.1:9 Kennewick man **ANTHROPOSOPHY Freethinker 117.6:5 **APPLIED KINESIOLOGY SI 15.1:40 SI 15.3:322 (letters) **ARCHEOLOGY SI 2.2:104 Review of "Psychic Archeology" SI 2.2:108 Review of "Extrasensory Ecology" SI 4.4:32 Psychic Archeology (Feder) SI 5.3:44 Barry Fell SI 6.2:74 A rejoinder by Barry Fell SI 9.4:364 'Lucy' out of context SI 15.4:386 Archeological dowsing SI 16.2:212 (letters) SI 17.1:106 David Fisher (letter) Skeptic 8.5:6 Fantastic Archeology SI 20.3:40 Review of "Cult Archeology and Creationism SI 22.6:26 Gaps in the fossil record SI 23.2:33 Dowsing and archeology SI 23.2:64 Fossil gaps (leetters) **AROMATHERAPY SI 20.3:35 Lynn McCutcheon **ASIMOV, Isaac SI 3.3:58 Asimov's Corollary SI 5.2:42 Science and theology SI 10.3:212 The Perennial Fringe SI 17.1:30 A celebration of Isaac Asimov **ASKE Skeptic 11.1: 11 Birth of the Association for Skeptical Enquiry Briefs 8.1:7 the Association for Skeptical Enquiry **ASTEROIDS SI 20.5: 8 "Skepticus" named for CSICOP SI 20.5: 8 "Kurtz" named in honour of Paul Kurtz **ASTROLOGY Zetetic 1.2:49 Sun sign Zetetic 2.1:62 SI 2.2:118 Gauquelin reviews two books SI 3.1:17 An empirical test of popular astrology by Bastedo SI 3.3:70 Gauquelin on Rawlins SI 4.4:58 Mars effect: Gauquelin responds SI 4.4:62 Rejoinder by Kurtz, Zelen, and Abel SI 5.2:34 Response to National Enquirer Astrology study SI 5.3:33 The extroversion-introversion astrological effect SI 6.1:29 A controlled test of horoscopes SI 6.1:32 Tests of planetary position and radio disturbances SI 6.2:58 Rawlins on the Mars effect, and rejoinders SI 6.2:76 Gauquelin on the the Mars Effect SI 6.3:57 Gauquelin on the zodiac and personality SI 6.4:30 Radio disturbances and planetary positions SI 7.1:2 The Soviet-Argentine UGO blitz SI 7.3:65 Kurtz reviews Eysenck and Nias SI 7.3:77 Reappraisal of the Mars Effect SI 9.3:194 Newspaper disclaimers SI 9.3:210 Scientific tests SI 9.4:327 The Guardian astrology test (Dean et al) SI 9.4:339 Forecasts and the commodity market SI 10.1:183 First horoscope column (Sunday Express 1930) SI 10.3:194 Double-blind test in Nature SI 11.2:166 Part 1 (Dean) SI 11.3:257 Part 2 (Dean) SI 11.4:418 Dean and critics SI 12.2:126 German astrology test SI 12.2:192 Jung SI 12.2:221 Astrology protocol SI 12.3:290 Doomsday predictions SI 13.1:3 Astrology and the presidency SI 13.2:129 Russia SI 13.2:215 Jet-ology SI 13.3:329 President Bush (letters) SI 14.3:228 Astrology in the White House SI 14.3:231 Sustituting false horoscopes in a newspaper SI 15.2:166 A test of the Barnum Effect SI 16.2:150 Update on the Mars Effect (Ertel) SI 16.2:161 Kurtz replies to Ertel SI 16.4:439 Questioning the Mars Effect (letters) SI 17.1:220 The Mars Effect: Ertel replies SI 17.4:451 Mars effect (letter) SI 18.2:42 Dean attacks two new books Skeptic 2.3:10 Kurtz on Gauquelin and the Mars Effect Skeptic 2.4:14 Stephen Moreton on comparative astrology Skeptic 2.5:17 Gauquelin (Anthony Garrett) Skeptic 2.6:25 Anthony Garrett reviews Percy Seymour Skeptic 4.3:9 Anthony Garrett Skeptic 4.3:12 Astrology and the computer age Skeptic 4.3:27 Month of birth and class in school Skeptic 4.6:25 Anthony Garrett reviews Percy Seymour Skeptic 5.2:19 Companies using horoscopes (Mike Hutchinson) NS 67.966 Anti astrology NS 68.972 Gauquelin hits back NS 69.989 Gauquelin NS 92.1277 Gauquelin and CSICOP NS 92.1287 Gauquelin NS 93.1292 Kurtz on Gauquelin NS 1430 NS 1596 Horoscopes and statistics NS 1612 Henbest reviews Percy Seymour NS 1613 Science and horoscopes NS 1449 "Real" astrology NS 1713 Birth patterns changing NS 1753 Why horoscopes are popular NS 1759 Minitel and astrology queries Briefs 2.4:12 Top European astrologers fail test Laser 4.4:16 Nancy Reagan and astrology Skeptic 8.3:4 Autumn versus summer babies SI 19.1:4 Summary of Gauquelin SI 20.6:43 Some truths about the constellations SI 21.2: 46 SI 21.2:46 Geoffrey Dean reviews "Astrology really works!" Skeptic 11.1:6 French Committee of Skeptics test the Mars Effect SI 21.6:5 Life magazine's view SI 21.6:25 The Mars effect in retrospect (J W Nienhuys) SI 22.4:59 Dissenting from J W Nienhuys' "Retrospect" (Ertel and Irving) SI 22.4:60 Responding to Ertel (J W Nienhuys) Skeptic 11.4:5 Does astrology work? SI 23.2:68 Arguments about astrology (letters) **ASTRONOMY SI 6.4:2 Gribbin and Plagemann's Jupiter Effect SI 7.1:66 Review of "The Jupiter Effect Reconsidered" NS 1705 Astronomers and pathological science LASER ROUNDUP 38 The star of Bethlehem SI 20.6:43 Some truths about the constellations SI 21.2:23 Hale-Bopp comet SI 21.2:25 Hale-Bopp comet madness SI 21.3:22 Cosmic impacts Briefs 8.1:9 Cosmic impacts (Robert Baker) SI 22.4:16 Near-earth objects: Monsters of Doom? Free Inquiry 18.4:48 The Bible and astronomy **ATLANTIS SI 18.2:218 Plato's myth (letter) **AURAS SI 14.4:403 SI 15.4:402 Dean SI 16.2:216 (letters) Skeptic 10.4:19 Robert Todd Carroll **AYURVEDIC MEDICINE SI 16.3:254 JAMA hoodwinked **BACH FLOWER REMEDIES SI 19.4:33 **BAHAIS SI 21.2:16 Nartin Gardner **BALL LIGHTNING Skeptic 6.4:10 Frank Chambers Skeptic 6.6:12 Steuart Campbell NS 66.952 NS 69.989 NS 70.996 NS 72.1032 NS 89.1235 Fireballs and UFOs NS 1761 Ball lightning in microwaves NS 1865 **BATTERY OF BAGHDAD SI 20.3:31 Gerhard Eggert **BEETHOVEN'S BABIES Briefs 8.4:4 Exposing babies to classical music to raise intelligence **BERLITZ, Charles Zetetic 2.1:93 Reviewed by Kusche and Klass SI 4.1:58 Kusche reviews "The Philadelphia Experiment" SI 5.3:58 Sheaffer reviews "The Roswell Incident" **BERMUDA TRIANGLE Zetetic 2.1:36 Kusche Zetetic 2.1:93 Kusch and Klass review Berlitz SI 6.1:42 Twelve supposed incidents investigated SI 6.4:59 Review of Kusche's "Disappearance of Flight 19" NS 75.1060 NS 77.1093 SI 21.2:23 Methane gas bubbles **BIBLE CODE SI 21.6:30 "Hidden messages" in the bible SI 22.2:57 Bible-code developments SI 22.2:64 Debunking the Bible code (letters) Briefs 7.4:10 The Bard Code SI 22.6:16 Tolstoy predicts basketball result **BIG BANG SI 16.4:357 Gardner SI 16.4:412 Stenger Free Inquiry 18.2:35 Big bang and atheism **BIGFOOT SI 6.2:2 The ice creature SI 6.4:76 The ice creature SI 7.1:8 Hoaxer owns up SI 13.3:264 SI 13.3:273 Pore structure SI 14.1:102 (letters) SI 14.2:219 SI 18.5:498 Investigation of the cast of a footprint SI 18.5:528 Review of "Big Footprints" SI 23.3:20 Bigfoot's screen test SI 23.3:26 Tracking Bigfoot on the Internet AmSkeptic 7.1:11 Bigfoot busted by buffs **BIOFEEDBACK NS 71.1017 Biofeedback **BIORHYTHMS SI 2.2:16 Plane and car accidents SI 2.2:40 SI 3.1:63 Randi reviews Gittelson SI 8.3:286 SI 8.4:302 Freud and Fliess (Gardner) SI 14.4:410 Biorhythms and the timing of death SI 15.1:75 Biological rhythms versus biorhythms NS 85.1199 NS 1466 The pineal gland Psychological Reports 1998, 83, 19-64 (reprint): Terence Hines **BISHOP, Washington Irving Skeptic 6.5:17 The man who died twice (Koval) **BLAVATSKY, Madame Freethinker 117.6:5 Review of "Madame Blavatsky's Baboon" AmSkeptic 6.4:88 Review of "Madame Blavatsky's Baboon" **BOOKS AND ARTICLES REVIEWED SI 19.2:50 "How to think about weird things" (Schick and Vaughn) SI 19.2:52 Disputing Viking navigation by polarized skylight SI 18.3:296 Bad Science" (Gary Taubes) [cold fusion] SI 18.3:306 "The Sorcerer of Kings" (Gordon Stein) [Daniel Home] SI 19.1:50 "House of Cards" (Robyn M Dawes) SI 19.1:54 "Celestine Prophecy" (Paul Redfield) SI 19.2:44 "Higher Superstition" (P R Gross & Norman Levitt) Skeptic 9.2:26 "Guidelines for testing psychics" (Wiseman) SI 20.2:46 "Radical Behaviorism" (Mecca Chiesa) SI 20.2:49 "Cosmic Relief" (Connie L Schmidt) SI 20.5:65 "Wordplay" (John Langdon. Harcourt-Brace) SI 20.6:49 "Jeopardy in the Courtroom" by Ceci and Bruck SI 20.6:52 "Test your psychic powers" by Blackmore and Hart-Davis SI 21.2:46 Geoffrey Dean reviews "Astrology really works!" SI 21.2:49 "Witnessed" (Budd Hopkins) Briefs 7.1:2 Robert Baker reviews Strieber's "The Secret School" SI 21.3:14 Martin Gardner reviews Courtney Brown's "Cosmic Voyage" SI 21.3:44 James Rotton: review of "How the moon affects you" Freethinker 117.6:5 Madame Blavatsky's Baboon (Peter Washington) SI 21.5:55 "Scams from the great beyond" (Peter Huston) SI 21.5:50 "Nutrition Forum" (anti-quackery newsletter) SI 21.5:51 "Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine" (journal) SI 21.5:53 Robert Baker reviews "In Search of Light" (Blackmore) SI 21.5:64 William Jarvis on Jeane Dixon (letter) SI 22.1:56 "Critical Thinking for Social Workers" (L Gibbs and E Gambrill) SI 22.2:52 "The day after Roswell" (Philip J Corso & W J Birnes) **BRAIN SI 17.4:380 The right hemisphere Skeptic 10.2: 17 The myth of 10% use (Beyerstein) SI 23.2:52 The ten-percent myth SI 23.4:73 The ten-percent myth (letters) Briefs June 98 Absence of mind Free Inquiry 18.2:10 God module in the brain not **BURT, Cyril Skeptic 7.2:99 A re-evaluation (Ray Ward) Skeptic 7.3:26 Donald Rooum Skeptic 7.4:13 Australian Skeptic 48 **CANNIBALISM SI 22.1:14 Is cannibalism a myth? (Martin Gardner) SI 22.3:66 Replies to Martin Gardner (letters) **CASTANEDA, Carlos Zetetic 1.2:86 