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Electrodermal Screening Fakery Why Fallacies Aren't a Good Tool For Randi on Polygraphs | Science & Religion | Turkey Bans Evolution | P-Hacking in Psi Research | Australian Ghosts Vol. 41 No.5 | September/October 2017 the Magazine for Science and Reason Electrodermal Screening Fakery Why Fallacies Aren’t a Good Tool for Skeptics Bigfoot’s 7 Stages of Myth How Early Can We Teach Critical Thinking? Predatory Journals Published by the Center for Inquiry in association with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry a program of the Robyn E. Blumner, President and CEO Benjamin Radford, Research Fellow Bar ry Karr, Ex ec u tive Di rect or Richard Wiseman, Research Fellow Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow Massimo Polidoro, Research Fellow www.csicop.org Fellows James E. Al cock*, psy chol o gist, York Univ., Tor on to Kar manos Cancer Institute and chief of breast surgery section, Jay M. Pasachoff, Field Memorial Professor of Mar cia An gell, MD, former ed i tor-in-chief, Wayne State University School of Medicine. Astronomy and director of the Hopkins New Eng land Jour nal of Med i cine Wendy M. Grossman, writer; founder and first editor, Observatory, Williams College Kimball Atwood IV, MD, physician; author; Newton, MA The Skeptic magazine (UK) John Pau los, math e ma ti cian, Tem ple Univ. Steph en Bar rett, MD, psy chi a trist; au thor; con sum er ad vo cate, Sus an Haack, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Clifford A. Pickover, scientist, au thor, editor, IBM T.J. Watson Re- Al len town, PA Sci en ces, professor of phi los o phy and professor search Center. of Law, Univ. of Mi ami Willem Betz, MD, professor of medicine, Univ. of Brussels Massimo Pigliucci, professor of philosophy, Ir ving Bie der man, psy chol o gist, Univ. of South ern CA Harriet Hall*, MD, physician; investigator, Puyallup, WA David J. Helfand, professor of astronomy, City Univ. of New York–Lehman College Sus an Black more, vis it ing lec tur er, Univ. of the West of Stev en Pink er, cog ni tive sci en tist, Harvard Univ. Eng land, Bris tol Columbia Univ. Mas si mo Pol id oro, sci ence writer; au thor; ex ec u tive Sandra Blakeslee, science writer; author; New York Times science Terence M. Hines, prof. of psychology, Pace Univ., correspondent Pleasantville, NY di rect or of CI CAP, It a ly Mark Boslough, physicist, Sandia National Laboratories, Doug las R. Hof stad ter, pro fes sor of hu man James L. Powell, geochemist, author, professor; executive director, Na- Albuquerque, NM un der stand ing and cog ni tive sci ence, In di ana Univ. tional Physical Science Consortium; retired college and museum Hen ri Broch, physi cist, Univ. of Nice, France Ger ald Hol ton, Mal linc krodt Pro fes sor of Phys ics and pro fes sor of president, Buellton, CA his to ry of sci ence, Har vard Univ. Jan Har old Brun vand, folk lor ist; pro fes sor emer i tus Anthony R. Pratkanis, professor of psychology, Univ. of CA, Santa Ray Hy man*, psy chol o gist, Univ. of Or e gon of Eng lish, Univ. of Utah Cruz Stuart D. Jordan, NASA astrophysicist emeritus; Mar io Bunge, phi los o pher, McGill Univ., Montreal Donald R. Prothero, paleontologist/geologist, Natural History Museum science advisor to Center for Inquiry Office of Public Policy, of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA Sean B. Carroll, molecular geneticist; vice president for science edu- Washington, DC cation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Madison, WI Barry Karr, executive director, Committee for Benjamin Radford, investigator; research fellow, Committee for Thomas R. Casten, energy expert; founder, Recycled Energy Devel- Skeptical Inquiry, Amherst, NY Skeptical Inquiry opment, Westmont, IL Law rence M. Krauss, foundation professor, School James “The Amazing” Randi, magician; CSICOP founding mem- John R. Cole, an thro pol o gist; ed i tor, Na tion al of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Dept.; ber; founder, James Randi Educational Foundation Cen ter