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Gun Violence | Climate Conversation | Missiles and Saucers | Searching for Yowie the Magazine for Science and Reason Vol. 40 No. 2 | March/April 2016 Published by the Center for Inquiry in association with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Ronald A. Lindsay, President Massimo Polidoro, Research Fellow Bar ry Karr, Ex ec u tive Di rect or Benjamin Radford, Research Fellow Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow Richard Wiseman, Research Fellow www.csicop.org Fellows James E. Al cock*, psy chol o gist, York Univ., Tor on to David H. Gorski, cancer surgeon and re searcher at Barbara Astronomy and director of the Hopkins Mar cia An gell, MD, former ed i tor-in-chief, Ann Kar manos Cancer Institute and chief of breast surgery Observatory, Williams College New Eng land Jour nal of Med i cine section, Wayne State University School of Medicine. John Pau los, math e ma ti cian, Tem ple Univ. Kimball Atwood IV, MD, physician; author; Newton, MA Wendy M. Grossman, writer; founder and first editor, The Skeptic magazine (UK) Clifford A. Pickover, scientist, au thor, editor, IBM T.J. Watson Steph en Bar rett, MD, psy chi a trist; au thor; con sum er ad vo cate, Re search Center. Al len town, PA Sus an Haack, Coop er Sen ior Schol ar in Arts and Massimo Pigliucci, professor of philosophy, Willem Betz, MD, professor of medicine, Univ. of Brussels Sci en ces, professor of phi los o phy and professor of Law, Univ. of Mi ami City Univ. of New York–Lehman College Ir ving Bie der man, psy chol o gist, Univ. of South ern CA Harriet Hall*, MD, physician; investigator, Puyallup, WA Stev en Pink er, cog ni tive sci en tist, Harvard Univ. Sus an Black more, vis it ing lec tur er, Univ. of the West of David J. Helfand, professor of astronomy, Eng land, Bris tol Mas si mo Pol id oro, sci ence writer; au thor; ex ec u tive Columbia Univ. di rect or of CI CAP, It a ly Sandra Blakeslee, science writer; author; New York Times Terence M. Hines, prof. of psychology, Pace Univ., science correspondent Pleasantville, NY. James L. Powell, geochemist, author, professor; executive direc- Mark Boslough, physicist, Sandia National Laboratories, Doug las R. Hof stad ter, pro fes sor of hu man tor, National Physical Science Consortium; retired college and Albuquerque, NM un der stand ing and cog ni tive sci ence, In di ana Univ. museum president, Buellton, CA Hen ri Broch, phys i cist, Univ. of Nice, France Ger ald Hol ton, Mal linc krodt Pro fes sor of Phys ics and pro fes sor Anthony R. Pratkanis, professor of psychology, Univ. of CA, Jan Har old Brun vand, folk lor ist; pro fes sor emer i tus of his to ry of sci ence, Har vard Univ. Santa Cruz of Eng lish, Univ. of Utah Ray Hy man*, psy chol o gist, Univ. of Or e gon Donald R. Prothero, paleontologist/geologist, Natural History Mar io Bunge, phi los o pher, McGill Univ., Montreal Stuart D. Jordan, NASA astrophysicist emeritus; Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA Robert T. Carroll, emeritus professor of philosophy, science advisor to Center for Inquiry Office of Public Benjamin Radford, investigator; research fellow, Committee Sacramento City College; writer Policy, Washington, DC for Skeptical Inquiry Sean B. Carroll, molecular geneticist; vice president for science Barry Karr, executive director, Committee for education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Madison, WI Skeptical Inquiry, Amherst, New York James “The Amazing” Randi, magician; CSICOP founding Thomas R. Casten, energy expert; founder and chairman, Law rence M. Krauss, foundation professor, School member; founder, James Randi Educational Foundation Recycled Energy Development, Westmont, IL of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Dept.; Mil ton Ro sen berg, psy chol o gist, Univ. of Chic a go John R. Cole, an thro pol o gist; ed i tor, Na tion al director, Origins Initiative, Arizona State Univ. Am ar deo Sar ma*, chairman, GWUP, Ger ma ny Cen ter for Sci ence Ed u ca tion Harry Kroto, professor of chemistry and K.C. Cole, science writer; author; professor, Univ. of Southern biochemistry, Florida State Univ.; Nobel laureate Richard Saunders, president, Australian Skeptics; educator; investigator; podcaster; Sydney, Australia California’s Annenberg School of Journalism Ed win C. Krupp, as tron o mer; di rect or, John Cook, climate communication research fellow for Grif fith Ob ser va to ry, Los Angeles, CA Joe Schwarcz, director, McGill Office for Science and Society the Global Change Institute at the Univ. of Queensland, Law rence Kusche, sci