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Yjyjjgl^Ji^Jihildlitr-1 What's That I Smell? the Claims of Aroma .•• NOVA EXAMINES ALIEN ABDUCTIONS • THE WEIRD WORLD WEB • DEBUNKING THE MYSTICAL IN INDIA yjyjjgl^ji^JiHildlitr-1 What's That I Smell? The Claims of Aroma .•• Fun and Fallacies with Numbers I by Marilyn vos Savant le Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal THE COMMITTEE FOR THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CLAIMS OF THE PARANORMAL AT IHf CENIK FOR INQUKY (ADJACENT IO IME MATE 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 and Public Relations Director Lee Nisbet. Special Projects Director FELLOWS James E. Alcock.* psychologist, York Murray Gell-Mann. professor of physics, H. Narasimhaiah, physicist, president, Univ., Toronto Santa Fe Institute; Nobel Prize laureate Bangalore Science Forum, India Jerry Andrus, magician and inventor, Thomas Gilovich, psychologist, Cornell Dorothy Nelkin. sociologist. New York Univ. Albany, Oregon Univ. Joe Nickell.* senior research fellow, CSICOP Robert A. Baker, psychologist, Univ. of Henry Gordon, magician, columnist. Lee Nisbet.* philosopher, Medaille College Toronto Kentucky James E. Oberg, science writer Stephen Barrett. M.D., psychiatrist, Stephen Jay Gould, Museum of Loren Pankratz, psychologist, Oregon Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univ. author, consumer advocate, Allentown, Health Sciences Univ. Pa. C. E. M. Hansel, psychologist, Univ. of Wales John Paulos, mathematician, Temple Univ. Barry Beyerstein,* biopsychologist, Mark Plummer, lawyer, Australia Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver, B.C., AI Hibbs, scientist, Jet Propulsion Canada Laboratory W. V. Quine, philosopher. Harvard Univ. Irving Biederman, psychologist, Univ. of Douglas Hofstadter, professor of human Milton Rosenberg, psychologist, Univ. of Chicago Southern California understanding and cognitive science, Carl Sagan, astronomer. Cornell Univ. Susan Blackmore,* psychologist. Univ of Indiana Univ. the West of England, Bristol Wallace Sampson, M.D., clinical profes­ Gerald Holton, Mallinckrodt Professor of sor of medicine, Stanford Univ. Henri Broch. physicist, Univ. of Nice, Physics and Professor of History of France Evry Schatzman, President. French Science, Harvard Univ. Physics Association Jan Harold Brunvand, folklorist, profes­ Ray Hyman,* psychologist, Univ. of sor of English, Univ. of Utah Eugenie Scott, physical anthropologist, Oregon executive director, National Center for Vern Bullough. professor of history, Leon Jaroff, sciences editor emeritus, Science Education California State Univ. at Northridge 77me Glenn T. Seaborg. University Professor of Mario Bunge. philosopher, McGill Sergei Kapitza, editor, Russian edition, Chemistry, Univ. of California, Berkeley; University Scientific American Nobel Prize laureate John R. Cole, professor of anthropology, Philip J. Klass," aerospace writer, engi­ Thomas A. Sebeok. anthropologist, lin­ Univ. of Mass. at Amherst neer guist, Indiana Univ. F. H. C. Crick, biophysicist, Salk Inst, for Marvin Kohl, professor of philosophy, Robert Sheaffer, science writer Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif; Nobel SUNY at Fredonia Elie A. Shneour, biochemist; author, Prize laureate director, Biosystems Research Institute, Edwin C. Krupp, astronomer, director, La Jolla, California Richard Dawkins, zoologist, Oxford Univ. Griffith Observatory Dick Smith, film producer, publisher, L. Sprague de Camp, author, engineer Paul Kurtz.* chairman, CSICOP Terrey Hills, N.S.W., Australia Cornelis de Jager, professor of astro­ Lawrence Kusche, science writer physics, Univ. of Utrecht, the Robert Steiner, magician, author. El Cerrito, Netherlands Elizabeth Loftus, professor of psycholo­ Calif. gy, Univ. of Washington Bernard Dixon, science writer, London, Jill Cornell Tarter. SETI Institute U.K. Paul MacCready, scientist/engineer, Carol Tavris, psychologist and author, Los AeroVironment, Inc., Monrovia, Calif. Paul Edwards, philosopher. Editor, Angeles, Calif. Encyclopedia of Philosophy David Marks, psychologist, Middlesex Stephen Toulmin, professor of philoso­ Polytech, England Antony Flew, philosopher, Reading Univ., phy, University of Southern California U.K. Walter C. McCrone, microscopist, Steven Weinberg, professor of physics McCrone Research Institute and astronomy, University of Texas at Andrew Fraknoi, astronomer, Foothill Austin; Nobel Prize laureate College. 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'Gardnerfest' / Debunking the Mystical In India GERHARD EGGERT Good Question / Peter the First and Weeping Icons 5 NOTES OF A FRINGE-WATCHER 35 What's That I Smell? The Claims The Great Egg-Balancing Mystery of Aromatherapy MARTIN GARDNER 8 A small dose of aromatic oil may make for a pleasant experience, MEDIA WATCH but the claims of aromatherapy go way beyond that. NOVA's Alien Abduction Program Shows LYNN McCUTCHEON Questionable Techniques C EUGENE EMERY, JR 1 5 38 Fun and Fallacies with Numbers PSYCHIC VIBRATIONS // is so easy to misuse or misunderstand statistics. They can The Weird World Web enlighten, and they can mislead. ROBERT SHEAFFER 17 MARILYN VOS SAVANT INVESTIGATIVE FILES A Study of Fantasy Proneness in the Thirteen Cases of Alleged Encounters in John Mack's Abduction Hundredth Monkey JOE NICKELL 18 research in Japan, p. 51 WORKSHOP REPORT To Err is Human NANCY SHELTON 21 NEW BOOKS 46 ARTICLES OF NOTE 46 FORUM Exhausting the Mundanely Possible: The Inexplicable Pursuit of the Miraculous RALPH ESTLING 48 A 2,000-year-old electrical Ten 'Sightings' of Poor Journalism power source? p. 31 BRYAN FARHA 49 FOUOW-UP Senior Researcher Comments on the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon in Japan BOOK REVIEWS MARKUS POSSEL and RON AMUNDSON 51 Cull Archaeology and Creationism WTTSEND by Francis B. Harrold and Raymond A. Eve I Should Have Called Dionne First, I Guess JOSEPH A. EZZO .40 CHARLES MEMMINGER 53 Philosophical Interactions with Parapsychology LETTERS TO THE EDfTOR 56 Edited by Frank B Dilley GORDON STEIN .42 Satan's Silence by Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker ROBERT A BAKER .42 ON THE COVER: The X-Files Book of the Unexplained A photo of a San Francisco city by Jane Goldman street taken with the camera tilted to the angle of the incline. GORDON STEIN 45 (photoOver Langan) 1 EDITOR'S NOTE Skeptical Inquirer THI UACA2INI >0« SCIINCI AND REASON Inevitable Illusions, and CSICOP at Twenty IDfTO« Kendrick Frazier he marvelous human brain, even while working quite properly, can deceive EDITORIAL BOARD James E. Alcock us and lead us astray. Biophysicist Rainer Wolf, in "Believing What We Sec, T Barry Beyerstein Hear, and Touch: The Delights and Dangers of Sensor)' Illusions" (p. 23), pre­ Susan J. Blackmore sents a variety of fascinating sensory illusions. Such illusions intrigue and per­
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