Features
Skeptiquette
Simon Hoggart explores the consequences of taking too deep an interest in the paranormal
It’s Dangerous to Talk
Is your mobile phone really killing you? Wendy M. Grossman looks at the current scare
A Close Encounter of the Fireball Kind?
Steuart Campbell proposes an explanation for a 1995 UFO sighting
Emergent Stupidity
Is tool-using intelligence really the evolutionary advantage we imagine it to be?
David Hambling considers the question
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
Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Robert Park
Star in the East: Krishnamurti, the Invention of a Messiah by Roland Vernon
Dreaming the Future: the Fantastic Story of Prediction by Clifford A Pickover
The Secret Scroll: a Quest for the Grail by Andrew Sinclair
Test Your Science IQ by Charles J Cazeau
Deep Time: Cladistics: the Revolution in Evolution by Henry Gee
The Gateway to Atlantis: The Search for the Source of a Lost Civilisation by Andrew Collins
The UFOs That Never Were by Jenny Randles, Andy Roberts and David Clarke
Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against Evolutionary Psychology by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose (Editors)
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field by Kary Mullis
The Man Who Found the Missing Link: the Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois by Pat Shipman
News and comment
Editorial: Skeptic in Chains
Wendy M. Grossman
Skeptical Stats
A column based on the observation that sometimes statistics don’t lie – they’re just plain crazy…
Hits and Misses
Computer firings
The myth of the Jedi
This way to the Egress
Oink, flap, oink, flap . . .
Maria Duval continued
Sinking logic
Philosopher’s Corner
Julian Baggini
Rhyme and Reason: Death on the brain
Steven Donnelly
Letters from our readers
The media and Dr. French by Montague Keen
