Magazine
Volume 14 Number 4, Winter 2001
Features
How Big is an Alien Big Cat?
An exploration of the notoriously elusive Alien Big Cats by David Hambling
Born That Way? A Brief Look at the Sexual Orientation Controversy
Barry F. Seidman advocates a scientific approach to understanding homosexuality
Post-Modernism and Parapsychology
Ron Roberts wonders if we are losing our sense of reality
Nostradamus Said What?
David Hambling takes a look at the predictions of Nostradamus in relation to the tragic events that took place in America on September 11th 2001
Volume 14 Number 2, Summer 2001
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
Volume 15 Number 1, Spring 2002
Features
Questioning Randi
Tony Youens provides us with an exclusive interview with James “the Amazing” Randi
The Missing Airmen
It is a small enigma in a world of unceasing strangeness, but there in Charles Fort’s Wild Talents, at the start of Chapter 17, is the bizarre case of the vanishing airmen. Paul Chambers investigates…
Mrs. Gaskell’s Elephant: The Story of a Hoax
by Chris Willis
Wild About Harry
Chris Willis takes a look at children’s fiction in the light of criticisms by religious fundamentalists
Volume 15 Number 2, Summer 2002
Features
Ear Candles – The Brain Softening Effect: An Instructive Tale
Norman Pridmore reflects upon his personal crusade against a pseudoscientific therapy
Science or Non-science?
Doug Bramwell examines the features which distinguish science from pseudoscience
A Case of Spirits
Chris Willis looks at the history of spirit photography
Do Astrologers Have To Believe In Astrology?
Nick Campion questions whether “belief ” is a useful concept when applied to astrology
Volume 21 Number 2, Summer 2008
Features
Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of the Dying Brain
Jason J Braithwaite offers an in-depth analysis and critique of the survivalist’s neuroscience of near-death experiences
Searching for Cressie, the Crescent Lake Monster
Benjamin Radford recounts the story of his search for a monster that never was
An Evening With James Randi and Friends
Jon Cohen reports on the evening that will be remembered for all eternity as the greatest night there ever was (probably)
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
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
Volume 15 Number 3, Autumn 2002
Features
The Psychological Reality of Haunts and Poltergeists Part I: An Initial Model
In the first of a two-part article, Rense Lange and James Houran summarise their work concerning hauntings and poltergeists and argue that ghostly outbreaks can tell us more about the living than the dead.
In Search of Monsters?
Charles Paxton writes in defence of cryptozoology
Secrets of Area 51
David Hambling explores how secret balloon projects may have contributed to the flying saucer myth
