THE SKEPTICS

 

Barry Williams - Editor of The Skeptic

 


Beliefs that survive sceptical scrutiny are more likely to be correct than those that don't.

 

For this reason Investigator Magazine encourages skeptics and true believers to present their best evidence and answer each other. Readers can then decide who's right or stay undecided.

 

It's easy to "blow your trumpet" if opposers are excluded and stopped from replying. But it's difficult when informed others  openly disagree.

 

A lot of people cling to unexamined beliefs that lead to loss or hurt. By the above process Investigator avoids adding to the problem and instead gives readers the information to make better decisions.


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(Updated: 2012 January)

AUSTRALIAN SKEPTICS HISTORY 63
NAMES OF FILMSTARS 134
ADELAIDE SKEPTICS 51 NUMEROLOGY 66
DARWIN SKEPTICS 52 OBLIQUITY of ECLIPTIC 33
ANNOTATED BIBLE 115 PENN & TELLER 125
ANTIQUITY of the EARTH  43; 53-57

ASTEROID WORRY SURVEY 63 PERSPECTIVES 93
ATHEIST FOUNDATION 60 PETER THE GREAT as SKEPTIC  6
BELIEFS SURVEY 50 & 53
BLIND MEN & ELEPHANT 24 PROVIDENTIALLY...108
BOMBS 126 PSYCHICS DEFINITION 86
CEMETERY FRIDAY 13th  53 PSYCHICS SHOULD BE SUED 36
BOOK REVIEW 11 RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES 47
CHESS 17 REPELLED 16
DARWIN'S REVOLUTION 130
GET RICH: A 5-STEP PROGRAM 117
DAWKINS' BOOK REVIEW 113 SCIENCE and its ANTITHESIS 123
DECENCY 34 SENSE & NONSENSE 33
CHIEF SEATTLE 30 SETI 29
CYNIC'S DICTIONARY 121 SHARPEN YOUR THINKING 28
DIALOGUE: REASON vs RELIGION 104 SHERLOCK HOLMES 54
DISAGREEMENTS 15 SILLINESS CYCLE 13
EL DORADO 59

EVOLUTION & DESIGN ARGUMENT 118 SKEPTICAL OF SKEPTICS 70
FACTS or FAIRY TALES 5 SKEPTICAL TEDDY BEAR 34
FISCHER, BOBBY 27 SKEPTICAL TOP DOG 64
FLIMFLAM 3 SKEPTICAL TOPICS LIST 69
FOLEY vs FOUR PSYCHICS 55 SKEPTICISM 30
FOXHOLE ATHEISTS 121 SNAKES 115
GEOLOGY AND MYTH 55 SPIRIT MOVES FRAUDULENTLY 1
GOD EXIST? BIBLE TRUE? 98 SPOTTER'S FEE 67
GREENLAND DISCHARGE 137

"GREATS" of HISTORY 116 THE TURK 104
GUIDE TO ARGUMENT 86 UNBELIEVABLE 118
HINDMARSH ISLAND BRIDGE 43

HISTORY of the SKEPTICS 40 UNIVERSITIES VIRAL INFECTION 109
HUMANIST ASSOCIATION 97 WINNING IS NOT NORMAL 17
HUME'S ARGUMENT ON MIRACLES 133

IGNORANCE 135
BRIEF REPORTS 20-29
IAN MILLER LETTER 30 BRIEF REPORTS 30-39
KEITH WARD BOOK 131
BRIEF REPORTS 40-49
IT'S IN THE IMAGINATION 69 BRIEF REPORTS 50-59
MEDIA WATCH 11 BRIEF REPORTS 60-69
MEDIA WATCH 13 BRIEF REPORTS 70-79
MIRACLE 123 BRIEF REPORTS 80-89
MONSTROPEDIA 137
BRIEF REPORTS 90-99
MOVIE CLICHES 75 BRIEF REPORTS 100-109
MUMMY FACTS 68 BRIEF REPORTS 110-119
MYTH BUSTERS 103 BRIEF REPORTS  120-129



ACUPUNCTURE 66 KINESIOLOGY 68
ACUPUNCTURE 134
MAGNETISM 80
ALTERNATIVE THERAPY 13 MENTALISM 83
AROMATHERAPY 48 NATUROPATHY 133
AYURVEDIC MEDICINE 83 NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING 88
AYURVEDIC MEDICINE 135

BACH FLOWER REMEDIES 127
POSTURE THEORY 63
BIOFEEDBACK 129
PSYCHIC DENTISTRY 93
BIORHYTHMS 131 PSYCHOANALYSIS 90
CHAKRAS 137

CHIROPRACTIC 132
QIGONG 98
COLONIC IRRIGATION 126 REBIRTHING 71
DEATH WHEN? 30 REFLEXOLOGY 81
EYESIGHT EXERCISES 22 REVERSE SPEECH 131
FACILITATED COMMMUNICATION 99 ROLFING 96
GRAPHOLOGY 91 SELF ESTEEM 115
HOMOEOPATHY 140
SEX CHANGE 88
HYPNOSIS 87 SKIN CARE CLAIMS 5
HYPNOSIS 119 SPERM & SCHIZOPHRENIA 78
IRIDOLOGY 79 SUPER FRUIT JUICES 142
ITCH 111 THERAPEUTIC TOUCH 92


Skeptical writers in Investigator include Harry Edwards, Dean Dowling, Laurie Eddie,
Mark Newbrook, Bob Potter, Kirk Straughen, John H Williams.


 

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