Volume 19 Number 1, Spring 2006

Features

Second Sight? Or Just the Blind Leading the Blind?
Krissy Wilson reviews the not-so-amazing performance of psychic Sharon Neill

Just Your Imagination? Part 1: Acting
Martin Parkinson looks at some of the things he learned in drama class…

The Mystery of Hellfire Pass: Part Three
Paul Chambers and Robert Bartholomew round off their investigation into the ‘Phantom Sniper of Esher’

Natural Science and the Spirit World: Part One
The following is the first of two instalments of an article taken from Freiedrich Engels’ Dialectics of Nature…

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

Darwin's Legacy: What evolution means today by John Dupré
Eight Preposterous Propositions by Robert Ehrlich
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Michael Hanlon

News and comment

Editorial
Victoria Hamilton 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
Hypnotic enhancement
Al-most Haunted?
Alternative deception
Cold comfort
MMR in the clear
Individualism
CSICOP goes to the UN

Skeptic at large
Wendy M Grossman

Rhyme and Reason: Nothing but the Truth?
Steve Donnelly

Philosopher’s Corner
Julian Baggini

From Michael Heap
Chairman of the Association for Skeptical Enquiry

Letters from our readers
A rebuttal