1. Contents & Editor's Page 3 13th Year of IS 3 2. Sidelined Facts and Figures in the 2000-01 budget - S. Swaminathan 4 3. Kargil Controversy 4 Magazine stands by stories on security lapse in Kargil - TOI 4 PM knew of intrusion on May 4 - TOI 5 Protection to newspaper - TOI 5 Outlook editor gets death threat - TOI 5 4. For the Sake of Truth - Conny Larsson 6 5. The Y2K Challenge of the Non-skeptic - N. Om Dev 8 Comments - B. Premanand 9 Arguments to design - Neil Broom, Bill Cooke, Robert Mann, Robert Nola 9 Morton's 'claret cameo' 16 6. Springer Psychic : A Study in 'Clairvoyance' - Joe Nickell 22 7. Alternative Medicine - CIPLA 27 8. Mother Mary Comes to Me - Perry DeAngelis 29 9. The placebo Effect - Edvard A. Hemmingsen 34 10. Psychic Surgery comes to Denver - Bela Scheiber 36 11. The Art for Living! - P.V. Gopalakrishnan 39 12. New Age Religions - Bernard Katz 42 13. Psychic Test - The South Shore Skeptic 44 14 New Analyses Raise Doubts About Replicability of ESP Findings - Scott O. Lilienfeld 45
1. Contents & Editor's Page - Method of Science Exhibition 3 2. Claims by Satya Saibaba Where is the Truth? - Jinasiri Hewapathirana 6 Resist Temptation, Says Sai Baba - Deccan Chronicle 9 This Gautama Buddha Never Taught - Helene T. Arlington Upasika 10 Sai Baba's Partner in Fraud - Craxi dies in self-imposed exile - Vaiju Naravane 11 Sai Baba presents golden ring from air to CM - The Canara Times 13 A Rationalist's open letter to CM 13 Chavan's kin dead - TOI 14 A True Horror Story! - David Lane 14 Kidney Stealing by Sai Baba 16 3. Book Review: Spaceship of the Pleiades: A Hoax? - N.M. Hussain 20 4. Can Islam Survive the next Millennium? - Firozul Haque 22 5. A New Argument Against the Existence of God - Reza Saberi 27 6. "Science and Common Man" - T.K. Balan 29 Democracy of Science - TOI 29 Editorial - Holiscience - TOI 30 VHP makes the rite choice, begins 'yagnas' to exorcise ISI demon - Aloke Banerjee 31 Minor 'sacrificed' in Bihar to bring dead son to life - TOI 32 3000 Scholars to take part in 'Mahayagna' - Radha Sharma 32 A bitter harvest for Bihar's tribal women tortured by superstition - K.K. Singh 33 Forecasters stand Divided - Arun Sharma 34 Woman claims to be raped by faith healer - Bombay Times 35 Conman posing as faith healer held - TOI 35 7. Deorala? Satpura? Sati temples exist right here - Janaki Krishnamoorthy 36 Manna from heaven? - Srinivas lyer 38 In Reiki, There is No Past or Future - Ritu Khanna 39 Lord Venkateswara goes Online - TOI 40 8. Salary paid to the soul of a dead Army man just as if he is living - Punjab Kesari 41 9. Hurdles in the Education system - J.V.R. Reddy 42 10. Magnetic Attraction - Dave Shapiro 44 11. Letters to The Editor 45 The cancellation of Postal Registration - Rajender, R. Jayachandran 45 Suggestions to improve IS - Varinder Kumar 45 Indian Rope Trick - Frank Eliason 46 Optimistic about IS - Barun Bhattacharyya . 47
1. Contents & Editor's Page 3 Six Murders in Sai Baba's Bedroom 3 2. My Sai History - Jed Geyerhahn 4 3. DRAFT CURRICULUM: Need to shift the focus - J.V. Reddy 5 4. The last few days of the 20th century Nostalgic reflections - Dr. (Mrs.) Sunanda Shet 10 5. Head over heals - Freny Manecksha 14 6. Herbal drugs - cause for concern? - The Hindu 16 7. Psychic Experiences - K. Prakash 17 8. Conversions Still Haunt Gujarat - Kiran Nanavati 18 9. Four Wagons Moved by Itself? - Ved Priya & Dr. A.P. Mehta 20 10. SCRIPT/COMMENTARY FOR FILM ON THE METHOD OF SCIENCE - Mrs. Chandana Chakrabarti, Miss. Vaneeta Bhargava, Dr. P.M. Bhargava 21
