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TESTING 'THE GIRL with X-RAY EYES' Tsunami Conspiracies and Hollow Moons TAVRIS ON SEX DIFFERENCES • RANDI ON JOHNNY CARSON • NICKELL ON TURIN SHROUD Skeptical Inquirer THE MAGAZINE FOR SCIENCE A N D R EASON Volume 29, No. 3 • May / June 200 » Testing **, 'The Girl with X-Ray Eyes' •\ •Ray Hyman. Andrew Skolnick Joe Nickell Psychic Swindlers ^H --.T.'.-V*• • Four Myths about Evolution A Librarian's Guide to Critical Thinking Published by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal THE COMMITTEE FOR THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION of Claims off the Paranormal AT THE CENTER FOR INQUIRY-TRANSNATIONAL (ADJACENT TO THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO| • AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION Paul Kurtz, Chairman; professor emeritus of philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo Barry Karr, Executive Director Joe Nicked, Senior Research Fellow Massimo Polidoro, Research Fellow Richard Wiseman. Research Fellow Lee Nisbet. Special Projects Director FELLOWS James E. Alcock.* psychologist. York Univ., Toronto Saul Green, Ph.D., biochemist, president of ZOL Loren Pankratz. psychologist. Oregon Health jerry Andrus, magician and inventor, Albany, Oregon Consultants, New York. NY Sciences Univ. Marcia Angell. M.D., former editor-in-chief. New Susan Haack. Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts Robert L Park, professor of physics, Univ. of Maryland England Journal of Medicine and Sciences, prof, of philosophy, University John Paulos, mathematician. Temple Univ. Robert A. Baker, psychologist, Univ. of Kentucky of Miami Steven Pinker, cognitive scientist. Harvard Stephen Barrett. M.D., psychiatrist, author. C. E. M. Hansel, psychologist, Univ. of Wales Massimo Polidoro, science writer, author, consumer advocate. Allentown, Pa. David J. Helfand. professor of astronomy, executive director CICAP Italy Willem Betz. professor of medicine, Univ. of Columbia Univ. 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