Highlights from the Phactum archives

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

• Skeptics 21, Ghosts 0: the New Hope ghost tour

Creationism vs. evolution

• Encounters - Where skeptics report their skirmishes with the other side

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

• Arranging a James Randi Lecture
• Keeping Tabs on the Amazing One - the Randi Connection

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

• How Can People Help PhACT?
• PhACT and Religion -- a statement by the Council
• PhACT Experts

Letters to the Editor

• Alien Abductions
• Alternative Treatments
• Epistemology and Reality
• New Age Magazine

Book Reviews

• Book Review: Bizarre Beliefs

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