THE SKEPTICS

Barry Williams — Former editor of the Skeptic

Beliefs that survive sceptical scrutiny are more likely to be correct than those that don't.

For this reason Investigator Magazine encourages skeptics and true believers to present their best evidence and answer each other. Readers can then decide who's right or stay undecided.

It's easy to "blow your trumpet" if opposers are excluded and stopped from replying. But it's difficult when informed critics openly disagree.

A lot of people cling to unexamined beliefs that lead to loss or hurt.  By the above process

Investigator avoids adding to the problem and instead gives readers the information to make
better decisions.

Updated: 2025 November

AUSTRALIAN SKEPTICS HISTORY 63	The MEDIA (Australia) 217
ADELAIDE SKEPTICS 51	MIND POWERS LECTURE 9
DARWIN SKEPTICS 52	MEDIA WATCH 11
ADAMS:THE SPIRIT MOVES FRAUDULENTLY 1	MEDIA WATCH 13
AEROLITES & MIRACULOUS SHOWERS 217	MIRACLE 123
ALIEN ENCOUNTER & HALLUCINATIONS 87	MISQUOTATIONS 80
AMAZONS 223	MONSTROPEDIA 137
AMERICA — A RACISTS  NATION? 198	MOVIE CLICHES 75
ANNECDOTAL EVIDENCE 13	MUMMY FACTS 68
ANNIVERSARIES 188	MYTH BUSTERS 103
ANNOTATED BIBLE 115	MYTHS, MISBELIEFS and UNTRUTHS 85
ANTIGRAVITY 146	NAMES of FILMSTARS 134
ANTIQUARIANS and SKEPTICS 195	NUMEROLOGY 66
ANTIQUITY of the EARTH  43; 53-57	NUMEROLOGY 74
ANTI-SEMITISM HITLER'S — WHY?	OBLIQUITY of the ECLIPTIC 33
APOSTROPHES: GIRLS, GIRL'S or GIRLS' ???	ODDITY CENTRAL 157
ARRIVAL [the movie] REVIEWED 198	PENN & TELLER 125
The ART OF PLEASING 224	PERPETUAL LAMPS 219
ASTEROID GRAND SLAM 44	PERSPECTIVES 93
Books about ASTEROID IMPACTS 203	PETER THE GREAT as a SKEPTIC 6
ASTEROID WORRY SURVEY 63	PHYSIOGNOMISTS 221
ATHEIST FOUNDATION 60	PROJECT DEBATER 186
Perception of AURAS 83	PROJECT GUTENBERG: 40,000 Free Books 146
BELIEFS SURVEY 50 & 53	PROPHETS FOR PROFIT Part 1 225
BLIND MEN and the ELEPHANT 24	PROPHETS FOR PROFIT Part 2 226
BLOOPERS 77	PROVIDENTIALLY...108
BLOOPERS 80	PSYCHIC SLEUTHS 221 (Croiset, G)
BOMBS 126	PSYCHICS DEFINITION 86
BOOK REVIEW: ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS 11	PSYCHICS SHOULD BE SUED 36
BOOK REVIEW: A DROP OF INK... 159	PSYCHICS SUED 175
BOOKS: GET 80 MILLION FREE BOOKS 195	RACE and INTELLIGENCE 155
BOOMERANGS 224
CEMETERY FRIDAY 13th  53	RADICAL LEFT and the HARM IT DOES 197
CHESS 17	RELIGION DELUSION 188
CHIEF SEATTLE 30	RELIGION'S LONG, SLOW DEATH 173
CHRISTIAN MORALITY SANCTIONS EVIL 68	RELIGIONS, ORIGINS of 154
CHRISTMAS: ALL ABOUT CHRISTMAS 147	RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES 47
Banning CHRISTMAS 215	REPELLED 16
CLIMATE CHANGE in 1984 and NOW 196-197	Get RICH: A 5-STEP PROGRAM 117
CLIMATE CHANGE EMBRACE the FACTS 216
CLIMATE CHANGE: IS WARMING REAL? 216
COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURALTHERAPY 118	RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT 185
CONSPIRACY THEORIES 198	RUSSO, Frank Pio 185
CROP CIRCLES 99
CYNIC'S DICTIONARY 121	SANTA SCHOOL and the JOB of SANTA 153
DANGERS IN BELIEF SYSTEMS 144	SCAMS 106
DARWIN'S REVOLUTION 130	SCAMS 158
DAWKINS' THE GOD DELUSION 113	SCIENCE ALWAYS DEFEATS RELIGION 178
