"the Skeptic" Journal

Volume 20 - 2000

The full content of the 2000 volume of the Skeptic is available on The Great Skeptic CD.

Volume 20 No 1

• Editorial
• Around the Traps
• Letters
• Crossword
• How to become an astrologer
• The quest for the Golden Wand
• The Benalla dowsing challenge
• Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa
• Clairvoyant revisited
• Y2K – what went wrong?
• Who says we’re alone?
• As old as time
• Destined for success
• The lure of the masterstroke
• Evidence of remote viewing?
• Convention announcement
• Ponzis, pokies and punters
• True meaning of depression
• Welcome to the non-event
• Auras to order
• More musings of an innocent abroad
• Michael Shermer: Skeptics Society
• A worthwhile service
• Review: Lost civilisations
• Review: Reading humanity’s chart
• Review: Linguistic evolution
• Review: Alive in the Universe
• Review: Problems with posture
• Review: The charm of a great mind
• Review: A good fun read
• Forum: Radiation dangers

Volume 20 No 2

• Editorial
• Around the Traps
• Forum
• Letters
• Crossword
• News: Eureka Prize winners
• Psychic v psychological skills
• Overdue action on pseudo-medical gadgets
• An open letter to Prince Charles
• Editorial: On a personal note
• Flawed model for “flood geology”
• Convention notices
• Interview: James Randi
• Skepticism on ‘fringe’ and ‘mainstream’
• Free money
• Lead astray – some thoughts about roulette
• Who are these people?
• Trial by ordeal
• You can’t change your sex
• Faith cures: or does it?
• Revisionist accounts of Ancient History
• What’s in a name?
• Review: Some truth - at last
• NWO, so what’s the problem?
• The rise and rise of a web site
• Review: Light on a forgotten pioneer
• Forum: Sagan, SETI and pseudoscience
• Forum: The age of things
• Mistaken identity - again
• The significance of the year two thousand
• Forum: Depression - a contrary view
• Branch Report: Magic and medicine
• Branch Report: Acta Skeptica Victoriana
• Notice: Science, sex and The Simpsons
• Poesy: Celestial architects

Volume 20 No 3

• Editorial
• Around the Traps
• Forum
• Letters
• Crossword
• A test of radiometric dating
• Therapeutic touch
• Dense, precious and malleable
• A matter of perspective
• Why meddle with the masses?
• News: Creationist meeting
• Brindle berry: the weight loss herb?
• Wort’s in a name?
• Winners and losers
• Poesy: The tap
• The Phaistos Disk
• π in the sky
• Bureaucracy as a health hazard
• Nocturnal visitors
• ESP & the mind
• Notice: 2001 Skeptics Eureka Prize
• Notice: Skeptics World Convention
• Musings of an innocent abroad
• What the punters need
• Review: Grandfather of computing
• Review: Of prose and cons
• Review: History through a lens
• Review: Making the past mysterious
• News: Linguistics course
• Review: A great read
• Forum: Prescription drug danger
• An ethical dilemma
• Forum: Readers’ thoughts on SETI
• Forum: Reply to Richard Dawkins
• Forum: Comments on depression
• Forum: More about maps
• Forum: Cannibalism
• Eternal Life
• Report: Canowindra
• Report: Acta Skeptica Victoriana

Volume 20 No 4

• Editorial
• Around the Traps
• Forum
• Letters
• Crossword
• Convention report
• Convention summary
• How far can critical thinking be extended?
• Scepticism improves your health
• Nutrition: Who can you believe?
• Skeptics awards
• Hagiography, earned
• How can you tell from make believe?
• Towards the new millennium
• False prophets and other wankers
• Trust me, I’m a doctor
• Skeptical scrutiny scuttles scaremongers
• Fringe ideas in the media
• Poem: Christmas for all
• But seriously, folks
• Truth and the tabloids
• Review: A little learning is dangerous
• Wind beneath His wings
• Forum: Interstellar romanticism
• Forum: A matter of coconuts
• Forum: Mead-Freeman controversy
• A vacation experience
• More historical linguistics from Kaulins
• How hard is science?

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