Showing posts with label Skeptical Inquirer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skeptical Inquirer. Show all posts
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Attack of the Bloodsucking Plants

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The September-October issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER contains an article about the "Vegetable Man of West Virginia." This alleged cry...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Do Spoilers Really Spoil?

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The latest issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER includes an article exploring whether advance exposure to spoilers actually makes the experience of r...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Pros and Cons of AI for Authors

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Is AI good or bad for authors? AI (artificial intelligence) is such a broad term, and the technology included under its umbrella -- from lit...
Thursday, March 03, 2022

Ranking Dangers

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The March-April issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER contains an article titled "The World's Most Deadly Animal," by Harriet Hall. The ...
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Thursday, January 27, 2022

Creative Fakelore for Fun and Enlightenment

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The January-February 2022 issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER includes an article by statistical ecologist Charles G. M. Paxton, narrating his exper...
Thursday, November 05, 2020

The Tyranny of Now

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The November/December issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER contains an article by psychologist Stuart Vyse titled "COVID-19 and the Tyranny of N...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Self-Aware Cells?

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The September-October issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER reviewed a book called THE FIRST MINDS: CATERPILLARS, 'KARYOTES, AND CONSCIOUSNESS, by...
Thursday, November 01, 2018

Reflections on Alien Visitors

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The November-December issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER contains three articles about UFOs and extraterrestrials. "UFO Identification Proc...
Thursday, November 02, 2017

The Plausibility of Modern Legends

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I subscribe to the magazine SKEPTICAL INQUIRER, which I highly recommend to fans and writers of SF and fantasy. Its coverage of myths, legen...
Thursday, March 02, 2017

Skeptical Thinking

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Two articles in the March-April issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER deal with critical, scientific-oriented mental habits, which are usefully releva...