Truzzi reviews R de Mille SI 2.2:114 Review of "The Second Ring of Power" Skeptic 7.2:11 SI 22.5:8 Castaneda dies **CATTLE MUTILATIONS Zetetic 1.2:55 SI 4.1:11 Mexico SI 5.3:79 SI 9.4:374 Review of "Mute Evidence" **CAYCE, Edgar SI 4.1:51 Randi **CERNE ABBAS GIANT Skeptic 10.1:5 **CHANNELING SI 13.4:380 Brief history SI 13.4:385 Psychology of channeling SI 13,4:391 Linguistic analysis of channelers (Thomason) SI 13.4:409 Book review SI 14.2:216 Channeling and disorders SI 17.3:253 J Z Knight divorce reveals workings of the business **CHELATION THERAPY SI 10.1:83 Review of two books **CHI GONG Skeptic 8.6:12 Qigong: Chinese pseudoscience (Alcock) **CHINA Skeptic 8.6:12 Qigong: Chinese peudoscience (Alcock) Briefs 5.1:1 Paranormal in China (Wu Xianghong) SI 20.4:19 Traditional medicine and pseudoscience in China (Part 1) SI 19.5:38 China, chi, and chicanery SI 20.5:27 Traditional medicine and pseudoscience in China (Part 2) Briefs 7.1:11 Chinese superstitions in Taiwan **CHIROPRACTIC Briefs 3.2:3 Should chiropractors treat children? (Barrett) Laser Roundup 12 (Jarvis) SI 21.4:37 Chiropractic: Science and Antiscience and Pseudoscience **CHOPIN SI 16.2:125 Recording hoax **CLAIRVOYANCE SI 15.2:173 A test, using signal detection **CLIFFORD, W.K. Free Inquiry 17.2 The virtues of "The Ethics of Belief" **CLONING Freethinker 117.4:3 Barbara Smoker on "Dolly" the cloned sheep Free Inquiry 17.3:13 Thinking clearly about clones (Richard Dawkins) Free Inquiry 17.3:15 Taboos without a clue Free Inquiry 17.3:18 A humanist response Free Inquiry 18.2:57 Cloning and human dignity **COINCIDENCES SI 6.2:18 Self-selection Skeptic 9.4:17 Lies, damn lies, and statistics SI 15.4:382 Paulos Skeptic 4.2:12 NS 1613 Briefs 2.4:8 SI 22.5:23 Coincidences: remarkable or random? SI 22.5:29 Numerology: comes the revolution **COLD FUSION SI 14.2:161 Rothman SI 14.4:437 (letters) SI 16.2:179 Hines reviews Close SI 16.3:301 Shore reviews "Fire from Ice" SI 16.4:348 SI 17.1:201 Review by Hines Skeptic 3.4:6 Skeptic 5.2:23 Anthony Garrett reviews Frank Close Skeptic 6.6:6 Skeptic 7.3: SI 18.3: 296 Hines reviews Gary Taubes SI 22.3:8 Cold fusion saga ends at Utah birthplace **COLD READING Zetetic 1.2:18 Hyman SI 3.1:47 Sleight of tongue **COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE (see ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE) **CONSPIRACY THEORIES Briefs 6.4:12 **CONTENT ANALYSIS SI 23.3:40 SCAN or scam? **COSMIC ICE THEORY Skeptic 6.3:18 **COUNSELLING NS 2196 Briefs June 96 Medicine after death AmSkeptic 7.1:28 No evidence of success **CREATIONISM Zetetic 1.2:80 Review of Wysong SI 2.2:135 Wysong replies SI 4.1:21 SI 6.2:40 Geocentricity and the flat earth SI 7.1:5 Astronomy and creationism SI 7.3:2 Dinosaur and human footprints at Paluxy SI 9.3:290 Review of Henry Morris SI 9.4:364 'Lucy' out of context SI 10.1:182 Review of the literature SI 10.3:202 George McCready Price (Gardner) SI 10.3:258 Creationist evangelism SI 10.4:298 Creationists lose in Florida SI 11.1:61 Noah's Ark and ancient astronauts SI 11.2:147 Creatonism and the Supreme Court (Seckel) SI 12.2:128 Fundamentalists and evolution (Gardner) SI 12.2:184 Supreme Court and creationism (Gould) SI 13.2:185 Certainty and proof SI 13.4:436 (letters) SI 14.1:7 ICR still in business SI 14.2:182 Newspaper editors SI 14.3:245 Mivart (Gardner) SI 15.1:105 Editors and evolution SI 17.1:70 Social agenda of a pseudoscience Skeptic 2.2:27 Stephen Moreton on Colin Wood Skeptic 2.5:25 Stephen Moreton replies to Colin Wood Skeptic 4.6:19 Donald Rooum Skeptic 5.5:19 Why don't creationists talk about sex? (Rooum) Laser 3.2:8 Stephen Jay Gould Laser 3.2:10 Supreme Court Decision on Creation Science laser Roundup 1 Roger Lewin Laser Roundup 2 Stephen Jay Gould Laser Roundup 3 Brief for the Supreme Court Laser Roundup 5 Murray Gell-Mann Australian Skeptic 26 Paranoia in creationism SI 19.2:30 Kuznetsov's anti-evolution paper demolished Skeptic 9.3:8 Martin Bridgstock (in Australia) SI 22.2:6 Sandia scientists on validity of earth dating SI 22.2:7 Victory over creation science in Australia SI 22.2:12 Did Adam and Eve have navels? (Martin Gardner) **CRITICAL THINKING (see SKEPTICISM) **CROOKES, Sir William SI 15.1:62 **CROP CIRCLES SI 16.2:136 Nickell and Fischer SI 16.4:434 (letters) Skeptic 4.2:15 David Fisher Skeptic 5.5:6 Skeptic 5.6:9 Martin Hempstead Skeptic 6.1:26 Skeptic 6.4:19 Hoaxers on trial (Robin Allen) Skeptic 7.2:6 Robin Allen NS 1722 Meaden NS 1726 NS 1783 Fractals SI 18.2:191 Robert Baker reviews "Round in Circles" (Schnabel) Skeptic 8.1:6 Robin Allen Skeptic 8.2:6 Robin Allen SI 19.3:41 Crop Circle Mania wanes (Joe Nickell) AmSkeptic 7.1:12 Crop circle hoaxes **CRYPTOZOOLOGY SI 6.4:11 SI 6.4:16 Mokele-Mbembe SI 8.2:117 SI 10.1:111 Mokele-Mbembe SI 10.4:307 (Sheaffer) SI 13.4:348 Briefs 5.1:9 Literature of Cryptozoology (Gordon Stein) SI 23.4:78 Taxonomy, not cryptozoology (letters) SI 23.2:18 The Silver Lake serpent **CRYSTAL SKULL SI 22.6:15 The Skull of Doom of Lubaantun **CRYSTALS SI 13.2:206 SI 13.4:397 SI 13,4:417 Book reviews Skeptic 3.2:15 Stephen Moreton Skeptic 8.1:15 Ian Plimer (Professor of Geology) SI 20.4:59 A geologist's enlightened notes on crystal power **CSICOP SI 10.1:98 The 1985 conference in London SI 10.3:229 CSICOP after ten years (Kurtz) SI 12.1:38 Sagan on skepticism SI 13.2:114 CSICOP wins Hawaii court case SI 16.2:114 On being sued SI 18.1:4 CSICOP wins lawsuit in Maryland NS 100.1384 CSICOP Symposium NS 1556 Report on CSICOP Conference NS 1561 H velman on CSICOP Conference NS 1641 CSICOP Conference NS 1791 CSICOP Conference (Grossman) Briefs 3.3:1 Euroskeptics conference in Keele 1993 SI 20.4:5 History (Paul Kurtz) Briefs 7.2:1 Media Stock Fund **CURSE OF TUTENKHAMEN SI 6.4:12 Skeptic 2.6:20 Mike Hutchinson **CULTS Laser 3.2:14 **CYCLOSOPHY SI 16.2:167 Cornelis de Jager SI 16.4:436 (letters) SI 17.1:107 (letters) **DANIELS, Paul Skeptic 5.1:7 Interviewed by Mike Hutchinson **DARWIN, Charles AmSkeptic 7.1:95 The Huxley debate / Deathbed stories **DAWKINS, Richard SI 19.1: Putting away childish things Freethinker 117.6: Religionists invited to scientific debates **DEBUNKING SI 8.3:239 Kurtz on debunking and skepticism SI 9.4:319 Gardner SI 13.3:300 Debunking LASER 3.1:11 Seckel **DEFROSTING TRAYS SI 21.2:43 Metal pans are better **DENTISTRY SI 11.1:51 Dentistry and pseudoscience **DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE SI 22.3:68 Dangers (letters) **DINOSAURS AmSkeptic 6.4:72 The lost world of Jack Horner **DOGON TRIBE SI 20.6: A re-evaluation of their claimed astronomical knowledge **DOWSING SI 4.1:16 Randi SI 6.4:34 Divining in Australia (Dick Smith) SI 8.2:138 SI 8.4:329 Dowsing an electronic circuit (Randi) SI 12.3:234 Avalanche dowsing in Norway Skeptic 2.5:10 Denys Parsons NS 92.1276 NS 1552 Magnetism NS 1555 Dowsing (letters) NS 1737 Physics of a dowsing pendulum SI 20.2:50 The Scheunen Experiments in Germany Briefs 7.1:8 Statement by US Geological Survey SI 22.1:32 Dowsing the Rollright Stones monument SI 23.1:39 Failure of the Munich experiments SI 23.2:33 Dowsing and archeology SI 23.3:64 Evaluating the Munich experiments (letters) AmSkeptic 6.4:6 The matter of dowsing (Randi) **EAR CANDLING SI 22.6:17 **EDISON, Thomas SI 20.4:9 Edison, paranormalist (Martin Gardner) **EGG BALANCING SI 20.3:8 Martin Gardner **ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCES AND CANCER SCARES 18.4:4343 Letters and reply Skeptic 10.3:17 The media and the pylon scare SI 23.1:9 American Physical Society: no evidence of health effects **ENCYCLOPEDIAS SI 20.6:21 Eugene Emerey reviews CD-ROM encyclopedias **ESP SI 4.4:6 ESP and statistics SI 5.4:22 A conceptual analysis (Gendin) SI 6.4:65 Response to Gendin by Morris and Clyde Hardin SI 6.4:70 Gendin's rejoinder SI 8.4:322 Evidence for ESP (Hansel) Briefs 9.2:13 Sony Corporation's research **ESSIAC SI 22.4:43 A not-so-remarkable cancer remedy **ETHICS Free Inquiry 18.2: **EUTHANASIA Free Inquiry 17.1: 4 Assisted suicide Free Inquiry 17.1:5 Euthanasia in the Netherlands Freethinker 117.6:3 **EVOLUTION SI 20.6:8 New Mexico's Board of Education drops the word Free Inquiry 17.1:10 Catholic Primate clings to evolution Free Inquiry 17.1:11 The Pope, Evolution, and the Soul (Mario Bunge) AmSkeptic 7.1:37 Selection for credulity Free Inquiry 18.2:37 Evolution and creationism in schools **EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE SI 15.3:255 For SI 15.3:263 Against SI 16.1:94 (letters) SI 17.3:288 SETI Laser 3.2:6 Defending SETI **EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITISATION AND REPROCESSING (EMDR) Briefs 7.1:12 Can eye movements cure mental ailments? **FACE ON MARS SI 22.4:23 Global Surveyor Photographs **EYEWITNESS SI 17.4:394 **FACILITATED COMMUNICATION SI 17.3:270 SI 17.3:281 SI 18.1:100 (letters) SI 19.1:6 Scientifically invalid, says APA **FAIRIES Zetetic 2.1:45 Sheaffer NS 79.1115 Fairy photos Skeptic 10.1:14 Cottingley fairies **FAITH HEALING SI 11.1:28 Robert Steiner Skeptic 5.5:9 Dr Peter May on the healing of Mrs Jean Neil