"the Skeptic" Journal

Volume 17 - 1997

The full content of the 1997 volume of the Skeptic is available on The Great Skeptic CD.

Volume 17 No 1

• Your very good health
• Around the traps
• Victorian attitudes
• Southerly aspect
• Darwin doings
• Canberra comment
• Tasmanian topics
• Notice Eugenie Scott visit
• Obituary Carl Sagan, 1934-96
• Plimer in court
• Immunisation: a rational perspective
• The anti-immunisation scare: The inconvenient facts
• Notice 1997 Convention
• The silicone witch hunt
• Alternative? What alternative?
• Notice 1997 Eureka Prize
• Blood money
• Hypnosis: the facts
• Review Harry does it again
• No links missing
• Superstitious belief and uncertainty
• Where are the alien visitors?
• Simulacrum
• So the camera never lies?
• Review Psychic spies?
• Review Secret conspiracy revealed
• Honour among thieves
• Review Sacred secret unshrouded
• Review Lost opportunities, Australian style
• Skeptic a “star”
• Review Leaving the cave
• Forum Vanishing species
• Forum Owning our history
• Technology Egomania: the Web Site Project
• Letters
• About our authors

Volume 17 No 2

• Editorial Matters of law
• Around the traps
• Notice Convention
• Victorian attitudes
• Southerly aspect
• Hunter gatherings
• The Plimer/Noah case
• In search of the real Noah
• The reality of recovered memories
• Anecdotal evidence
• Disclaimer disclaimed
• Passing the buck
• It may be natural - but does it work?
• Dubious chiropractic claims
• A fat lot of good
• Battling the alternatives
• Review The new intellectual elite
• Review Anatomy of a cruel cult
• Review Regarding reincarnation
• Review A global conspiracy revealed
• Inspired predictions
• Whimsy And now, the new New Age
• Bad writing contest winners
• Forum Whither the Skeptic?
• Forum Geological simulacra
• Forum Missing species
• Review A teaching tool
• Forum Owning history
• Notice 1997 Eureka Prizes
• Letters
• About our authors

Volume 17 No 3

• Cover story
• Convention report
• Bent Spoon winner
• Around the traps
• Victorian attitudes
• Darwinian selection
• Southern aspect
• Tas topics
• Hunter gatherings
• Exploratory opens
• Convention Radiation and health
• Convention Nuclear fears questioned
• Convention Economics defended
• Skeptic of the year
• Talking to the alien
• Biblical cosmography
• Make me rich quick - Please
• Salting the mine
• Oates’ theory of reverse speech
• Geological Society honours Ian Plimer
• Love , David
• Review A useful UFO book
• J’arkuse
• Review Oh ye of little faith
• Review A murderous cult exposed
• Review Potshots at potty science
• The Correx Files
• Forum Philosophy: a Skeptic’s tool
• Request The definitive Skeptics library
• Review Religion as a health hazard
• Forum On predictions
• Whimsy Revelation!!!
• Forum The great Year 2000 hoax
• Forum Extinct species
• Letters
• About our authors

Volume 17 No 4

• Editorial What a year
• Around the traps
• Eureka prize winner
• Hypnosis and posthypnotic suggestion
• Skeptics on the box
• James - gifted clairvoyant
• Dropping the pretence
• Gullible’s travels
• Flood geology
• Convention Getting the drift
• Investigation Conning the con-men
• Convention How can you tell from make believe?
• Convention Economics defended (Pt 2)
• The definitive Skeptics library
• Getting the energy
• Convention An oasis of privilege
• Investigation The true history of Hell House
• HRT and breast cancer
• Review A delightful dip for debunkers
• Have you been snatched?
• History of the Bent Spoon
• Branch  Victorian attitudes
• Branch  Darwinian selection
• Branch  Southerly aspect
• Branch  Capital capers
• Branch  Hunter gatherings
• Letters
• About our authors

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