Volume 16 Number 2, Summer 2003

Features

What are we to make of Exceptional Experience? Part 2: Ganzfeld Studies
In the second part of his three-part assessment of parapsychology, David Marks focuses on the ganzfeld technique

Life from Non-Life: Must We Accept a Supernatural Explanation?
Scientists are far from being able to explain exactly how life on earth began. Must we accept that life has a supernatural
origin? Steve Stewart-Williams investigates …

The Misfit World of Derek Acorah
Matthew Coniam witnesses a bad night for a psychic medium

Humour

Sprite, by Donald Rooum, the ongoing saga of an ethereal being who has the misfortune to fall for a confirmed skeptic.
Cartoons by Tim Pearce and The Parking Lot is Full
Pictures from Hilary Evans’ Paranormal Picture Gallery

Book reviews

The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science by Taner Edis
Aliens: Can We Make Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence? by Andrew J H Clark and David H Clark
The Mind Made Flesh: Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution by Nicholas Humphrey
UFOs and How to See Them by Jenny Randles
The Mammoth Book of UFOs by Lynn Picknett
Rivals: Conflict as the Fuel of Science by Michael White
Darwin’s Mistake: Antediluvian Discoveries Prove Dinosaurs and Humans co-existed by Dr. Hans J Zillmer

News and comment

Editorial
Julia Nunn and Chris French

Skeptical Stats
A column based on the observation that sometimes statistics don’t lie - they’re just plain crazy...

Hits and Misses
Bugs: the memory
Bigfoot is dead
Science in the courtroom
Bad science
Mad science

Skeptic at large: Whatever remains, Watson, however improbable…
Wendy M Grossman

Philosopher’s Corner
Julian Baggini

Rhyme and Reason: The Last Post
Steven Donnelly

From Michael Heap
Chairman of the Association for Skeptical Enquiry

Letters from our readers
Youens takes up Keen’s challenge