Skeptic 7.4:21 Cerullo (Grossman) Laser Roundup 24 Peter Popoff (Seckel) Freethinker 118.6:11 **FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME SI 17.4:370 Gardner SI 18.1:73 Review of "The Abuse of Innocence" Briefs 3.2:1 Kendrick Frazier: a plea to psychotherapists SI 18.4:342 American Psychiatric Association statement SI 18.5:464 Gardner SI 19.2:9 Elizabeth Loftus SI 19.2:20 Elizabeth Loftus **FARRRAKHAN, Louis SI 12.2: 16 Martin Gardner **FENG SHUI Skeptic 9.3:5 Skeptic 11.3:16 Feng shui phooey **FERRERI TECHNIQUE SI 15.1:40 SI 15.3:322 (letters) **FINDHORN 2.3:5 **FIREBALLS (BALL LIGHTNING) Skeptic 6.4:10 Frank Chambers Skeptic 6.6:12 Steuart Campbell NS 66.952 NS 69.989 NS 70.996 NS 72.1032 NS 89.1235 Fireballs and UFOs NS 1761 Ball lightning in microwaves NS 1865 **FIREWALKING SI 10.1:23 Leikind and McCarthy SI 10.1:36 SI 10.3:284 (letters) NS 1461 Cherfas NS 1725 Blackmore NS 1727 Laser 1.2:6 Caltech Laser Roundup 7 Laser Roundup 9 A firewalk in Japan (Leikind) SI 23.1:5 World's longest firewalk **FLAT EARTH Freethinker 117.5: 6 Saudi Arabian edict that Earth is flat **FOOD FADS Briefs 2.3:5 Vitamin wars (Barrett) Briefs 3.3:7 The Delaney clause (Rothman) **FREE WILL Free Inquiry 18.2:43 Lewis Vaughan and Theodore Schick, Jr **FRIDAY THE 13TH Briefs 7.2:4 A brief history of Friday the 13th (Joe Nickell) **GAIA SI 13.3:252 Gardner SI 17.1:48 Gaia without mysticism SI 17.3:333 Gaia without mysticism (letters) **GALLUP SURVEY ON PARANORMAL BELIEFS SI 15.2:137 SI 15.4:435 (letters) SI 16.4:347 Criticised **GARDNER, Martin Skeptic6.1:5 As Cosmic Trickster in Seattle SI 22.2:34 A mind at play:Interview with Gardner **GAUQUELIN, Michel (see ASTROLOGY) **GELLER, Uri Zetetic 1.2:9 Marks and Kamman Zetetic 1.2:125 Geller refuses CSICP test Zetetic 1.2:126 Metallurgist backs down from support Zetetic 1.2:126 Metal-fracture analyst debunks Geller's spoon SI 2.2:25 Randi SI 7.2:33 Martin Gardner on Geller at SRI SI 11.2:120 Dowsing for minerals SI 11.3:226 Deceptions SI 12.1:75 Catching Geller in the act SI 14.1:49 Feynman SI 16.4:339 Freedom of Inquiry under siege SI 17.1:5 Suit against CSICOP dismissed SI 17.4:355 CSICOP awarded sanctions against Geller Skeptic 1.2:4 Geller on Wogan Skeptic 1.2:10 The Geller bumph (Frank Chambers) Skeptic 1.4:21 Review of Geller's "Fortune Secrets" (Grossman) Skeptic 1.5:5 Geller in Reading (Mike Hutchinson) Skeptic 1.5:16 Geller branded a fake Skeptic 1 5:30 Geller's hot-air balloon Skeptic 2.1:12 Geller's boat Skeptic 2.4:9 A thorn in Geller's side (Mike Hutchinson) Skeptic 3.4:18 Feynman, Richard Skeptic 3.5:22 Mike Hutchinson Skeptic 4.6:16 Dominic Twose NS 62.895 NS 64.919 NS64.921 NS 64.922 NS 64.923 NS 78.1097 Laser 4.4:8 Feynman, Richard SI 19.2:5 Columbia Court of Appeal text excerpts SI 20.5:18 Geller and Reading football team (Robert Sheaffer) Skeptic 10.4:11 ASA complaint AmSkeptic 6.4:34 Hyman replies to Geller **GENERAL SEMANTICS SI 17.3:261 Korzybski and E-Prime (Gardner) SI 18.1:103 Gardner and critics **GEOLOGY SI 12.4:344 Moving continents and shifting ideas SI 12.4:360 Predicting earthquakes SI 12.4:398 Wegener and pseudoscience **GHOSTS (see HAUNTINGS) **GILOVICH, Thomas SI 21.2:31 Some systematic biases of everyday judgment **GIRARD, Jean-Pierre SI 2.2:30 **GLOSSOLALIA Skeptic 5.3:15 Speaking in tongues **GOLD (anomalous) SI 22.1:38 **GOLD, Tommy SI 11.1:21 Gardner SI 11.3:312 (letters) **GRAPHOLOGY SI 11.4:346 SI 13.1:64 Furnham SI 13.3:241 Skeptic 5.1:16 NS 1711 NS 1766 Graphotherapy Laser 4.4:17 **GULF WAR SYNDROME AmSkeptic 6.4:12 **HALDANE, J B S SI 16.3:244 Gardner **HAUNTINGS SI 8.2:149 The haunting of the Ivan Vassilli SI 11.1:84 Ghost-busting (Baker) SI 11.2:137 The West Pittston haunted house (Kurtz) SI 11.4:424 The West Pittston haunted house (Busch) SI 11.4428 Ghostbusting SI 13.1:80 Review of book on the West Pittston haunting SI 13.2:196 Review of "Appearances of the Dead" SI 13.2:211 Henry Gordon SI 16.3:400 Ghost lights of Texas LASER ROUNDUP 53 SCS investigates LA's ghost Skeptic 10.1:12 Haunted pub (Richard Wiseman) SI 20.4:13 Ghostly photos (Joe Nickell) **HERBAL MEDICINE NS 1642 Chinese herbal medicine NS 2196 St john's Wort and cataracts **HI-FI AUDIO PSEUDOSCIENCE SI 15.3:250 The green-marker myth and others SI 16.1:90 SI 16.1:102 (letters) Skeptic 3.4:10 David Fisher **HOAXES SI 20.6:14 Physicist Alan Sokal's sociology hoax SI 22.4:14 Ten top paranormal hoaxes (Joe Nickell) SI 22.5:7 April Fool joke on pi SI 22.5: Briefs 8.4:8 A fake petroglyph in the desert **HOLOCAUST SI 18.3:295 Hines reviews Deborah Lipstadt **HOLY STONES OF NEWARK SI 15.2:117 **HOME, Daniel SI 10.4:370 Beloff and Gardner SI 11.2:210 Beloff on Gardner SI 12.3:333 Beloff on Daniel Home SI 15.3:327 (letters) SI 16.1:107 Gordon Stein (letters) **HOMEOPATHY SI 12.1:56 SI 12.3:331 (letters) SI 12.4:441 (letters) SI 13.2.132 Benveniste (Gardner) SI 13.2:142 Benveniste (Randi) SI 13.4:430 A defence and Randi's reply SI 14.1:90 Benveniste SI 14.2:218 Benveniste: Randi replies SI 15.2:115 Homeopathy in Canada Skeptic 2.5:9 Benveniste Skeptic 4.3:6 Steve Donnelly Skeptic 6.4:6 Jan Willem Nienhuys NS 1402 NS 1624 Randi and "Nature" investigate Benveniste NS 1625 NS 1626 Editorial on Benveniste NS 1637 Benveniste affair closed NS 1699 Benveniste makes a comeback NS 1760 Return of Benveniste NS 1774 Laser 4.4:19 Benveniste (Schneour) SI 18.3:2320 Benveniste: no replication Skeptic 11.2: 4 Homeopathic detergent Skeptic 11.2: 5 Benveniste sends homeopathis influences by email NS 2101:3 Editorial on homeopathy - no rise above statistical noise NS 2101:12 Benveniste hits out SI 22.1:19 Benveniste: emailed antigens **HOMING ABILITIES SI 11.2:186 Bees, cats, people (Randi) **HONESTY TESTS SI 18.1:33 **HORBIGER, Hans Skeptic 6.3:18 Cosmic Ice Theory **HOUDINI SI 22.2:9 Houdini seance SI 22.2:40 Houdini and Conan Doyle (Massimo Polidoro) **HOYLE. Fred NS 76.1078 Diseases from space NS 76.1080 Diseases from space NS 77.1084 Diseases from space NS 77.1086 Evolution from space **HUNDREDTH MONKEY SI 9.4:348 SI 11.3:303 SI 20.3:51 **HUME, David Free Inquiry 17.1:38 The Immortal David Hume SI 21.6:7 Statue in Edinburgh Free Inquiry 17.4:55 Statue in Edinburgh **HURKOS, Peter SI 13.2:116 **HYDROPATHY Skeptic 8.3:12 **HYPNOSIS SI 5.3:16 UFO abductions (Klass and Hilgard) SI 12.2:147 Hypnotic regression and abductees (Baker) SI 12.2:174 Past-life regression (Spanos) SI 12.2:181 A stage performer's view (Reveen) SI 12.4:386 Hypnosis and reincarnation SI 12.4:436 Baker's hypnotic regression article (letters) SI 13.1:106 Spanos and H B Gibson (letters) SI 14.2:217 Hypnosis and pain SI 14.3:302 Review of Spanos and Chaves SI 15.4:405 Review of Baker's "They call it hypnosis" Skeptic 2.3:20 Michael Heap on Peter Casson Skeptic 4.1:7 Hypnosis and the occult (Gibson) Skeptic 4.1:12 What is hypnosis? Skeptic 4.4:30 Wagstaff Skeptic 7.3:5 Hypnosis and crime NS 2141:26 Hypnosis and brain changes AmSkeptic 7.1:40 Hypnosis for the 21st century **ILLUSIONS SI 20.3:21 Report of CSICOP's Human Error Workshop SI 20.3:23 Sensory illusions **IMMORTALITY Briefs 9.2:11 Robert Baker **IMPOSSIBLE BOX SI 18.3:316 Andrus **INDIAN ROPE TRICK Skeptic 8.6:17 Brian W Haines **IG NOBEL AWARDS SI 19.1:7 Prizes for 1994 **INTELLIGENCE AND IQ TESTING SI 17.4:416 Book review Skeptic 3.5:20 Wendy Grossman Skeptic 8.4:8 IQ scores Skeptic 8.5:27 Letter from J W Nienhuys Skeptic 10.1:10 **INTERNET Briefs 6.4:1 Pseudoscience on the Internet (Milton Rothman) **IONS SI 11.1:56 Atmospheric electricity and ions SI 11.3:303 **IRIDOLOGY SI 7.3:23 Skeptic 3.4:16 **ISLAM New Humanist p173 Siting of mosque in Regent's Park Freethinker 117.4:2 Islamophobia Freethinker 117.6:4 Disasters attending the hajj Freethinker 117.7:2 Protecting Muslims from discrimination Freethinker 117.12:3 Runnymede Trust report: "Islamophobia" Freethinker 117.12:4 Runnymede Trust report: "Islamophobia" Freethinker 117.12:10 The Muslim Council of Britain Freethinker 117.12:14 Female genital mutilation Freethinker 118.2:5 UK government funds Muslim schools Freethinker 118.2:11 Islam and brutality Freethinker 118.5:4 TV cartoon on the life of Mohammed Freethinker 118.6:2 Muslims cause withdrawal of football Freethinker 118.7:5 The Nation of Islam Freethinker 118.11:9 Blasphemy warrant against Taslima Nasreen Freethinker 118.11:26 A broadside by Anwar Shaikh **JEFFERSON, Thomas Free Inquiry 18.2:40 Jefferson and race Free Inquiry 18.4:6 The real Jefferson on religion **JUDAISM Freethinker 117.4:11 British Jewry's sectarian strife Freethinker 117.7:5 The eruv controversy Freethinker 118.2:11 Judaism and brutality Freethinker 118.7:6 The eruv controversy Freethinker 118.11:11 The eruv controversy **KARATE STRIKES SI 15.1:25 The physics of a karate strike SI 15.3:332 (letters) **KENNEDY ASSASSINATION SI 19.2:13 AmSkeptic 6.4:40 Case closed AmSkeptic 6.4:51 Case open **KENSINGTON RUNESTONE SI 17.1:57 SI 17.3:335 (letters) **KIRLIAN EFFECT SI 10.3:244 SI 13.2:172 **KRESKIN SI 16.1:4 Commentary on his conference lecture SI 16.3:326 Penn Jillette (letter) SI 