"the Skeptic" Journal

Volume 19 - 1999

The full content of the 1999 volume of the Skeptic is available on The Great Skeptic CD.

Volume 19 No 1

• Editorial
• Around the Traps
• Letters
• Crossword
• World Congress news
• Around the traps Bunyip
• Arkeology: or, Look what I found Steve Roberts
• Newspaper reports on alt therapies Maureen FitzHenry
• Above & beyond (credibility?) Harry Edwards
• Magnetic pest control Colin Keay
• Lamentations of Eve Rosemary Sceats
• On astrology Richard Dawkins
• “Imaginography” W A R Richardson
• The urge to build Barry Williams
• Skeptical linguistics Mark Newbrook
• The Lead balloon Richard Lead
• Metaphysics William Grey
• Review: Hoaxing of Margaret Mead James Gerrand
• Review: One you must read Richard Gordon
• Review: Mirrors and smokescreens Ben Clarke
• Review: Hoodwink’d by faery fancy Richard Lead
• Report: Hands off Santa Jane Curtain
• Forum: Anomalies in science Gerald Huber
• Forum: The ecstasy of Anthony Garrett John Warren
• Forum: Postmodernism, a reply Linden Salter-Duke, Ken Newton
• Forum: Stolen children Tom Munro
• Cryptic crossword No 2 Tim Mendham
• Forum: Too much quackery Mike Chamberlain, Ross Brown, Paul Clark, Barry Williams
• Branch Report: Banana bendings Michael Vnuk
• Branch Report: Southerly aspect Allan Lang
• Branch Report: Hunter gatherings Michael Creech
• Branch Report: Tasmanian topics Fred Thornett
• Notice: NSW meetings
• Notice: Vic newsletter

Volume 19 No 2

• Editorial
• Around the Traps
• Forum
• Letters
• Crossword
• News: 1999 Eureka Prize winners
• Public perceptions of risk Melissa Finucane
• Meteorology Dick Whitaker & Steve Symonds
• Why people complain ... Guy Curtis
• Uncertainty of orthodox medicine Peter Arnold
• Afrocentrist linguistics Mark Newbrook
• The UFO connection Greg Keogh
• The ballad of Tocumwal Town Rosemary Sceats
• Political Correxness in Canberra Barry Williams
• Lead Balloon: Flat-line schemes Richard Lead
• Comedy, cons and comestibles Richard Lead
• The genesis of a web site John Stear
• The French connection Harry Edwards
• When is a prediction not a prediction? Bob Nixon
• Notice: Annual Convention
• Dialogue with alien intelligence Barry Williams
• Review: Sad collection of poor excuses Colin Groves
• Review: Why we do such silly things Colin Keay
• Ah, Mr Ham, you’ve done it again Sir Jim R Wallaby
• The evils of fundamentalism Anonymous
• Cryptic Crossword No 3 Tim Mendham
• Review: Postmod science demolished Ken Smith
• Another view James Gerrand
• Forum: A riposte to a reply to a response
• Forum: Post postmodernist relativism
• Forum: Observations on observations
• Darwin - Lamarck - Darwin Noel Bryning
• Environmentalism as a new religion
• Notice: Seeking subscriber web sites
• Branch Report: Banana bendings Michael Vnuk
• Branch Report: Tasmanian trivia Fred Thornett
• Branch Report: Victorian attitudes Steve Colebrook
• Branch Report: Western outlook John Happs
• Branch Report: Southerly aspect Allan Lang
• Branch Report: Canberra comment Neil Woodger
• Branch Notice: NSW function

Volume 19 No 3

• Editorial
• Around the Traps
• Forum
• Letters
• Crossword
• The Kennedy curse?
• The King of Terror
• Prophets of doom or profits of gloom?
• Gloom, doom and celestial affairs
• Arsenic and radiation
• Getting rich quick!
• There’s no fuel like an old fuel
• Am I being paranoid enough?
• Bob Carroll: Skeptical lexicographer
• Recovered memory practices
• The need for a Creator
• “Angel’s Hair” explained
• The Lead balloon
• Encyclopaedia Brit and creationism
• Review: Stove applies heat to Popper
• Review: Popper proponent pots back
• Shlain on language
• Notice: World Convention
• Forum: Postmodernism
• Your very own Skeptics horoscope
• Branch News: NSW meetings
• Barrington’s whimsical scepticism
• Review: The Liver-Cleansing Diet
• The GST applied to religious services
• Arizona, anodes and asininity
• The ghost tour of haunted Melbourne
• Branch News: Victorian attitudes
• Ghostbusting - Melbourne style
• Branch News: Banana bendings
• Branch News: Tasmanian trivia
• Branch News: ACT acts
• Branch News: Southerly aspect

Volume 19 No 4

• Editorial
• Around the Traps
• Forum
• Letters
• Crossword
• Conference round-up
• Recipients of Skeptics’ awards named
• Jacques Derrida at Monash
• Anti-immunisation meeting
• Breatharians found guilty
• Aliens on our doorstep?
• Y2K – Is it too late to panic?
• Visitors from space
• A Skeptic’s prayer
• The hominid succession
• Alchemy and the art of deception
• Through a Skeptical glass darkly
• Breatharianism – just a lot of hot air?
• Interview: Bob Steiner, magician
• I am not a giraffe, and I can prove it
• Those funster actuaries
• Forum: A moaning and gnashing of teeth
• Random musings of an innocent abroad
• Skeptic sees Madonna at Yankallilla
• Forum: Cannibalism lives
• Review: Character building
• Critique: Stop laughing, this is Sirius
• Obituary: Richard Annells Champion
• Another possibility
• Branch news: Banana bendings
• Branch news: Southerly aspect
• Branch news: NS Wails
• Branch news: ACT acts

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