for Sci ence Ed u ca tion director, Origins Initiative, Arizona State Univ. Mil ton Ro sen berg, psy chol o gist, Univ. of Chic a go K.C. Cole, science writer; author; professor, Univ. of Southern Cali- Ed win C. Krupp, as tron o mer; di rect or, fornia’s Annenberg School of Journalism Am ar deo Sar ma*, chairman, GWUP, Germa ny Grif fith Ob ser va to ry, Los Angeles, CA Richard Saunders, president, Australian Skeptics; educator; John Cook, research assistant professor, Center for Climate Law rence Kusche, sci ence writer Change Communication, George Mason University, Virginia. investigator; podcaster; Sydney, Australia Fred er ick Crews, lit er ary and cul tur al crit ic; pro fes sor emer i tus of Le on Le der man, emer i tus di rect or, Fer mi lab; Joe Schwarcz, director, McGill Office for Science and Society No bel lau re ate in phys ics Eng lish, Univ. of CA, Berke ley Eu ge nie C. Scott*, phys i cal an thro pol o gist; chair, advisory Stephan Lewandowsky, psychologist, School of Experimental Psy- Rich ard Dawk ins, zo ol o gist, Ox ford Univ. chology and Cabot Institute, Univ. of Bristol, UK council , Na tion al Cen ter for Sci ence Ed u ca tion 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 Rob ert Sheaf fer, science writer Cor nel is de Ja ger, pro fes sor of as tro phys ics, Univ. of Utrecht, the Lin Zix in, former ed i tor, Sci ence and Tech nol o gy Dai ly (Chi na) Seth Shostak, senior astronomer, SETI Institute, Neth er lands Je re Lipps, Mu se um of Pa le on tol o gy, Univ. of CA, Berke ley Mountain View, CA Dan i el C. Den nett, Aus tin B. Fletch er Pro fes sor of Phi los o phy and Simon Singh, science writer; broadcaster; UK di rect or of Cen ter for Cog ni tive Stud ies, Tufts Uni v. Eliz a beth Loft us*, pro fes sor of psy chol o gy, Univ. of CA, Ir vine Dick Smith, entrepreneur, publisher, aviator, adventurer, Ann Druyan, writer and producer; CEO, Cosmos Studios, Ithaca, NY Daniel Loxton, author, editor of Junior Skeptic at Skeptic magazine (US), artist, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Terrey Hills, N.S.W., Australia Sanal Edamaruku, president, Indian Rationalist Keith E. Stanovich, cognitive psychologist; professor of human Association and Rationalist International Da vid Marks, psy chol o gist, City Univ., Lon don development and applied psychology, Univ . of Toronto Edzard Ernst, professor, Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Medi- Mar io Men dez-Acos ta, jour nal ist and sci ence writer, Mex i co City cal School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, Exeter, UK Kenneth R. Miller, professor of biology, Brown Univ. Karen Stollznow*, linguist; skeptical investigator; writer; podcaster Ken neth Fed er, pro fes sor of an thro pol o gy, Da vid Mor ri son, space sci en tist, NA SA Ames Re search Cen ter Jill Cor nell Tar ter, as tron o mer, SE TI In sti tute, Moun tain View, CA Cen tral Con nec ti cut State Univ. 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 Krista Federspiel, science journalist, expert on complementary and 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 alternative medicine, Vienna, Austria. Jan Willem Nienhuys, mathematician, Waalre, Neil de Gras se Ty son, as tro phys i cist and di rect or, Barbara Forrest, professor of philosophy, SE Louisiana Univ. The Netherlands Hay den Plan e tar i um, New York City Lee Nis bet, phi los o pher, Med aille Col lege An drew Fra knoi, as tron o mer, Foot hill Col lege, Los Al tos Hills, CA Indre Viskontas, cognitive neuroscientist, TV and podcast host, and Steven Novella*, MD, assistant professor Kend rick Fra zi er*, sci ence writer; ed i tor, Skep ti cal In quir er opera singer, San Francisco, CA Christopher C. French, professor, Department of neurology, Yale Univ. School of Medicine Stuart Vyse, psychologist, former Joanne Toor Cummings of Psychology, and head of the Anomalistic Psychology Re- Bill Nye, sci ence ed u ca tor and tel e vi sion host, Nye Labs search Unit, Goldsmiths College, Univ. of London James E. 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