19.1:21 Kreskin flubs again **KURTZ, PAUL 2.3:8 Interviewed by Wendy Grossman **LANGUAGE Briefs 8.4:11 Words and science **LEVITATION Zetetic 2.1:7 Also Doug Henning SI 2.2:12 Miracle at Shivpuri SI 13.3:277 Gordon Stein SI 13.3:289 Some physics SI 15.1:30 The finger-lift levitation (Gardner) SI 15.2:119 Photo a fake SI 17.3:267 Levitating Linda **LEE, Dennis SI 21.4:34 Dennis Lee's Free-energy machine **LEY LINES NS 96.1337/8 NS 97.1342 (letter) **LIE DETECTORS (see POLYGRAPH) **LINGUISTICS SI 11.4:367 Linguistic analysis and reincarnation (Thomason) SI 12.3:321 Thomason and critic SI 13.4:391 Linguistic analysis of channelers (Thomason) Skeptic 5.3:15 Speaking in tongues Briefs 3.3:11 Creole and double negatives (Thomason) SI 19.4:3 Artificial languages (Martin Gardner) **LITERARY SCIENCE BLUNDERS SI 19.1:14 Martin Gardner **LOCH NESS MONSTER Zetetic 2.1:110 Heuvelmans reviews Mackal SI 7.2:42 Steuart Campbell SI 8.2:175 Review of Binns' "The Loch Ness mystery solved" SI 9.2:147 Sonar and photographic searches (with flipper photo) SI 9.4:382 Rines and critics SI 9.4:394 Letter SI 11.3:293 Review of Henry Bauer's book SI 12.4:427 Review of Steuart Campbell's book Skeptic 3.3:22 Steuart Campbell reviews Nicholas Witchell Skeptic 6.2:18 Steuart Campbell SI 18.4:338 Surgeon's photo a fake SI 19.2:62 Steuart Campbell suspicious of the Nessie fake Briefs 6.3:7 Nessie Hoax Redux (Joe Nickell) **LOGIC Briefs 7.2:7 Can you prove it? **LOURDES SI 6.4:4 Skeptic 9.4:5 Infected water **LUCID DREAMING SI 15.4:362 Blackmore SI 16.2:213 (letters) Skeptic 10.2:13 Duncan Barford **LUNAR EFFECTS SI 3.3:68 Biological tides, by Abell SI 4.1:75 Suicides and homicide SI 7.1:62 James Rotton reviews "Full Moons" SI 9.3:236 Homicides SI 10.1:129 The moon was full and nothing happened SI 11.1:108 Authors reply to letters on full moon SI 14.3:298 Worldwide disasters and moon phase SI 19.4:30 Did the moon sink the Titanic? SI 21.3:44 James Rotton: review of "How the moon affects you" SI 11.4:7 Myths and moonshine **MAGICIANS SI 11.1:17 Magic Circle's Occult Committee SI 15.3:286 Henry Gordon Skeptic 3.5:22 Mike Hutchinson Skeptic 5.1:7 Paul Daniels interviewed by Mike Hutchinson NS 98.1364 Magicians in the laboratory Briefs 2.3:11 CSICOP sub-committee on magic proposed Briefs 3.2:7 Secrets Laser Roundup 56 David Alexander Offprint 1 (BAAS) Science and parascience (Harry Collins) SI 22.2:59 Exposing magic: the masked magician on TV **MAGNETS Offprint 2 (BAAS) Magnetic sense: human navigation (Robin Baker) SI 22.1:27 Magnetic water and fuel treatment SI 22.3:61 Magnetic fuel treatments (letters) SI 22.4:25 Magnetic therapy **MAHARISHI SI 16.3:254 JAMA hoodwinked **MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS Skeptic 4.5:6 Management consultants (Anthony Garrett) Skeptic 5.1:14 Ian Woods **MANNING, Matthew Zetetic 2.1:9 **MAPS, ANCIENT SI 11.1:32 Antarctica **MARCUS, Ronnie Briefs 7.1:14 Marcus-Pocus (by Ray Hyman) **MARS EFFECT (see ASTROLOGY) **MARTIAL ARTS Skeptic 8.4:6 Myths of secret powers **MARTIAN PHOTOS SI 6.3:14 Donald Duck SI 10.1:14 (Gardner) SI 11.3:296 Review of "The Face on Mars" SI 12.4:340 SI 13.1:76 Book reviews Skeptic 7.4:6 NS 2130:10 The face is a hill **MARY CELESTE Skeptic 5.2:12 The Marie Celeste Mystery: Solved? Skeptic 7.5:6 A Celestial Mystery Revisited (Brian Haines) Skeptic 8.5:13 Mary Celeste revisited ( Alan Hunt) **MASS HYSTERIA SI 15.2:153 Mass hysteria on the West Bank **MATHEMATICS SI 18.1:52 Mathematical magic for skeptics (Arthur Benjamin) SI 20.2: 53 Afro-American contributions to mathematics SI 20.3:39 Fun and fallacies with numbers (Marilyn vos Savant) **MATTRESS, MERSEYSIDE Skeptic 2.2:30 Body imprint **McKENNA, Paul Freethinker 117.8:11 "The Paranormal World of Paul McKenna" (TV) **MEAD, Margaret SI 17.1:131 Gardner SI 17.4:435 Gardner and critics SI 22.6:29 Pro Mead SI 22.6:35 Pro Mead **MEDIA SI 10.1:126 Pseudoscience and Associated Press SI 15.1:89 Review of "Media Hoaxes" SI 15.1:99 Police, media, and satanism (letters) SI 15.1:105 Editors and evolution SI 16.4:430 A tabloid encyclopedia? NS 1761 The paranormal in the media (Grossman) SI 21.2:21 Seasonof the supernatural (Eugene Emery) Free Inquiry 18.2:5 Media conglomerates **MEDICAL SI 9.3:270 Deceptive patients SI 19.4:6 The tryptophan disaster SI 19.5:4 No link between power lines and cancer SI 19.5:47 Hines reviews Glenn Doman on brain-injured children Skeptic 9.4:9 The social psychology of healing (Michael Heap) Skeptic 9.4:15 Quackery now and then Skeptic 11.2:12 Ginseng NS 2148:4 Salt and blood pressure Skeptic 11.4:10 Super blue-green algae Briefs 8.4:1 Peddling snake oil (Joe Nickell) Briefs 8.4:9 Medical intuitives (Robert A Baker) **MEDITATION (See TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION) **MEDIUMS (See PSYCHICS) **MIRACLES SI 9.3:243 Guadalupe image (Nickell and Fischer) SI 10.4:295 Bleeding statue in Quebec SI 10.4:319 Miracles and repeatability (Flew) SI 16.3:236 Duplicating the liquefaction of blood SI 17.1:91 The Bloody Miracle of San Gennaro SI 17.1:104 The liquefaction of the blood of San Gennaro SI 17.2:120 A visitation at Cold Spring SI 17.2:209 Liquefying blood Skeptic 1,1:6 Knock: papal visit Skeptic 1.1:10 Moving statues Skeptic 1.4:11 Knock Skeptic 1.6: 27 Statues on the move Skeptic2.1:17 Knock Skeptic 2.1:36 Knock Skeptic 2.2:28 Knock Skeptic 5.4:16 More light on Medjugorje Skeptic 6.4:16 The science of miracles Skeptic 6.6:9 The fasting woman of Tutbury Skeptic 7.1:5 Visions of the Virgin Mary Skeptic 7.2:13 A metallurgical miracle NS 1612 Image of Christ is country music singer SI 18.5:477 Joe Nickell SI 19.5:6 Weeping Madonna in Italy (Massimo Polidoro) Free Inquiry 14.2:48 Medjugorje Skeptic 10.3:6 Yogananda - incorruptibility of body after death SI 21.2: 19 Weeping icon in Toronto (Joe Nickell) Free Inquiry 17.2:4 Tampa Bay's Virgin Mary apparition Free Inquiry 17.2:5 Tearful icons (Joe Nickell) SI 21.6: 21 Miraculous rose petals? SI 22.1:17 Jesus among the clouds (Joe Nickell) SI 22.6:15 Image of Guadaloupe SI 22.6:24 The miraculous stairway of Santa Fe (Joe Nickell) Freethinker 119.1:7 Religious relics Freethinker 119.1:3 Disestablishment in the UK? Freethinker 119.1:7 Images of God (The Popes pronouncement) Freethinker 119.1:13 Ditto: Radio 4 follow-up **MISSING DAY SI 10.3:258 SI 11.1:108 (letters) **MOON (see LUNAR EFFECTS) **MOTHER THERESA Free Inquiry 18.1:31 Mother Theresa's House of Illusions Free Inquiry 18.2:7 Mother Theresa's life and death in the media Free Inquiry 18.2:52 Journalists or defenders of the faith? **MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER Skeptic 10.4:6 John Gillies SI 22.3:44 Witchcraft survives in the 20th century SI 22.6:54 Book review **MUSLIMS (see ISLAM) **"MYSTERIES" SI 5.3:71 Review of Arthur Clarke's "Mysterious World" SI 6.4:10 Arthur Lindgren reads gramopone records SI 6.4:38 The Great Lakes Triangle SI 7.1:46 Includes recommended book-titles SI 8.2:149 The haunting of the Ivan Vassilli SI 8.4:382 The proof that bumble-bees can't fly Skeptic 1.2:5 Brooke Bond mystery cards Skeptic 1.2:13 Review of "You've been duped" (Melvin Harris) Skeptic 2.4:18 Mike Hutchinson reviews Time-Life NS 1615 Raining frogs etc SI 20.2:19 Miracle photographs (Joe Nickell) **NAGPRA SI 23.3:44 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act **NAZCA SI 2.2:133 Two letters (one by Randi) SI 7.3:36 Joe Nickell SI 12.4;426 Book review **NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES (see OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES) **NEURAL ORGANISATION TECHNIQUE SI 15.1:40 SI 15.3:322 (letters) **NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING SI 13.1:37 Evaluation by National Academy of Sciences **NEW AGE SI 13.2:189 Michael Crichton's "Travels" (book review) SI 13.3:226 New light on the New Age SI 13.4:353 What's in and what's out SI 13.4:365 Paul Kurtz SI 13.4:368 SI 13.4:375 SI 13.4:401 Consumer culture and the New Age SI 13.4:401 Shirley MacLaine SI 13.4:409 Review of two books SI 14.2:212 New Age and Science (letters) SI 14.4:339 Skeptic 5.2:7 Skeptic 6.4:12 Physics in the New Age (Part 1) Skeptic 6.5:13 Physics in the New Age (Part 2) LASER 3.3:4 The New Age marketplace **NEWTON, Sir Isaac SI 20.5:13 Newton - alchemist and fundamentalist (Martin Gardner) **NOAH'S ARK SI 9.3:219 Sheaffer SI 11.1:61 SI 11.2:213 (letters) SI 12.4:359 SI 13.2:193 Review of Berlitz book SI 13.4:443 (letters) Skeptic 1.6:14 Briefs 3.1:11 CBS program SI 18.2:117 CBS program SI 22.1:8 Ian Plimer's court battle with creationists SI 22.3:19 Photos of Mount Ararat (Robert Sheaffer) **NOSTRADAMUS SI 13.1:20 California earthquake (Seckel) Skeptic 5.1:11 Nostradamus and the Middle East crisis **N-RAYS Zetetic 2.1:57 Klass Skeptic 5.1:10 **NUMEROLOGY SI 7.3:53 SI 21.5:16 The numerology of Dr Rashad Khalifa (Martin Gardner) **OMEGA POINT THEORY SI 15.2:128 Tipler and the anthropic principle **OPINIONS Briefs 9.2:10 What do you think? **OPTICAL ILLUSIONS SI 17.1:126 Jerry Andrus **ORGAN SNATCHERS Skeptic 11.2:6 Is trade in human