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Highlights from the Phactum archives
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Policy For Article Use: Except where otherwise noted all materials originating in Phactum may be reprinted by groups recognized in CSI's international network of skeptics organizations as published in Skeptical Inquirer. The author and Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking must be credited. All other publications must obtain permission from PhACT before using any item.
Policy For Article Use: Except where otherwise noted all materials originating in Phactum may be reprinted by groups recognized in CSI's international network of skeptics organizations as published in Skeptical Inquirer. The author and Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking must be credited. All other publications must obtain permission from PhACT before using any item.
Alternative Medicine and other health/medical issues
- JAMA Paper Embarrasses the Therapeutic Touch world
- Homeopathy to the Rescue!?
- When Hospitals Sponsor Alternative Therapies
- Testing a Therapeutic Touch Practitioner
- Introducing PANSA
- Probing Therapeutic Touch - The first phase of a continuing investigation
- Editorial: more on Therapeutic Touch
- Letters on alternative health
Free energy
- The Error Machine of Joe Newman
- The Lee Tour: Dennis Lee's then-upcoming 1999 tour
- The Crusade Continues: more on Dennis Lee
- Dennis Lee Is Still Free But His Energy Isn't
- Lee's "Free Energy" is Slammed on TV
- To a Would-Be Scientific Revolutionary
UFOs and Aliens
- PhACT Encounters the Aliens! -- Tom Napier's UFO debate on WHYY
- Extraordinary Sightings of the Hidden Mystery
Ghosts
Creationism vs. evolution
Philosophy of Skepticism
- Bill Wisdom's talk on Epistemology
- Skepticism and Science
- Never Give Up
- Meditations: an editorial
- Look Before You Leap
- Why Bother?
- How I Became a Skeptic
- Is extraordinary proof needed?
James Randi
Skepticism in the Media
- PhACT in the Media
- More PhACT in the Media
- Talk Show Switches PhACT for Fiction -- how AM Philadelphia ignored the skeptical position
- Lee's "Free Energy" is Slammed on TV
- Philadelphia Inquirer Wins First PhACT Award for Journalistic Integrity
PhACT
Letters to the Editor
Book Reviews
Miscellaneous
- Is Time-Travel Possible?
- Dowsing is as Easy as Pi
- Why Are There So Few Women Skeptics?
- Accepting Miracles in Your Life
- Raising the Hurdle? What Hurdle?
- An Interview With Joe Nickell
- Belief in the Paranormal from an Evolutionary Perspective
- Dilbert's Confusion
- PhACT Visits Mensa
- Mensans Told, "There is No Free Lunch"
- Walt Cuirle's Challenge -- find the physics flaw
- Mystery and Wonder
- Reflections from Spain -- Bill Wisdom's discussion of his presentation to the European Skeptics
- Editorial on David Blaine
- Does Judith Orloff Have Psychic Powers?
- The Textbook League
- PhACT Goes to School