ence writer Eu ge nie C. Scott*, phys i cal an thro pol o gist; chair, advisory Australia. Le on Le der man, emer i tus di rect or, Fer mi lab; council , Na tion al Cen ter for Sci ence Ed u ca tion Fred er ick Crews, lit er ary and cul tur al crit ic; pro fes sor emer i tus No bel lau re ate in phys ics of Eng lish, Univ. of CA, Berke ley Rob ert Sheaf fer, sci ence writer Stephan Lewandowsky, psychologist, School of Experimental Seth Shostak, senior astronomer, SETI Institute, Rich ard Dawk ins, zo ol o gist, Ox ford Univ. Psychology and Cabot Institute, Univ. of Bristol, UK Mountain View, CA Ge of frey Dean, tech ni cal ed i tor, Perth, Aus tral ia Scott O. Lil i en feld*, psy chol o gist, Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA Simon Singh, science writer; broadcaster; UK Cor nel is de Ja ger, pro fes sor of as tro phys ics, Univ. of Utrecht, Lin Zix in, former ed i tor, Sci ence and Tech nol o gy Dai ly (Chi na) Dick Smith, entrepreneur, publisher, aviator, adventurer, the Neth er lands Je re Lipps, Mu se um of Pa le on tol o gy, Univ. of CA, Berke ley Terrey Hills, N.S.W., Australia Dan i el C. Den nett, Aus tin B. Fletch er Pro fes sor of Phi los o phy Eliz a beth Loft us*, pro fes sor of psy chol o gy, Univ. of CA, Ir vine and di rect or of Cen ter for Cog ni tive Stud ies, Tufts Uni v. Keith E. Stanovich, cognitive psychologist; professor of Daniel Loxton, author, editor of Junior Skeptic at Skeptic maga- Ann Druyan, writer and producer; CEO, Cosmos Studios, zine (US), artist, Vancouver, B.C., Canada human development and applied psychology, Uni v. of Ithaca, NY Da vid Marks, psy chol o gist, City Univ., Lon don Toronto Sanal Edamaruku, president, Indian Rationalist Mar io Men dez-Acos ta, jour nal ist and sci ence writer, Mex i co City Karen Stollznow*, linguist; skeptical investigator; writer; Association and Rationalist International podcaster Kenneth R. Miller, professor of biology, Brown Univ. Edzard Ernst, professor, Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Jill Cor nell Tar ter, as tron o mer, SE TI In sti tute, Moun tain View, CA Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, Da vid Mor ri son, space sci en tist, NA SA Ames Re search Cen ter Exeter, UK Rich ard A. Mul ler, pro fes sor of phys ics, Univ. of CA, Berke ley Car ol Tav ris, psy chol o gist and au thor, Los Ange les, CA Ken neth Fed er, pro fes sor of an thro pol o gy, Joe Nick ell, sen ior re search fel low, CSI Da vid E. Thom as*, phys i cist and math e ma ti cian, Socorro, NM Cen tral Con nec ti cut State Univ. Jan Willem Nienhuys, mathematician, Waalre, Neil de Gras se Ty son, as tro phys i cist and di rect or, Krista Federspiel, science journalist, expert on complementary The Netherlands Hay den Plan e tar i um, New York City Lee Nis bet, phi los o pher, Med aille Col lege and alternative medicine, Vienna, Austria. Indre Viskontas, cognitive neuroscientist, tv and podcast host, Steven Novella*, MD, assistant professor Barbara Forrest, professor of philosophy, SE Louisiana Univ. and opera singer, San Francisco, CA An drew Fra knoi, as tron o mer, Foot hill Col lege, Los Al tos Hills, CA of neurology, Yale Univ. School of Medicine Stuart Vyse, psychologist, former Joanne Toor Cummings Kend rick Fra zi er*, sci ence writer; ed i tor, S I Bill Nye, sci ence ed u ca tor and tel e vi sion host, Nye Labs James E. Oberg, sci ence writer ’50 professor of psychology, Connecticut College; author Christopher C. French, professor, Department of Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition, of Psychology, and head of the Anomalistic Psychology Irm gard Oe pen, pro fes sor of med i cine (re tired), Research Unit, Goldsmiths College, Univ. of London Mar burg, Ger ma ny Stonington, CT Julia Galef, host of the Rationally Speaking podcast; Paul Offit, professor of pediatrics, director of the Vaccine Educa- Ma ri lyn vos Sa vant, Pa rade mag a zine con trib ut ing ed i tor cofounder, Center for Applied Rationality, Berkeley, CA tion Center, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Stev en Wein berg, pro fes sor of phys ics and as tron o my, Univ. of Luigi Garlaschelli, chemist, Università di Pavia (Italy); Naomi Oreskes, geologist and professor, departments of the Tex as at Aus tin; No bel lau re ate History of Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, research fellow of CICAP, the Italian skeptics group E.O. Wil son, Univ. pro fes sor emer i tus, organismic and evolu- Maryanne Garry, professor, School of Psychology, Victoria Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA tionary biology, Har vard Univ.