organs myth or reality? **OSMOTHERAPY NS 1731 **OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES SI 3.3:25 Alcock SI 11.4:349 Woody Allen SI 12.2:201 Blackmore's review of "After the Beyond" SI 15.3:230 Comments on "Flatliners" SI 16.1:22 SI 16.1:35 Blackmore SI 16.3:327 Depersonalization and OBEs (Blackmore) SI 20.4:27 Maria's near-death experience (shoe outside hospital window) Skeptic 2.4:15 Antony Flew Skeptic 3.3:14 Blackmore Skeptic 7.1:18 Tunnel vision Skeptic 7.3:13 Interview with Blackmore Skeptic 7.4:9 Neural networks and NDEs NS 1797 Near death experiences in Japan LASER ROUNDUP 28 Ronald Siegel **OZONE HOLE SI 18.5:488 Reader's guide to the controversy (Rensberger) SI 19.2:58 Letters and Rensberger's reply **OYSTERS SI 17.1:188 Can oysters sense where the moon is? SI 17.4:448 **PALMISTRY SI 7.2:21 SI 15.1:36 Skeptic 3.4:5 **PARAPSYCHOLOGY AND THE PARANORMAL SI 2.2:6 Randi on Carl Sargent SI 3.2:14 A Science? (Frazier) SI 3.3:3 Taylor SI 3.3:12 Wheeler at the AAAS SI 5.2:60 Hyman reviews Marks and Kamman SI 5.3:58 Shneour reviews Flim-Flam SI 6.3:76 Hansel replies to Hyman on Quantum PK SI 6.4:18 David Marks on remote viewing SI 6.4:54 Review of Alcock's "Parapsychology: Science or Magic?" SI 7.2:55 In defense of skepticism SI 7.2:55 Abell reviews "Science and Unreason" by D & M Radner SI 7.3:96 Project Alpha SI 8.2:102 Project Beta (Randi) SI 8.2:111 Magicians in the lab (Martin Gardner) SI 8.2:121 Sense and nonsense in parapsychology (Hoebens) SI 8.2:180 Randi reviews Eysenck's "Know your own psi-q" SI 8.3:198 Project Alpha aftermath SI 8.3:259 Proving negatives SI 8.3:271 Klass reviews "Mindwars" SI 8.4:296 Objections to BBC's Horizon programme on ESP SI 8.4:312 Lack-of-progress report (Alcock) SI 8.4:344 Misperception and the occult SI 8.4:373 Review of Horizon programme on ESP SI 8.4:379 Margaret Mead (letter anti Gardner) SI 9.1:13 Koestler foundation SI 9.1:62 Similarities between twins SI 9.1:67 Changing beliefs in the paranormal SI 9.2:118 Gardner reviews "The Mind Race" (Targ and Harary) SI 9.2:125 Hyman on "The Mind Race" SI 9.2:159 Final interview with Milbourne Christopher SI 9.3:299 Beloff and Gardner (letters) SI 10.1:2 Ganzfeld SI 10.1:6 Robert Morris gets Koestler appointment SI 10.1:116 Gardner on Robert Morris SI 10.1:144 USSR SI 10.4:292 Nature slams parascience SI 10.4:303 Gardner SI 10.4:310 Occam's razor (Schneour) SI 10.4:319 Miracles and repeatability (Flew) SI 11.1"91 Maimonides dream-telepathy (Hyman) SI 11.3:244 Ten years of negative research (Blackmore) SI 12.1:103 Letters on Blackmore SI 12.2:163 The brain and psi (Beyerstein) SI 12.3:226 Row over Sargent's psi experiments SI 12.3:240 Obligation to disclose fraud (Gardner) SI 12.3:248 Neuropathology and spiritual possession (Beyerstein) SI 13.1:34 Evaluation by National Academy of Sciences SI 13.1:84 Review of "Oxford Companion to the Mind" SI 13.1:92 Neuropathology and spiritual possession (letters) SI 13.1:95 Brain and psi (Janov replies to Beyerstein) SI 13.2:147 Precognition and psychophysics SI 13.2:161 Reaction-time test of ESP and precognition (Hines) SI 13.2:216 Mensa beliefs SI 13.4:444 Mensa beliefs (letters) SI 14.3:255 The Soviet Union SI 15.1:15 Public policy and the paranormal SI 15.4:348 USSR SI 16.1:87 Harary on "The Mind Race" SI 16.1:88 Gardner on "The Mind Race" SI 16.1:89 Jahn's statistics SI 16.3:229 Scientists' opinions of ESP and PK SI 16.3:233 Best ways of training for tasks SI 16.3:329 Jahn's statistics SI 16.4:367 Psychic illusions (Blackmore) SI 17.2:115 Nick Humphrey SI 17.3:306 Honorton's legacy to parapsychology (Blackmore) SI 17.4:357 Remote viewing plagued with defects Skeptic 1.6:30 Reviews of "Was Anybody There?" (TV) Skeptic 2.2:16 S G Soal: Master of Deception (Chris Scott) Skeptic 2.3:12 The case against ESP (Anthony Garrett) Skeptic 2.3:14 Telepathy: a mechanism? No (Steve Donnelly) Skeptic 2.3:22 Steuart Campbell reviews Blackmore on "Antenna" Skeptic 2.5:15 Fraud (H B Gibson) Skeptic 2.5:20 Mike Hutchinson reviews Bob Couttie Skeptic 4.1:18 The case for psi (Beloff) Skeptic 4.1:21 The case against psi (John Maddox) Skeptic 4.5:8 Stephen Fry Skeptic 4.5:13 David Fisher against meta-analysis Skeptic 4.5:16 Jessica Utts defends statistics Skeptic 5.4:18 Dualism, ESP, and belief Skeptic 5.6:6 Seeing is believing? (Blackmore) Skeptic 6.1:12 Soviet Union Skeptic 7.1:7 Skeptics and the paranormal in Hong Kong Skeptic 7.1:9 Obituary: Charles Honorton (Blackmore) NS 66.946 Berglas on Taylor NS 948 Taylor on Berglas NS 66.952 Children bend spoons NS 67.960 Randi at Psychic News NS 69.983 Evil eye affects football games NS 75.1060 Spoon bending NS 79.1115 Fairy photos NS 82.1154 Changing Skylab by thoughts NS 84.1180 Parapsychology NS 95.1323 Beloff NS 97.1342 American scientists and ESP NS 97.1343 Randi's spoonbenders NS 98.1367 Scientists and the supernormal (Brandon) NS 1735 Lure of the paranormal (Blackmore) NS 1750 Blackmore on consciousness NS 1761 The paranormal in the media (Grossman) NS 1768 Grossman reviews Braude on psychokinesis NS 1769 DVLC says 666 is unlucky NS 1777 Lawsuits and critics of the paranormal (Grossman) NS 1829 Blackmore reviews parapsychology book NS 1831 Nick Humphrey (two items) NS 1833 Honorton and Josephson on telepathy NS 1873 Telepathy (Honorton/Ganzfeld) Briefs 3.1:9 Bergen Evans and Nick Humphrey Briefs 3.3:3 Judge Hornby's dream (Baker) Laser Roundup 32 Science and parapsychology Offprint 1 (BAAS) Science and parascience (Harry Collins) Offprint 3 (BAAS) Brian Inglis on the paranormal Offprint 4 (BAAS) Some case histories (Ruth Brandon) Offprint 5 (Journal of the SPR) Psi in science (Blackmore) New Humanist p175 Laws, miracles and repeatability (Flew) New Humanist p177 John Taylor looks at the paranormal New Humanist p178 Mark Hansel New Humanist p180 Trevor Hall on psychical research New Humanist p181 Responsibility in parapsychology (Dingwall) New Humanist p183 Berglas Skeptic 8.1:13 Parapsychology in the UK (Tony Lawrence) Skeptic 9.6:8 Blackmore asks for more anecdotes SI 20.2:12 Claiborne Pell: Senator from Outer Space (Gardner) SI 20.2:21 Military's program on psychic spying (Ray Hyman) SI 20.2:24 Evidence for psychic functioning (Ray Hyman) SI 20.4:63 Letter - Army Research Institute did no original research Skeptic 10.3:12 Sheep and Goats (Chris French) Skeptic 10.4: Books on the paranormal for children (Wiseman/Jeffreys) Freethinker 117.8:11 "Paranormal World of Paul McKenna" (TV) SI 21.4:44 Alla Vinogradova (Massimo Polidoro) SI 22.4:35 Paranormal depictions in the media SI 22.5:8 Premanand gets India's highest award for science popularization SI 22.5:14 Temple University (Martin Gardner) SI 22.6:49 Electromagnetic fields and telepathy (Lawrence Krauss) **PATENT MEDICINES Briefs 8.4:1 Peddling snake oil (Joe Nickell) **PAULING, Linus SI 13.4:440 (letters) SI 19.1:18 The dark side, by Stephen Barrett **PENN AND TELLER SI 15.3:286 Henry Gordon **PERCEPTION SI 12.4:392 Pitfalls of perception SI 13.2:214 Pitfalls of perceptions (letters) **PERMANENT PARANORMAL OBJECTS SI 15.3:245 Gardner SI 16.1:29 **PERPETUAL MOTION SI 5.2:25 SI 7.1:67 Hines reviews "Perpetual Motion" SI 9.2:115 Jury believes claims SI 14.1:46 Feynman SI 15.1:70 The N machine Skeptic 3.2:9 Anthony Garrett Laser Roundup 42 The Santa barbara machine (MacCready) Laser Roundup 43 SCS saves investors 3 million dollars **PERSINGER, Michael Free Inquiry 17.1:47 Mystical experiences by technology **PERSONALITY TESTS SI 15.2:161 Acceptance of results **PHRENOLOGY SI 9.3:261 Phrenology and popular gullibility Skeptic 10.3:20 Toby Howard **PHYSICS Briefs 9.2:8 The phantom of free energy (Stenger) **PILTDOWN SI 14.4:397 Paradigms and the paranormal (Feder) NS 1737 NS 1741 Laser 3.2:16 Review of Blinderman **PINEAL GLAND NS 1466 **PIRI RE'IS MAP Skeptic 11.3:8 Here be penguins **PLACEBOS Skeptic 9.6:16 Edzard Ernst **PLANK ILLUSION SI 18.3:314 Hyman **POLITICS SI 21.3:40 Skepticism and politics **POLTERGEISTS SI 9.3:221 Columbus poltergeist (Randi) SI 13.1:91 Columbus poltergeist (Randi) **POLYGRAPH SI 14.3:292 (Shneour) NS 65.934 NS 98.1358 NS 100.1380 NS 100.1385 NS 100.1388 NS 1404 Lie detectors LASER ROUNDUP 34 Al Seckel NS 2130: 21 Supreme Court upholds ban in military trials **POLYWATER SI 7.1:67 Hines reviews "Polywater" Skeptic 4.6:20 **POPULATION STEREOTYPES Skeptic 4.3:26 **POSTAGE STAMPS SI 16.1:31 Pseudoscience on stamps SI 17.4:363 Pseudoscience and real science on stamps **POST-HOCKERY SI 22.6:44 **POSTMODERNISM Free Inquiry 18.4:23 Exposing the emperor's new clothes (Bricmont) **PRAYER SI 15.2:177 As medical treatment SI 18.4:408 Book review by Gary Posner Free Inquiry 17.3:27 Can science prove that prayer works? AmSkeptic 7.1:8 Study in The Lancet **PROBABILITY SI 11.4:376 Is the universe improbable? (Plus Fred Hoyle) SI 16.2:129 Paradoxes, and the three-door problem (Gardner) SI 16.4:440 Paradoxes (letters) Skeptic 9.4.17: Lies, damn lies, and statistics **PSEUDOSCIENCE SI 9.1:36 What is pseudoscience? (Bunge) SI 9.1:48 Pseudoscience and the paranormal (Toulmin) SI 