Features:
Simon Singh & Edzard Ernst on The First Quackbusters
Edzard Ernst on The New College of Medicine
Andy Wilson on How to Take an Overdose
Mahlon Wagner on Therapeutic Touch
Luke Mason on Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
Alan Henness on The Nightingale Collaboration
Richard Wiseman on the first experiment into eyewitness testimony
Jason Braithwaite on Magnetic fields, hallucinations and anomalous experiences
Klaus Schmeh on hidden messages in the bible
An anonymous author on claims of recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse
George Wells on Christianity and evolution
Chris French interviews Richard Wiseman about magic, parapsychology and scepticism
Benjamin Radford on spotting faulty reasoning
Nathalie Nahai reviews TAM London 2010
Also:
Editorial; Chris French & Deborah Hyde
Hits and Misses; Mark Williams on abandoning rational thought: how trial by tape measure can lead to a death sentence, food tubes in Croydon, American ownership of the internet, psychics being unable to predict the lottery, and militant secularism (featuring a contribution from Andrew Copson). Also featuring Lizzie Rogers on the BHA Census Campaign, Liam Proven’s Questival review and Matthew Smith on becoming a million dollar psychic.
Skeptic at Large; Wendy Grossman on what should sceptics do
Philosopher’s Corner; Julian Baggini on Foreign Aid and the Morality of Giving
Reasonable Doubt; Chris French on publication bias
Through a Looking Glass Darkly; Mike Heap on Addressing the Needs of Professionals
Galileo’s Doughnuts; Mark Duwe on Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Skeptical Stats; Mark Williams with the observation that sometimes statistics don’t lie – they’re just plain crazy
Focus On; exploring The Association for Skeptical Inquiry
Cover art from Neil Davies, Crispian Jago and Chris Fix
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 Andrew Endersby
Pictures from Hilary Evans’ Paranormal Picture Gallery
Bible stories illustrated by Barbara Griffiths
Book Reviews
Richard Wiseman’s Paranormality: Why we see what isn’t there, reviewed by Deborah Hyde
Colin Wilson’s Beyond Belief: Twenty year’s research into the paranormal; reviewed by Mark Newbrook
Richard Wiseman’s 59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lot; reviewed by Kylie Sturgess
Michael Jawer & Marc Micozzi’s The Spiritual Anatomy of emotion: How feelings link the brain the body and the sixth sense; reviewed by Ray Ward
Michael Brooks’ 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: The most intriguing scientific mysteries of our time; reviewed by Ray Ward
Ronald Fritze’s Invented Knowledge: False history, fake science and pseudo-religions; reviewed by Mark Newbrook
Scott Lilenfeld, Stephen Jay Lynn, John Ruscio & Barry L Beyerstein’s 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Sharrering widespread misconceptions about human behaviour; reviewed by James Munroe
Letters from our readers
George Wells on Pope Benedict and ‘Newmania’
Steuard Campbell with More on the JFK Assassination
Ray Ward replies to Steuart Campbell
Barbara Gleve on being Irritated by Supersense