DECENCY 34	SCIENCE and its ANTITHESIS 123
DIALOGUE: REASON vs RELIGION 104	SCIENCE FICTION: A BRIEF HISTORY 195
DINOSAUR MOVIES 32	SCIENCE FICTION and INDOCTRINATION 69
DISAGREEMENTS 15	Guide to SCIENTIFIC METHOD 100
DIVINE AGENCY and the UNIVERSE 192	SENSE & NONSENSE 33
DREAMS: HIDDEN MEANINGS 167	SETI 29
EL DORADO 59	SEX WITH GOD 150
ESP-GAMBLING EXPERIMENT 85	SEXUAL EQUALITY 188
EUGENICS — AMERICA & GERMANY 192	SHARPEN YOUR THINKING 28
EUTHANASIA 56	SHERLOCK HOLMES 54
EVOLUTION & DESIGN ARGUMENT 118	SILLINESS CYCLE 13
EVOLUTION IMPOSSIBLE 201	SKEPTICAL MAGAZINES 214
The EXPERTS SPEAK 2	SKEPTICAL OF SKEPTICS 70
EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY 161	SKEPTICAL TEDDY BEAR 34
FABLES of HISTORY 209	SKEPTICAL TOP DOG 64
FACTS or FAIRY TALES 5	SKEPTICAL TOPICS LIST 69
FACTS and BELIEFS 197	SKEPTICISM 30
	A SKEPTIC'S GUIDE... AFTERWORD 144
FACTS: GETTING THE FACTS 203	SKEPTICS $100,000 CHALLENGE 67
FALSE MEMORIES 36	SKEPTICS CONFERENCE in 1999 70
FIGI MERMAID 166	SLENDER MAN 219
FISCHER, BOBBY 27	SNAKES 115
FLIMFLAM 3	SUPERCENTENARIANS 143
A FOILED MYTH 11	SYBILS 223
FOLEY vs FOUR PSYCHICS 55	TARZAN MOVIES and MOVIE TARZANS 188
FOXHOLE ATHEISTS 121	TELEVISION: 1000 WAYS TO DIE 155
FREEDOM of SPEECH at UNIVERSITIES 176	TEST YOUR DISCERNMENT 97
FRUITFUL RESEARCH 171	TESTICLES: A Brief History 35
GEOLOGY and MYTH 55	The TURK 104
GIANT BOOK of USELESS INFORMATION 143	TYRE EXTINGUISHERS 214
GLOBAL ATHEIST CONFERENCE 145	ULTIMATE  QUESTION, THE 181
GOD EXISTS? BIBLE TRUE? 98	UNBELIEVABLE 118
GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS 185	UNIVERSITIES VIRAL INFECTION 109
GREENLAND DISCHARGE 137	URBAN MYTHS (Coca-Cola) 52
"GREATS" of HISTORY 116	VERBAL DELICACY 212
GUIDE TO ARGUMENT 86	VITALISM - MYSTICAL ENERGIES (Part I) 174
HAMBURG, BATTLE of 218	VITALISM - MYSTICAL ENERGIES (Part 2) 175
HEROIC FAILURES 215	WEBSITE: FRANK P RUSSO 172
HINDMARSH ISLAND BRIDGE 43	WEIRD and WACKY 223
HISTORY of the SKEPTICS 40
HITLER'S ESCAPE from BERLIN 145	WINNING IS NOT NORMAL 17
HITS and MYTHS 211	WORLD OF WONDERS 197
HOMO SAPIENS - QUO VADIS? 50	ZIONISM  and the HOLOCAUST 118
HUMANIST ASSOCIATION 97
HUME'S ARGUMENT ON MIRACLES 133	BRIEF REPORTS 20-29
HYPNOSIS / MESMERISM 107	BRIEF REPORTS 33-39
HYPNOSIS 206 What Hypnosis is Not	BRIEF REPORTS 40-49
HYPNOSIS Misuse of Hypnosis 207	BRIEF REPORTS 50-59
HYPNOSIS TERMINOLOGY GLOSSARY 208	BRIEF REPORTS 60-69
IGNORANCE 135	BRIEF REPORTS 70-79
IAN MILLER LETTER 30	BRIEF REPORTS 80-89
INQUISITION and JUSTICE 218	BRIEF REPORTS 90-99
It's in the IMAGINATION 69	BRIEF REPORTS 101-102
ISRAEL: The Land and its People 170	BRIEF REPORTS 103-109
JACK and JILL 220	BRIEF REPORTS  111-117
JEWISH INVENTIONS 223	BRIEF REPORTS 121
JEWISH PRODUCTS BOYCOTT 165	BRIEF REPORTS 122-125
The JEWS 211	BRIEF REPORTS 126-129
KEITH WARD BOOK 131	BRIEF REPORTS 130-134
JOKES ABOUT SKEPTICS 217	BRIEF REPORTS 135
LEECHES, SERPENTS and DYING SWAN 220	BRIEF REPORTS 136-139
LIFE IN 1954 112	BRIEF REPORTS 142-148
LINGUISTICS and RELIGION 184	BRIEF REPORTS 153-156
LOVE:  THE POWER OF LOVE 204	BRIEF REPORTS 168
MAGICAL INTEREST 174	BRIEF REPORTS 177
MICHAEL JACKSON 157	BRIEF REPORTS 180