11.4:389 Fantasy in children's literature SI 12.4:376 Science and the occult SI 12.4:398 Wegener and pseudoscience SI 12.4:411 Pseudoscience in airline catalogues SI 13.1:70 Feyerabend, Roszak, etc SI 13.2:147 Precognition and Psychophysics SI 14.1:46 Feynman SI 16.1:46 Multicultural pseudoscience (Part 1) SI 16.2:162 Multicultural pseudoscience (Part 2): Magic Melanin SI 17.4:400 Pathological science from N-rays to cold fusion Skeptic 2.3:16 Recognizing pseudoscience Skeptic 3.2:17 David Fisher Skeptic 3.3:25 Steve Donnelly reviews Michael Shallis Skeptic 4.2:4 Steve Donnelly on anti-gravity Skeptic 4.3:14 Gyroscopes can't levitate UFOs Skeptic 6.5:11 Is light getting slower? (Donald Rooum) NS 94.1303 Lysenko and Darwinism NS 1412 Fringe science at the AAAS BS 1531 The Tasaday tribe NS 1705 Astronomers and pathological science Briefs 3.1:5 Canadian psychiatrist and "psychic driving" Laser 1.2:7 Arthur Lintgen reads record-grooves Laser 4.4:14 A new theory of gravity Laser Roundup 11 Arthur Lintgen reads record-grooves (Randi) Laser Roundup 37 The myth that bumblebees can't fly (Seckel) Skeptic 8.6:12 Qigong: Chinese pseudoscience (Alcock) SI 19.4:19 How to sell a pseudoscience SI 20.4:15 Pentagon grant funds alternative health study SI 20.4: Traditional medicine and pseudoscience in China Briefs 6.4:1 Pseudoscience on the Internet (Milton Rothman) SI 22.5:14 Temple University (Martin Gardner) **PSYCHIC DETECTIVES SI 12.4:403 SI 17.1:148 SI 17.1:159 SI 17.4:445 Laser 1.2:8 Los Angeles Police Department Laser Roundup 46 Pscyhics and the LAPD **PSYCHICS SI 3.3:16 Suzie Cottrell SI 3.3:22 Jeane Dixon's predictions SI 3.3:42 Chris Scott and Mike Hutchinson test Masuaki Kiyota SI 4.4:73 Suzie Cottrell (Eisenbud and Randi) SI 4.4:78 Hasted responds to the Kiyota test SI 5.2:17 Setting up a fake psychic (Singer and Benassi) SI 5.3:9 Predictions for 1980 SI 5.3:68 Suzie Cottrell (Eisenbud and Randi) SI 5.4:6 Tamara Rand assassination prediction hoax SI 5.4:15 Randi on James Hydrick and Alan Vaughan SI 6.1:4 The Tamara Rand Hoax SI 6.1:17 Hoebens on Gerard Croiset (Part 1) SI 6.1:63 Nicolas Walter reviews Hasted's "The Metal-Benders" SI 6.2:16 Predictions SI 6.2:32 Hoebens on Gerard Croiset (Part 2) SI 6.3:9 Predictions SI 6.4:15 Korchnoi loses chess games by "strange forces" SI 7.1:20 Prophecies SI 7.1:30 Randi on Nostradamus SI 7.1:38 Hoebens reviews a Nostradamus book SI 7.3:8 Predictions for 1982 SI 8.2:133 Magicians, scientists, and psychics SI 8.3:214 Shirley MacLaine SI 8.3:239 Kurtz on debunking and skepticism SI 8.4:296 Predictions for 1983 SI 8.4:299 African witches burnt at stake SI 9.1:18 Edgar Cayce SI 9.1:24 Quantum theory and the paranormal SI 9.1:75 Review of Colin Wilson's "The Psychic Detectives" SI 9.4:307 Predictions SI 10.1:60 The Fox sisters SI 10.3:286 Supplement to The Fox Sisters SI 10.4:290 Remote viewing SI 10.4:353 Remote viewing SI 11.1:15 Psychic's million-dollar jury award SI 11.2:135 A psychic on the jury SI 11.4:327 Unmasking of Jason Michaels (Busch) SI 11.4:335 Predictions SI 11.4:383 Psychics and computers SI 12.1:29 Lobsang Rampa (Gardner) SI 121.1:108 Oberg on psychic predictions of doom SI 12.2:119 Canada: Supreme Court rules against fortune-teller SI 12.2:122 Claim to find Colossus of Rhodes SI 12.4:364 Psi claims in China SI 13.1:23 Pentagon uses psychics to find missing man in Italy SI 13.1:46 Paranormal beliefs in China SI 13.2:168 Chinese psychic's pill-bottle demonstration SI 14.1:2 Randi tests psychics on TV SI 15.1:26 Prison terms for fortune tellers SI 15.2:123 Soccer predictions SI 15.2:209 Beloff on Hyman and Marks (letters) SI 16.1:61 Lucien exposes Alexander the quack prophet SI 16.3:239 Predictions SI 17.3:256 Predictions SI 18.1:110 Non-predictions Skeptic 2.2:5 Doris Collins and the Sun Skeptic 5.3:7 Why not to test a pscyhic (Part 1) Skeptic 5.4:7 Why not to test a psychic (Part 2) Skeptic 5.5:12 Smith and Blackburn (Gardner) Skeptic 6.1:16 Predictions Skeptic 6.3:6 Premanand NS 67.960 Randi at Psychic News NS 64.929 Crookes and spiritualism NS 1431 Psychic spies Briefs 2.2:3 Premanand Laser 4.4:15 Predictions Laser Roundup 47 Fortune telling and the LAPD Laser Roundup 49 Faraday and table turning Laser Roundup 50 Confessions of a leading psychic Basis Nov 1985 Bob Steiner as a fake psychic SI 18.3:234 1993 predictions SI 19.2:17 Predictions and End of the World SI 20.2:18 Predictions Skeptic 10.3:19 Ian Rowland, self-confessed psychic faker SI 21.2:40 The Book of Predictions: 15 years later Briefs 7.1:7 Offering rewards for psychic demonstrations Briefs 7.1:10 Psychics and missing children in Belgium SI 21.3:7 Mexican psychic plants a corpse SI 21.3:19 Jeane Dixon obituaries (C Eugene Emery) SI 21.3: 21 Jeane Dixon (Robert Sheaffer) Freethinker 117.6:11 Election predictions (1997) SI 22.1:6 Predictions for 1997 SI 22.1:21 Testing dermo-optical perception SI 22.1:50 Testing psychics (Richard Wiseman) SI 22.2:9 Houdini seance SI 22.3:5 Psychic telephone networks Briefs 8.2:7 Absence of mind **PSYCHIC SURGERY SI 13.2:124 Spiderman explains it SI 13.4:338 Psychic surgeon jailed Skeptic 9.1:19 Richard Wiseman **PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS EVALUATOR (PSE) SI 4.4:12 SI 4.4:44 (Klass) **PSYCHOLOGY SI 20.321 Report of CSICOP's Human Error Workshop SI 21.2:31 Gilovich: Some systematic biases of everyday judgment SI 21.2:36 Science, justification, and beliefs SI 21.3:29 Collective delusions: a skeptic's guide SI 22.1:41 Open minds and the argument from ignorance SI 22.2:23 The price of bad memories (Elilzabeth Loftus) SI 23.2:30 Psychology of the seance (Wiseman, Nyman, et al) **PSYCHOTHERAPY SI 15.4:407 Baker reviews Gambrill Skeptic 9.4:9 The social psychology of healing (Michael Heap) AmSkeptic 7.1:27 Psychotherapy forum debate AmSkeptic 7.1:28 Psychotherapy doesn't work **PUBLIC RELATIONS AmSkeptic 7.1:45 **PYRAMIDOLOGY Skeptic 3.3:8 Skeptic 5.3:13 Skeptic 6.4:18 **QUANTUM MECHANICS SI 15.1:51 Stenger Free Inquiry 18.1:57 Quantum spirituality (Victor Stenger) **QIGONG Skeptic 8.6:12 Qigong: Chinese pseudoscience (Alcock) **RADIOACTIVITY Biefs 7.2:10 Has the radioactive waste problem been solved? **RADIOISOTOPES SI19.1:39 Seaborg **RAJNEESH Skeptic 7.3:10 The failed guru **RANDI, James SI 14.1:12 Award from American Physical Society Skeptic 5.4:12 Interviewed by Steve Donnelly Laser 4.4:10 Interview SI 18.2:121 Nova program: Secrets of the Psychics SI 21.4:6 Pigasus awards SI 22.4:12 1998 awards **RECOVERY FROM ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR SI 15.3:227 A new trend **REFLEXOLOGY **REGRESSION EFFECT SI 23.2:24 Superstition and the regression effect SI 23.2:15 Martin Gardner **REICH, Wilhelm SI 13.1:26 Gardner SI 13.3:328 Orgone therapy (letters) SI 14.1:105 Orgone lives (letters) SI 16.3:237 Orgonomists meet in Princeton SI 19.5:43 Letters and journals reviewed SI 20.2:18 Reichean disciples **REINCARNATION SI 11.4:367 Linguistic analysis and reincarnation (Thomason) SI 12.4:386 Hypnosis and reincarnation Skeptic 4.4:7 Melvin Harris Skeptic 4.6:10 Michael Heap Laser 3.3:22 Melvin Harris SI 18.5:481 Stevenson's "most impressive" case SI 19.3:50 Stevenson and Leonard angel Briefs 8.1:1 A case re-examined (Joe Nickell) **RELATIVISM Free Inquiry 17.3:40 What's wrong with relativism **RELIGION SI 9.3:213 Martin Gardner SI 10.1:90 Letters, and Gardner's reply Skeptic 4.2:10 The Moses Barrier Skeptic 6.2:7 Arguments to Design (Antony Flew) Skeptic 6.3:16 Chapman Cohen Skeptic 7.2:5 First ten books of the Old Testament are fiction Skeptic 7.3:5 Israel's planetarium off-limits to believers NS 1490 Food taboos NS 1833 Peter Atkins Briefs 3.1:3 Religion and psychiatry (Baker) Laser Roundup 6 Ayala Australian Skeptic 20 Adam and Ave and thermodynamics New Humanist p173 Siting of mosque in Regent's Park SI 20.2:7 Milk-drinking idols Freethinker 117.4:2 Islamophobia Freethinker 117.4:11 British Jewry's sectarian strife Free Inquiry 17.1:15 The Polish Church as an enemy of the Open Society Free Inquiry 17.1:31 Disbelievers among the famous Free Inquiry 17.2:57 Disbelievers among the famous Free Inquiry 17.1:65 Religion and crime (letter) Freethinker 117.5:4 Woody Allen on Judaism Freethinker 117.5:6 Carl Sagan on Jewish belief in 6000-year-old Earth Freethinker 117.5:9 Heaven's Gate suicide cult Freethinker 117.6:4 Disasters attending the hajj Freethinker 117.6: 7 Biblical offences demanding the death penalty Freethinker 117.6:1 Religion and the Labour party Freethinker 117.8:9 The Vatican and holocaust gold SI 21.4:12 Heaven's gate cult SI 21.4:15 Heaven's gate: the UFO cult of Bo and Peep (Martin Gardner) SI 21.3: 18 Heaven's gate: UFO cult (Joe Nickell) SI 21.3: 22 Heaven's gate and journalistic integrity Free Inquiry 17.3:32 Does morality require God? Free Inquiry 17.3:45 Absurdities of the gods (Ingersoll) Freethinker 117.9:11 Lourdes SI 21.6:30 The Bible code - "hidden messages" in the bible Freethinker 117.9:3 Religious discrimination in the UK Freethinker 117.9:2 Virgin Mary to be declared Co-Redemptrix? Free