Skepticism

From the archives: The power of the publisher

From the archives in 1993, Wendy Grossman on the responsibility of publishers whose stable of content spans from the scientific to the preposterous.

From the archives: A healthy dose of sarsaparilla – snake oil for the nineties 

From the archives in 1993, Jerome Cosyn compares the flagrant snake oil of old with our enlightened times, and asks how much has really changed.

From the archives: A Test for Reincarnation 

From the archives in 1993, Val Dobson proposes a practical method for checking whether claims of past lives and reincarnation really stand up.

From the archives: Tunnel Vision – Is the ‘near-death experience’ just an illusion? 

From the archives in 1993, Brian W. Haines on the spate of claims that people on the verge of death have a Near Death Experience, and see a bright tunnel.

From the archives: Quackupuncture – A question of medical ethics 

From the archive in 1992, HB Gibson looks at the rise and fall - and rise again - of medical acupuncture in Western society.

From the archives: The controversial phenomenon of ball lightning 

From the archive in 1992, Steuart Campbell questions whether 'ball lightning' is a real phenomenon, or a series of misattributions.

From the archives: Cold Comfort for Cold Fusion 

From the archives in 1992, Malcolm Glasse reports on the bogus cold fusion claims of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann.

From the archives: Notions of belief – Memes, metaphors, and Richard Dawkins

From the archives in 1992, Wendy Grossman is unconvinced by Richard Dawkins' version of religion is a memetic virus.
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