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Vol. 20, No. 3, May/June 1996
- Buy this back issue
- What's That I Smell? The Claims of Aromatherapy
- Investigative Files / A Study of Fantasy Proneness in the Thirteen Cases of Alleged Encounters in John Mack's Abduction
- Workshop Report / To Err is Human
- Follow-up / Senior Researcher Comments on the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon in Japan
Articles
- Believing What We See, Hear, and Touch:
The Delights and Dangers of Sensory Illusions - Try these experiments yourself. Do your senses deceive you?
Rainer Wolf - The Enigmatic `Battery of Baghdad'
- This 2,000-year-old find is considered by some scientists to be
an electrical power source. Did it really work?
Gerhard Eggert - What's That I Smell? The Claims of Aromatherapy
- A small dose of aromatic oil may make for a pleasant
experience, but the claims of aromatherapy go way beyond that.
Lynn McCutcheon - Fun and Fallacies with Numbers
- It is so easy to misuse or misunderstand statistics. They can
enlighten, and they can mislead.
Marilyn vos Savant
Book Reviews
- Cult Archaeology and Creationism
by Francis B. Harrold and Raymond A. Eve - Joseph A. Ezzo
- Philosophical Interactions with Parapsychology
Edited by Frank B. Dilley - Gordon Stein
- Satan's Silence
by Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker - Robert A. Baker
- The X-Files Book of the Unexplained
by Jane Goldman - Gordon Stein
Columns
- Editor's note
- News and Comment
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- `Gardnerfest'
- Debunking the Mystical In India
- Good Question
- Peter the First and Weeping Icons
- Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
The Great Egg-Balancing Mystery - Martin Gardner
- Media Watch
NOVA's Alien Abduction Program Shows Questionable Techniques - C. Eugene Emery, JR.
- Psychic Vibrations
The Weird World Web - Robert Sheaffer
- Investigative Files
A Study of Fantasy Proneness in the Thirteen Cases of Alleged Encounters in John Mack's Abduction - Joe Nickell
- Workshop Report
To Err is Human - Nancy Shelton
- New Books
- Articles of Note
- Forum
Exhausting the Mundanely Possible: The Inexplicable Pursuit of the Miraculous - Articles of Note
- Ralph Estling
- Ten `Sightings' of Poor Journalism
- Bryan Farha
- Follow-up
Senior Researcher Comments on the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon in Japan - Markus Possel and Ron Amudson
- Wit's End
I Should Have Called Dionne First, I Guess - Charles Memminger
- Letters to the Editor
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