Inquiry 17.4:24 Religion versus sex Free Inquiry 17.4:44 Faith versus medicine Freethinker 118.2: UK religions seek exemption from Human Rights Bill Freethinker 118.2:11 Catholics versus Protestants in Ireland Free Inquiry 18.1:33 Taking the measure of Carl Sagan and Mother Theresa Freethinker 118.5:3 Statistics of Religious Trends 1998-99 Freethinker 118.5:13 St Patrick: myth, not man Freethinker 118.6:2 Muslims cause withdrawal of football Freethinker 118.6:3 Religious representation in the House of Lords Freethinker 118.6:3 Religous assemblies in UK schools Freethinker 118.7:6 Missionary statistics 1998-9 Freethinker 118.7:2 Religionists against homosexuality Freethinker 118.7:11 The Mormons open a new temple in Lancashire Freethinker 118.8:2 Christianity's victims Freethinker 118.8:3 A Humanist mayor and chaplain for Lewisham, London Freethinker 118.8:8 The sex-obsessive celibate pope Freethinker 118.8:10 Peniel Pentecostal Church takes over Tory branch Freethinker 118.9:3 Superstition gains a foothold in the Millennium Dome Freethinker 118.9:4 National Secular Society vs religious discrimination Freethinker 118.9:5 The pope's miracle machine Freethinker 118.9:7 Islamophobia Freethinker 118.9:8 Hell Freethinker 118.9:10 The Alpha Course Freethinker 118.9:10 Spanish taxpayers snub the Catholic Church Freethinker 118.9:11 Does anybody believe in God? Freethinker 118.9:12 The Alpha movement Freethinker 118.11:9 Blasphemy warrant against Taslima Nasreen Freethinker 118.11:18 Virgin goddesses SI 23.4: Special issue: Science and Religion SI 23.4:8 Darwin's religious views SI 23.4:14 The Davenport Brothers - religious or frauds? SI 23.1:25 The Bible and prophets of doom (Gerald Larue) Freethinker 119.8:8 The Vatican and the UN Free Inquiry 18.2:6 The emptiness of theology (Richard Dawkins) Free Inquiry 18.2:18 Religion and science (Richard Dawkins) Free Inquiry 18.4:42 God and the philosophers Free Inquiry 18.4:48 The Bible and astronomy **REMOTE VIEWING SI 10.3:290 Targ and Puthoff transcripts released SI 10.4:353 Recollections of SRI SI 14.4:345 Statistics and Jahn SI 17.4:357 Remote viewing plagued with defects **REPRESENTATIVENESS HEURISTIC SI 20.2:34 Gilovich and Savitzky **REVERSE SPEECH Skeptic 10.4:20 Toby Howard **RISK SI 22.5:32 Calculated risks **RISK FACTORS Briefs 5.1:12 **RUNES Skeptic 11.1:8 Runes, Vikings, and the New Age **RUSSIA SI 20.4:54 Popularizing science as a tool against anti-science **SAGAN, Carl SI 10.3:218 Sense and nonsense at the edge of science SI 14.3:263 Why we need to understand science SI 21.2:5 Tributes on his death SI 21.3:55 More tributes Free Inquiry 17.2:8 The honest agnostic **SAINTS Freethinker 119.5:8 Criteria for sainthood **SATANISM SI 12.4:416 The bar-code beast SI 13.1;50 Backward masking SI 13.2:218 The bar-code beast (letter) SI 13.3:326 Backmasking (letters) SI 14.2:221 Backmasking (letters) SI 14.3:176 Police pursuit of satanic crime (Part 1) SI 14.3:287 The spread of Satanic-cult rumors SI 14.4:378 Police pursuit of satanic crime (Part 2) SI 15.1:36 SI 15.1:99 Police, media, and satanism (letters) SI 15.3:274 Survivor stories SI 15.4:412 Review of two books (including Robert Hicks) SI 16.1:21 Procter and Gamble's logo and satanism SI 16.1:104 Satanic cult stories (letters) SI 17.4:376 Satanic cults SI 18.5:474 Satanism in Texas (Sheaffer) Skeptic 8.5:9 Satanic logos Skeptic 9.1:11 Satanic abuse: fact or fiction? Free Inquiry 16.2:65 Two-thirds of Americans believe in Satan SI 20.3: Robert Baker reviews "Satan's Silence' **SCHMIDT, Helmut SI 5.3:26 Hansel, then Hyman, on psychokinesis tests **SCIENCE SI 10.3:218 Sense and nonsense at the edge of science (Sagan) SI 14.1:25 Myths about science (Rothman) SI 14.1:35 The Relativity of Wrong (Asimov) SI 14.1:57 The two cultures SI 14.3:263 Why we need to understand science (Sagan) SI 14.4:353 Relativism in science (Gardner) SI 15.1:62 Science and Sir William Crookes SI 15.2:211 Relativism in science (Gardner and critic) Skeptic 1.1:5 Starting antiscience (Central TV's schools series) NS 1760 Problems for Einstein's theory Briefs 2.4:8 Statistics and coincidences (Baker) Briefs 3.3:5 Meteorites Offprint 1 (BAAS) Science and parascience (Harry Collins) SI 18.2:118 Supreme Court and expert scientific testimony SI 19.1:24 Wonder and Skepticism (Sagan) SI 19.1:37 The astonishing hypothesis (Crick) SI 19.2:14 Science and beauty (Martin Gardner) SI 19.2:38 Antiscience in Academia SI 21.2:36 Science, justification, and beliefs Briefs 7.1:5 Milton Rothman: treatment of new ideas in science SI 22.1:13 The dangers of dihydrogen monoxide SI 22.2:25 Science in the public eye SI 22.2:28 Science, delusion, and the appetite for wonder (Dawkins) Briefs 8.1:3 Seeing what happens (observation or theory first?) Briefs 8.1:4 Questioning truth and reality (Stenger) SI 22.3:13 Zero-point energy and Harold Puthoff (Martin Gardner) SI 22.6:20 Science and the unknowable Free Inquiry 18.4:16 Unbelief among scientists **SCIENTOLOGY Zetetic 2.1:102 De Mille book review SI 13.2:125 Donating "Dianetics" to libraries SI 16.3:241 Legal loss in Norway SI 19.5:12 Scientology versus the Internet Skeptic 4.6:17 Skeptic 5.3: Skeptic 6.2:9 Dianetics Freethinker 118.5:11 A Scientologist in the House of Lords Freethinker 118.9:13 Scientologists win an apology from Computer Shopper AmSkeptic 7.1:10 In Rusia, Europe, America **SHELDRAKE SI 11.2:128 Gardner SI 12.3:298 Morphic resonance in silicon chips SI 13.1:100 Sheldrake (letters) SI 13.2:203 Morphic resonance in silicon chips (follow-up) SI 13.4:438 (letters) Skeptic 2.4:20 David Fisher reviews "The Presence of the Past" NS 100.1381 (with pictures) **SHROUD OF TURIN SI 6.3:15 Critical appraisal SI 6.3:35 Walter McCrone SI 6.3:37 Reviews of books by Ian Wilson etc SI 7.3:90 Pro and con letters SI 13.2:117 Found to be medieval SI 13.3:296 Nickell SI 15.4:417 Gordon Stein reviews Kenneth E Stevenson Skeptic 2.6:15 Steve Donnelly interviews Joe Nickell NS 1596 NS 1626 NS 1653 Neutron theory fails to support NS 1684 Errors affect dating technique SI 18.4:343 Tablecloth from the Last Supper? Fake by Da Vinci? SI 18.4:379 Pollens a fake addition Briefs 7.4:7 From truth to fantasy (Joe Nickell) SI 22.4:20 "Shroud Science" (Joe Nickell) Free Inquiry 18.2:48 Joe Nickell **SKEPTICISM Skeptic 3.5:10 Antony Flew Skeptic 5.1:118 David Fisher Skeptic 5.3:9 Ian Woods Skeptic 7.2:15 Skepticism - 1895 style Laser 3.2:12 The role of the heretic (Asimov) Laser 3.3:6 Proper criticism (Hyman) Australian Skeptic 34 Skepticism and knowledge SI 20.4:34 Critical thinking and doomsday models SI 22.4:40 Planting a seed of doubt (Elie Shneour) **SLAPP SUITS SI 17.3:245 Strategic suits against public participation **SNAKE HANDLING Free Inquiry 16.2:57 Review of "Taking up Serpents" (Joe Nickell) **SPEAKING IN TONGUES Skeptic 5.3:15 **SPEED READING Laser 3.1:8 **SPIRITUALISTS SI 8.2:165 Martin Gardner reviews Brandon's "The Spiritualists" SI 8.4:334 Sir Oliver Lodge and the spiritualists SI 19.4: Rose Mackenberg: crusader against spiritualist fraud **SPONTANEOUS HUMAN COMBUSTION (SHC) SI 11.4:353 Nickell and Fischer NS 1508 NS 1510 SI 12.2:217 (letters) NS 1613 SI 20.6:17 Joe Nickell reviews "Ablaze" by Larry E Arnold Briefs 6.4:8 Spontaneous human nonsense (Joe Nickell) SI 22.2:15 Joe Nickell SI 22.2:47 Thoughts of a forensic biologist Skeptic 11.4:17 Charles Dickens, alcohol, and SHC **STATEMENT ANALYSIS SI 23.3:41 SCAN or scam? **STEINER, Rudolf SI 16.1:23 Schools SI 16.3:330 Freethinker 117.6:5 **STIMULATOR SI 21.3:8 **SUBLIMINAL PERCEPTION SI 11.4:358 About Wilson Bryan Key SI 12.2:189 SI 12.2:211 Wilson Bryan Key (letters) SI 12.2:216 Subliminal tapes SI 13.1:50 Backward masking SI 13.3:326 Backward masking (letters) SI 13.4:427 SI 14.2:221 Backmasking (letters) SI 16.3:260 James Vicary and subliminal persuasion SI 16.3:273 SI 16.3:282 Subliminal tapes SI 16.4:349 Tests with bogus tapes SI 17.1:99 Subliminal advertising (letters) Skeptic 6.2:4 British Psychological Society reports on tapes SI 20.2:16 Subliminal stories in the media SI 20.6 The Judas Priest trial **SUPERSTITION Briefs 7.2:12 Maharashtra's superstition eradication committee SI 23.2:24 Superstition and the regression effect **TAI CHI SI 22.4:13 Failed test **TAIWAN Briefs 7.2:8 Imported paranormal beliefs in Taiwan **TALK SHOWS SI 19.4:12 **TAROT Skeptic 3.5:17 Skeptic 7.1:11 History of the tarot **TESLA SI 19.1:65 Letters Skeptic 9.1:8 The Tesla Museum **THEOSOPHY Freethinker 117.6:5 **THERAPEUTIC TOUCH SI 17.1:169 Why do nurses believe? SI 17.3:327 Support from Colorado Board of Nursing SI 17.4:450 (letters) SI 18.3:232 Report of University of Colorado Skeptic 8.5:16 SI 21.3:53 University of Alabama at Birmingham: Final report SI 22.3:6 TT fails a rare scientific test SI 22.4:31 An evaluation Briefs 8.4:3 A touching story **THREE-DOOR PROBLEM SI 15.4:342 SI 16.2:129 Gardner SI 16.2:192 Frazier SI 16.4:440 (letters) SI 16.4:442 (letters) **TIDES SI 18.5:509 Ocean tides, and tidal forces on people **TITANIC SI 15.3:244 Was the wreck foretold? (Martin Gardner) SI 