Features
What are we to make of Exceptional Experience? Part 1: Remote Viewing
David Marks begins his three-part assessment of parapsychology with a critical view of remote viewing
Michael Bentine: Behind the Door
Matthew Coniam finds that Bentine was guilty of paranormal double-think
Psychoanalysis: Science or Pseudoscience?
Anna Järvinen considers the status of Freudian theory
Coming Soon to an Office Near You …
Sadly, Martin Parkinson is unable to respond to inspirational leadership
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
XTL : Extraterrestrial Life and How to Find it by Simon Goodwin and John Gribbin
Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson
Seeing Ghosts: Experiences of the Paranormal by Hilary Evans
Skeptical Philosophy for Everyone by Richard H. Popkin and Avrum Stroll
Think for Yourself: Questioning Pressure to Conform by Dr Sharon Presley
Demons of the Modern World by Malcolm McGrath
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
Remote viewers need chocolate, too
Jaws: the re-enactment
Attack on the clones
The Really Big Greeting
Men on the moon
Skeptic at large: Distinguishable from intelligence
Wendy M Grossman
Philosopher’s Corner
Julian Baggini
Rhyme and Reason: They should have seen it coming . . .
Steven Donnelly
From Michael Heap
Chairman of the Association for Skeptical Enquiry
Letters from our readers
Roswell
Keen’s response to French
