Volume 16 Number 1, Spring 2003

Features

What are we to make of Exceptional Experience? Part 1: Remote Viewing
David Marks begins his three-part assessment of parapsychology with a critical view of remote viewing

Michael Bentine: Behind the Door
Matthew Coniam finds that Bentine was guilty of paranormal double-think

Psychoanalysis: Science or Pseudoscience?
Anna Järvinen considers the status of Freudian theory

Coming Soon to an Office Near You ...
Sadly, Martin Parkinson is unable to respond to inspirational leadership

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

XTL : Extraterrestrial Life and How to Find it by Simon Goodwin and John Gribbin

Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson

Seeing Ghosts: Experiences of the Paranormal by Hilary Evans

Skeptical Philosophy for Everyone by Richard H. Popkin and Avrum Stroll

Think for Yourself: Questioning Pressure to Conform by Dr Sharon Presley

Demons of the Modern World by Malcolm McGrath

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
Remote viewers need chocolate, too
Jaws: the re-enactment
Attack on the clones
The Really Big Greeting
Men on the moon

Skeptic at large: Distinguishable from intelligence
Wendy M Grossman

Philosopher’s Corner
Julian Baggini

Rhyme and Reason: They should have seen it coming . . .
Steven Donnelly

From Michael Heap
Chairman of the Association for Skeptical Enquiry

Letters from our readers
Roswell
Keen’s response to French