Volume 21 Number 3, Autumn 2008

Features

Making UFOlogy History
David Clarke reviews three books on classic UFO cases published 60 years after the birth of UFOlogy

The recovered memory debate:
False memories of the memory literature?
James Ost analyzes and critiques a body of false memory literature

Profits of the New Age
Jon Cohen reports on a sceptical day spent at The Mystic Arts Exhibition, 2008

 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
Pictures from Hilary Evans’ Paranormal Picture Gallery

Science and Religions: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Dixon
The Satanic Scriptures by Peter H. Gilmore
In God We Doubt: Confessions of a  Failed Atheist by John Humphrys
How to Be a Good Atheist by Nick Harding

News and comment

Editorial
Chris French and Lindsay Kallis

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

Hits and Misses
Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Plait
Denver, the most inviting place on Earth
The end of the world is pretty
Little Atoms

Skeptic at large: Spot the Ball
Wendy M Grossman

Philosopher’s Corner
Julian Baggini

From Michael Heap
Chairman of the Association for Skeptical Enquiry

Letters from our readers
Einstein, Darwin and Religion
Sceptical Journals