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"the Skeptic" Journal

Volume 20 - 2000

 


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Volume 20 No 1

  • The CoverEditorial
  • 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

The CoverVolume 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

The CoverVolume 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

The CoverVolume 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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