_Skeptic_ Volume 3, Number 1 (1994): PSEUDOHISTORY Table of Contents SKEPTIC A Quarterly P

_Skeptic_ Volume 3, Number 1 (1994): PSEUDOHISTORY

Table of Contents
SKEPTIC

A Quarterly Publication of the Skeptics Society, Devoted to the
Investigation of Extraordinary Claims and Revolutionary Ideas and the
Promotion of Science and Critical Thinking

Features
8 Skeptical News
   False Memories Sell; Think Your Cancer Away; UFO Lighter Than Air;
A Dead Sweaty Elvis?; Mystery Fumes Called Mass Psychogenic Illness;
Remember the Alamo; The Astrology of Accidents; Nat Can Con; NSTA
Needs New Director; Aliens With Runny Noses; A 35mm Jesus; Color Me
Blue (And Violet, Indigo, Green,Yellow, Orange, & Red); Freethinker's
Directory; Christopher Columbus, P.I.

(11)So Long...
  Nobel 2; Speaking of Vitamins; Sperry's Split Brains; Popper's
Principle

(12)More News 48 Dead in Cult Suicide; Happy 80th Martin Gardner;
  "Psychic" Geller Loses Libel Suit Against Prometheus

13 Skeptics' Forum: Letters

Boy Scout Atheists Clarification; Agnosticism Unites; The A Word;
  Atheists Not Obnoxious; Agnosticism is Dogmatic; The Strong and the
  Weak-Shermer Responds; Asimov's Method; Right Within Limits;
  Mind-Boggling Trends; Smoot's Flat Earth; The Handwriting on the Wall;
  ICD 273.3; Skeptical of Madonna; Urban Myth; 7-Up Anyone?

(17) Extreme Afrocentrism and Holocaust Revisionism:
   Aborigines on the Moon?; Revisionist Jewbaiting; Hey Vito, Put it in
   Writing; Evil is Evil; Judeophobia and the Zionist Plot; With a Name
   Like Shermer . .  .; Skeptic Part of Jewish Cabal; The Holocaust
   Lobby; I Have Not Now or Ever Been . . . ; Don't Print This; One
   Picture is Worth . . .; Not Sarcastic; The Wheat and the Chaff; Jewish
   Propaganda Quarterly; Some Skeptic You Are; A System Clone;

(22) Shermer Responds:
  Candelabras, Jews, & an African-Greek-German-American

25 'Twas Brillig...Commentary
   The Liquefying "Blood" of St. Januarius. Also: Prime-Time Quackery.
   By James Randi

28 Life After False Memory 
   Syndrome-an Update
   By Laura E. Pasley

30 Electronic Skepticism
  Head-on Collisions on the Information Highway.
  By Fredric Rice

33 The Mattoon 
  Phantom Gasser
  Was the Famous Mass Hysteria 
  Really a Mass Hoax? 
  By Willy Smith

84 Why Should Skeptics
  Understand Religion?
  By Clayton J. Drees

70 Skeptical Perspectives
   A Heretic-Scientist
   Among the Spiritualists
   Alfred Russel Wallace and 19th-Century Spiritualism-Part I.
   By Michael Shermer

108 Is Raw Meat Conscious?
   By Bernard Leikind

106 Authors and Contributors

Special Section
Pseudomedicine

40 Therapeutic Touch
   Skeptics in Hand to Hand 
   Combat Over the Latest 
   New Age Health Fad.
   By Linda A. Rosa

50 Homeopathy
   A Position Statment by the
   National Council Against 
   Health Fraud.
   Edited by William Jarvis

58 Chasing Shadows on a Pitch-Black Wall 
   Spiritual Belief Systems Compete as Alternatives to Scientific Health
   Care.
   By Jack Raso

In Brief and In Review: 

91 BOOKS in Brief
   God's Own Scientists: Creationists 
   in a Secular World. 1994. By Christopher Toumey

   A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century
   England. 1994. By Steven Shapin

   The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. By
   Jagdish Mehra. 

   History of Women in Science for Young People. By Vivian Epstein 

   A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
   1993. By Karen Armstrong

BOOKS In Review
94 The Audio Classics Series:
   Religion, Scriptures and Spirituality. Edited by Walter Harrelson and
   Mike Hassell. Reviewed by Clayton J. Drees

96 Miracles, Conspiracies, & Skinheads:
   Pseudoscience and Pseudohistory at its Best: Weeping Icons, Relics,
   Stigmata, and Healing Cures. By Joe Nickell. Also: Skinhead Street
   Gangs. By Loren Christensen.
   Reviewed by Peter Huston

   98 Leftist Science & Skeptical Rhetoric
   Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science,
   by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt.
   Reviewed by Jeffrey Shallit

101 The Thinker on the Edge of Forever
   Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry. By
   David Alexander. Reviewed by Michael Shermer 

About the Cover-"The Therapeutic Touch." Art by Pat Linse.
Concept by Linda A. Rosa.