HEALTH TOPICS

ACUPRESSURE 146	HYPNOSIS 87
ACUPUNCTURE 66	HYPNOSIS 119
ACUPUNCTURE 134	HYPNOTHERAPY 174
ACUPUNCTURE 147	IMMUNIZATION / VACCINATION 175
ACUPUNCTURE 189	IRIDOLOGY 79
	IRIDOLOGY 176
Albert ABRAMS 210	ITCH 111
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE 148	JIN SHIN DO 175
ALTERNATIVE CONSULTATIONS 209	LIFE EXTENSION THERAPY 176
ALTERNATIVE HEALING 145	LIVE CELL ANALYSIS 177
ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES GLOSSARY191	LIVE CELL THERAPY 177
ALTERNATIVE THERAPY 13	MACROBIOTICS 178
ANGELIC TECHNIQUE 148	MAGNETIC HEALTH 20
ANTHROPOSOPHICAL 149	MAGNETIC THERAPY 146
APHRODISIACS 60	MAGNETIC THERAPY 178
APPLIED KINESIOLOGY 68	MAGNETISM 80
APPLIED KINESIOLOGY 149	MASSAGE THERAPY 179
APPLIED KINESIOLOGY 155	MEDITATION 179
AROMATHERAPY 48	MENTALISM 83
AROMATHERAPY 150	MISCELLANEOUS THERAPIES 205
ART THERAPY 151	MOXABUSTION 180
ARTHRITIS CURES 151	NATUROPATHY 133
ASTROLOGICAL HEALING 152	NATUROPATHY 163
AURA CLEANSING 153	NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE 180
AURICULOTHERAPY 154	NEGATIVE ION THERAPY 181
AYURVEDIC MEDICINE 83	NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING 88
AYURVEDIC MEDICINE 135	ORGASMS of 23 Minutes 218
AYURVEDIC MEDICINE 154	OSTEOPATHY 182
	OZONE THERAPY 183
BACH FLOWER REMEDIES 127	PAST LIVES THERAPY 184
BACH FLOWER REMEDIES 155	Linus PAULING 184
BATES' VISION TRAINING 156	PLACEBO 144
BEE POLLEN / BEE VENOM THERAPY 157	PLACEBO 206
BIOFEEDBACK 129	POLARITY HEALING 185
BIORHYTHMS 131	POSTURE THEORY 63
CANCER CURES 159	PRANIC HEALING 186
CAYCE THERAPIES 160	PSYCHIC DENTISTRY 93
	PSYCHOANALYSIS 90
CHAKRA BALANCING 160	PSYCHIC SURGERY 187
CHAKRAS 137	QAKATAK 70
CHELATION THERAPY 161	QI GONG 98
CHIROPRACTIC 132	QI GONG 188
CHIROPRACTIC 162	QUACKERY 208
	RADIANCE TECHNIQUE 189
COLON THERAPY 162	RADIONICS 190
COLONIC IRRIGATION 126	RADIONICS / ORGONE THERAPY / etc.  219
COLOUR THERAPY 162	REBIRTHING 71
CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY 163	REBIRTHING 191
CRYSTAL THERAPY 163	REFLEXOLOGY 81
DEATH WHEN? 30	REFLEXOLOGY 192
DENTAL MERCURY FILLINGS 164	REIKI 193
DIANETICS 164	REVERSE SPEECH 131
DREAM THERAPY 165	ROLFING 96
EAR CANDLING 165	ROLFING 193
ERGOGENIC AIDS 166	SELF ESTEEM 115
ERHARD SEMINARS TRAINING 166	SEX CHANGE 88
EYESIGHT EXERCISES 22	SHIATSU 194
FACILITATED COMMUNICATION 99	SKIN CARE CLAIMS 5
FAITH HEALING 167	SOCIOPATHIC PERSONALITY 160
FASTING 168	SPERM & SCHIZOPHRENIA 78
FELDENKRAIS METHOD 168	SUBLIMINAL TAPES 195
GERSON THERAPY 169	SUPER FRUIT JUICES 142
GINSENG 169	THAI MASSAGE 195
GIZMOS, GADGETS, PILLS & POTIONS 207	THERAPEUTIC TOUCH 92
GRAPHOLOGY 91	THERAPEUTIC TOUCH 152
HAIR ANALYSIS 170	THERAPEUTIC TOUCH 196
HEALING ALL and EVERYTHING 170	TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE 197
HERBAL MEDICINE 171	TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 198
HOMEOPATHY TESTED 90	URINE THERAPY 199
HOMOEOPATHY 140	VINEGAR REMEDIES 200
HOMOEOPATHY 172	VITAMINS 97
HOMEOPATHY 187	VITAMINS 201
HOXSEY TREATMENT 172	WEIGHTLOSS DIETS 202
HYDROGEN PEROXIDE THERAPY 172	WHEATGRASS THERAPY 203
HYDROTHERAPY 173	WILLARD'S WATER 204
HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION THERAPY 173

Skeptical writers in Investigator include Harry Edwards, Dean Dowling, Laurie Eddie,
Mark Newbrook, Bob Potter, Kirk Straughen, John H. Williams.

LETTER PUBLISHED in #150 (2013 May)

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations on reaching the milestone of 150 editions of Investigator Magazine.

I enjoy reading Investigator and have been a subscriber for about 20 years. The magazine has given a fair go to many new and controversial ideas including some of mine.

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