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COLUMNS Skeptical Inquirer EDITOR'S NOTE 4 March/April 2002 • VOL 26, NO. 2 NEWS AND COMMENT 'No Effect' Prayer Study from Mayo Clinic Ignored by Media / UFO Conspiracist William Cooper Killed in Gunfight with Police / New SPECIAL REPORTS Developments in the Thought Field Therapy Saga / Experiments Demonstrate Social Transmission of Paranormal Beliefs / Sugar in 16 Bioterrorism and the NCCAM Meteorites Find Lends Support to Space Origin of Life's Building The Selling of 'Complementary and Blocks / The Best and Worst of 2001 / Recent Deaths 5 Alternative Medicine' KIMBALL C. ATWOOD IV, M.D. CONFERENCE REPORT Science and Religion: The Conference 20 'Mothman' Solved! BENJAMIN RADFORD 14 JOE NICKELL INVESTIGATIVE FILES Undercover Among the Spirits: ARTICLES Investigating Camp Chesterfield JOE NICKELL 22 29 Bigfoot at 50 Evaluating a Half-Century PSYCHIC VIBRATIONS of Bigfoot Evidence Give Me Disclosure, or Give Me Death! 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