Features
What are we to make of Exceptional Experience? Part 3: Unseen Staring Detection and ESP in Pets
David Marks concludes his three-part critical review of parapsychology
Stupid Sceptic Tricks
Sceptics using unfair arguments? Surely not! David W Owens advises his fellow believers on how to avoid being bamboozled by their devious opponents …
Domesticating The Beast Of Bodmin
Col C J Harbottle (retired) sends his occasional report from the village of Shawley Knott
A Brief Introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Widely claimed to be indispensable for anyone who wishes to communicate better, NLP tempted Martin Parkinson to enter the jargon-jungle and find out more
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
Skeptical Odysseys: Personal Accounts by the World’s Leading Paranormal Inquirers by Paul Kurtz
Placebo: The Belief Effect by Dylan Evans
Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O by Christopher Wanjek
Darwin and the Barnacle by Rebecca Stott
EUREKA! The Birth of Science by Andrew Gregory
The Sense of Being Stared at, and other aspects of the extended mind by Rupert Sheldrake
Flat Earth? Round Earth? by Theresa Martin
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
In search of prayer power
Beware the wort
They’re all out to get you
Split decision
Skeptic at large: Invasion of the spirits
Wendy M Grossman
Philosopher’s Corner
Julian Baggini
Rhyme and Reason: Nothing acts faster…
Steven Donnelly
From Michael Heap
Chairman of the Association for Skeptical Enquiry
Letters from our readers
Good luck
Sloppy reporting
Cloning rights
Keen’s response to Youens