19.4:30 Did the moon sink the Titanic? **TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Zetetic 1.2:38 Zetetic 1.2:91 Truzzi reviews "TM Secret Manuscript" SI 8.2:143 TM and the weather Skeptic 7.2:17 Skeptic 7.3:16 Skepticism or cynicism? Skeptic 7.4:15 It's all in the mind Skeptic 7.4:27 No value NS 1776 Blackmore Briefs 2.3:1 Natural Law Party Laser Roundup Fakirs (Seckel) SI 18.3: Natural Law Party in Canada **UFOS Zetetic 1.2:72 Book reviews (Hynek, Vallee) by Sheaffer Zetetic 1.2:88 Oberg reviews "UFOlogy" Zetetic 2.1:10 Soviet "jellyfish" UFO Zetetic 2.1:84 Klass book review SI 3.1:39 Astronaut UFO sightings (Oberg) SI 3.1:56 The Sirius mystery (Ian Ridpath) SI 3.3:5 New Zealand UFO SI 3.3:8 Omni SI 2.2:72 NASA and the White House SI 3.2:4 Gallup polls (Klass) SI 3.2:7 Lessons of an IFO SI 3.2:9 Soviet "jellyfish" UFO SI 3.2:49 Tunguska SI 3.2:64 Sheaffer reviews the Hynek UFO report SI 3.3:49 Klass on Hynek SI 4.1:6 Vallee against skeptics SI 5.3:16 Hypnosis and abductions (Klass) SI 5.3:47 Travis Walton SI 5.3:65 Klass reviews Story's "UFOs and the limits of science" SI 6.1:58 Abell reviews Sheaffer's "The UFO Verdict" SI 6.2:10 Kidnapping, abductions, and Travis Walton SI 6.3:68 Sheaffer reviews "Project Identification" (Rutledge) SI 6.4:5 Lens flares as UFOs SI 7.2:48 Klass on a pilot's report of a UFO SI 7.2:68 Taves reviews "The Andreasson Affair, Phase Two" SI 7.3:83 Rutledge replies to Sheaffer SI 8.2:168 Review of Klass's "UFOs - the public deceived" SI 8.2:173 Review of Oberg's "UFOs and outer-space mysteries" SI 8.4:355 Psychology and UFOs SI 9.1:56 Critique of Hynek SI 9.2:171 Klass reviews Government coverup SI 9.3:257 Radar UFOs (Klass) SI 10.1:69 The Saguaro incident SI 10.3:209 Rendlesham UFO (Ian Ridpath) SI 10.3:234 Crashed-saucer claim (Klass) SI 10.4:328 The Condon study SI 11.1:19 Hynek obituary (Klass) SI 11.1:77 The Woodbridge (Rendlesham) UFO (Ridpath) SI 11.2:159 The Great East Coast UFO of August 1986 (Oberg) SI 11.2:221 The Condon study (letters) SI 11.3:314 Klass and critics SI 11.4:322 JAL pilot's report SI 11.4:425 The Rendlesham UFO (Campbell/Ridpath) SI 12.1:106 Condon report (letters) SI 12.2:137 The MJ-12 crashed saucer documents (Klass) SI 12.2:147 Hypnotic regression and abductees (Baker) SI 12.2:220 Woodbridge (Rendlesham) UFO (Campbell) SI 12.3:233 Chinese sighting SI 12.3:263 Alien abduction SI 12.3:270 Alien-abduction claims SI 12.3:279 The MJ-12 papers: Part 2 (Klass) SI 12.4:339 MJ-12 SI 12.4:349 The Nullarbor UFO SI 12.4:419 Review of Klass's "UFO-abductions" (Baker) SI 13.2:130 Gulf Breeze SI 13.3:305 MJ-12 (Klass) SI 14.1:65 Top secret UFO papers (Klass) SI 14.2:135 MJ-12 SI 14.2:171 The Airship Hysteria of 1896-97 Robert E. Bartholomew SI 15.2:135 Gulf Breeze SI 15.2:181 Klass reviews book on Government's "secret quest" SI 15.2:188 Review of book about therapists and abductees SI 15.3:234 Lights in the sky over Washington SI 15.3:281 The Kecksburg incident SI 15.3:330 The New Zealand UFO SI 15.4:359 Gulf Breeze SI 16.3:287 The Avro VZ-9 Flying Saucer SI 16.4:400 Ghost lights of Texas SI 16.4:428 Crash at Roswell? SI 17.1:142 3.7 million Americans kidnapped by aliens? SI 17.1:180 The Big Sur UFO identified SI 17.4:444 UFO-abduction test lacks validity SI 18.1:3 UFO dogfight: a ballooning tale SI 18.1:50 Alien kidnappings and memory Skeptic 1.2:9 A Spanish close encounter Skeptic 1.4:14 Two Spanish UFOs turn out to be Soviet missiles Skeptic 3.5:12 The Nullarbor UFo mystery - solved Skeptic 4.3:14 Gyroscopes can't levitate UFOs Skeptic 4.3:7 Dave Langford's spoof book Skeptic 4.4:4 UFOs on TV (Steve Donnelly) Skeptic 4.4:12 The Scarborough Saucer Crash Skeptic 4.5:31 A UFO in the eye Skeptic 4.6:12 The man who invented flying saucers Skeptic 5.2:16 1991 - the final crash of the UFOs? Skeptic 6.1:6 Filing "flying saucers" (Hilary Evans) Skeptic 6.1:14 The silver man: hoax picture of an alien Skeptic 6.3:5 Within 100 yards of a Britannia Airways Boeing 737 Skeptic 6.3:8 Do-it-yourself UFOs (Dave Mitchell) Skeptic 6.3:10 Questions to ask alien visitors Skeptics 6.4:27 UFO balloons NS 75.1060 NS 84.1176 NS 89.1235 Fireballs and UFOs NS 92.1285 Russian UFO NS 97.1344 NS 99.1373 NS 1446 Magnetization of cars NS 1614 Dave Langford's UFO spoof Briefs 2.3:4 Gulf Breeze Briefs 2.3:8 The alien-abduction bonanza (Baker) Laser Roundup 61 Interview with Al Hibbs Laser Roundup 66 The gullibility factor Skeptic 8.2:23 Randles reviews Steuart Campbell Skeptic 8.3:17 Origins of the flying saucer myth SI 18.3:239 Psychology of the UFO experience (Baker) SI 18.5:455 The Roswell "UFO" crash Skeptic 8.4:10 Alien abductions (Blackmore) NS 1952 Alien abductions (Blackmore) SI 19.1:22 Roswell: the movie SI 19.1:41 The Air Force Report SI 19.2:3 Profile of people who report UFOs Skeptic 9.2:17 Origins of alien stereotypes (Part 1) Skeptic 9.3:12 Origins of alien stereotypes (Part 2) SI 19.4:15 Roswell and Project Mogul SI 19.5:3 Harvard versus John Mack SI 20.2:6 Roswell guide to articles SI 20.2:48 The Billy Meier Story (review) SI 20.2:57 Roswell: flaws in the autopsy film Skeptic 10.2:8 Changes in speed over the years/Kenneth Arnold SI 20.3:18 Fantasy proneness in John Mack's "Abduction" Skeptic 10.3:27 Steuart Campbell (letter) on Kenneth Arnold Skeptic 10.4:12 Abduction theory (Nick Rose) Skeptic 10.4:27 Kenneth Arnold (Martin S Kottmeyer) SI 20.6:5 The "Roswell fragment" - case closed SI 20.6:6 "Penthouse" and the alien autopsy SI 20.6:29 Philip Klass reviews TV's cover-up of evidence SI 20.6:54 Roswell - 6 different sites "identified" Briefs 6.4: 4 The lost meteorological blimp SI 21.2:29 An astronomer's personal statement (Alan Hale) SI 21.2:49 Review of "Witnessed" (Budd Hopkins) Briefs 7.1:1 Heaven's Gate cult suicide: belief in UFOs not so harmless Briefs 7.1:2 Robert Baker on Strieber's "The Secret School" Briefs 7.1:4 Joe Nickell on UFO photographs Briefs 7.1:9 Aliens conduct medical procedures on abductees Skeptic 11.1:13 Blackmore: Alien abduction Briefs 7 2:3 The Roswell legacy (Joe Nickell) Briefs 7.2: An alien taxonomy (Robert Baker) SI 21.4:5 Anachronistic danger sign in "Alien Autopsy" film SI 21.4:12 Heaven's gate cult SI 21.3: 15 Heaven's gate: the UFO cult of Bo and Peep (Martin Gardner) SI 21.3: 18 Heaven's gate: UFO cult (Joe Nickell) SI 21.3: 22 Heaven's gate and journalistic integrity SI 21.4: What really happened at Roswell SI 21.4: 30 Interview with Karl Korff SI 21.4:31 "Alien Autopsy" - Son casts doubt on originator's credibilty SI 21.5:5 Roswell hysteria SI 21.5:8 News accounts of UFOs affect beliefs SI 21.5: 22 The truth is, they never were saucers (Sheaffer) SI 21.6: Roswell - TV cover-up continues SI 21.6:8 Roswell - New fragment? The isotopes say no SI 21.6: Roswell - information from the medical supply officer Briefs 7.4:9 Flying saucer shapes in sci-fi from 1929 Skeptic 11.3:6 Analysing an "alien" implant (Blackmore) Skeptic 11.3:10 Airships: the UFOs on 1912-13 SI 22.3:16 Alien abductioins as sleep-related phenomena (Joe Nickell) SI 22.3:23 Abduction by aliens or sleep paralysis? (Susan Blackmore) SI 22.3:29 Before Roswell: the meaning behind the crashed-UFO myth SI 22.3:31 Case closed: reflections on the Air Force Roswell report SI 22.3:37 Gray Barker, who brought the "Men in Black" to prominence SI 22.3:40 A skeptic living in Roswell SI 22.5: Media gullibility SI 22.5:12 The Aztec UFO hoax SI 22.5:18 Alien implants: the new "hard evidence" SI 22.5:21 UFOlogists shoot for the moon (Robert Sheaffer) SI 23.2:7 Eight alien autopsy films SI 23.2:13 Dummy drops and Roswell **UNICORNS Skeptic 9.2:9 **UNITED NATIONS Free Inquiry 18.2:8 Humanists report discrimination to the UN Free Inquiry 18.2:8 **URBAN MYTHS SI 19.2:32 "Lights out!" a faxlore phenomenon SI 23.3:29 The snuff film SI 23.3:34 The organ-snatching urban legends **URINE THERAPY SI 23.3:13 Martin Gardner **VAMPIRES SI 17.1:81 SI 17.3:339 New England vampire beliefs (letters) Skeptic 6.5:9 The Cumbrian vampire SI 20.2:41 Vampires in folklore and fiction SI 20.4:63 Letter from a pathologist **VEGETARIANISM Free Inquiry 18.4:54 The limits of ethical vegetarianism **VELIKOVSKY SI 2.2:84 Abell reviews "Scientists confront Velikovsky" SI 3.2:68 Abell on his Velikovsky review SI 8.2:154 Venus and Velikovsky: original sources SI 9.3:284 Review of "Cosmic Heretics" (de Grazia) SI 11.3:282 Velikovsky's use of evidence from China NS 78.1099 **VETERINARY PSEUDOSCIENCE SI 22.6:18 Council against health fraud concerned **VIVISECTION Skeptic 8.3:6 Pseudoscientific claims **VON D€NIKEN, Erich Zetetic 2.1:22 Ronald D Story SI 3.2:33 Chariots of the Gullible **WANDERING JEW Free Inquiry 15.3:31 Martin Gardner **"WAR OF THE WORLDS" (Orson Welles) Laser 3.3:20 SI 22.6:40 What have we learned from the Martian panic? **WATER CURE Skeptic 8.3:12 **WATER DIVINING (see DOWSING) **WATSON, Lyall SI 18.1:76 Baker reviews "The Nature of Things" **WITCHCRAFT SI 15.3:290 In Nigeria Free Inquiry 17.2:44 The myth of the innocent child **YETI (see ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN)