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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