1. Contents & Editor's Page 3 Sai Baba's Statement to CB-CID on Guru Poornima on 3.7.1993. 3 2. HC admits PIL on CM's residence - Deccan Herald 4 3. The weakness of scientists - K. Prakash 5 4. Book Review by N.M. Hussain - Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon - The Hundredth Monkey 5 5. Sathya Sai Baba: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - (Download from Internet) 8 6. The Making of a Myth - The Fatima Legend - Margaret Bhatty 13 7. 'Potharaju' dies during animal sacrifice - The Hindu 19 8. Tribal festival marred by killing of 'sorcerer' - The Hindu 20 9. 'Bastar tribal picked up' - The Hindu 21 10. Miracles or Deception? The Pathetic Case of Audrey Santo - Joe Nickell 21 11. Don't You Believe it! - Robert Novella 25 12. The Ten Outstanding Skeptics of the Twentieth Century - Skeptical Inquirer 28 Who are the outstanding skeptics of the twentieth century? 28 Skeptics Not to be Forgotten 35 13. A Short History of The Religious and Secular Intolerance in Medicine - Gerald Bergman 36 14. Curtains down - Prasanta Paul 44 15. Beware of Ayurvedic Clinics - TOI 45 16. 'Create Scientific temperament in children' - TOI 46 17. Letters to The Editor 46 18. Method of Science - M. Ramadasan, Mr. V.N. Pathak 46 10. Johnson Eyeroor replies to the question of N.J. Francis published in 15-4-2000 issue 47
1. Contents & Editor's Page 3 The Edamarukus and their "Truth" - Newspapers propagate Paranormal 3 2. Encroachers have 'divine' weapon against BMC squads - Kaajal Wallia 5 Evolution is Not Science submitted by the Creation Science Fellowship of New Mexico - NMSR Reports 6 Arguing against the resolution, on behalf of New Mexicans for Science and Reason - Dave Thomas 8 4. Political bigwigs attend liquor baraon's son's wedding - TOI 10 5. Sai Baba, Testicles, and Sleight of Hand: A Letter by an ex-devotee (Said) 11 Women in India - Problems of the Past and Challenges of The Future - Dr. (Mrs.) Sunandha Shet 17 7. From Darkness into Light - Margaret Bhatty 23 8. It's too Late to Say I'm Sorry - The American Rationalist 29 9. Newspapers propagate Paranormal - Er. E.M. Muralidharan 30 The man who can converse with the dead - K. Sasikumar 31 Ghostbusters to hunt for Catherine's ghost? - Indian Express 33 10. PILs for curbs on clinics claiming to cure Aids - Deccan Herald 33 11. VAASTU: Writ against misuse of Public Funds 34 12. This Superstitious World - T.K. Balan 39 Mixing business with pleasure, the Sang Parivar style - Bhaskar Roy and Smita Gupta 39 Section of Osho Sanyasins rejects plea to treat Pune as world headquarters - Abhay Vaidya 40 Osho's 'Inner Circle' appears headed for major split - Abhay Vaidya 41 Ex-students sue Hare Krishna leaders - TOI 42 ANS activists court arrest - TOI 43 Orissa tribals re-convert to Hinduism - Rajaram Satapathy 43 SC reverses Bombay HC order in gruesome sacrifice of kids - TOI 44 Feel the force: Crystals hold the secret to health - Hazel Courteney 45 How to protect yourself from negative energies 46
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