ProFacto Newsletter Archive
Fall 2000 (Vol.6 No.2)
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Mad Cows, Mad Corn and Mad Communities -
Why experts and lay people perceive risk differently
By Jeanine DeNoma
Public Perceptions of Risk
By Melissa L. Finucane, Ph.D.
Therapeutic Touch - Finally, a Skeptical Book on Therapeutic Touch
Book Review by David Bloomberg
Virues, Hoaxes and Other Gremlins from the Internet
By Raan Young
Puzzle Zone
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Pro Factoids
Winter 2000 (Vol.6 No.1)
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Local Skeptics Groups - Surveying the Skeptic Scene
By Jeanine DeNoma
The O4R Library Project
By Richard Leinaweaver
Local Skeptics Can Make a Difference
By Ben Bradford
The Face On Mars
CSICOP Press Release
Year-end Report on O4R Activities
By Jeanine DeNoma
Finding Darwin's God
Book Review by Dr. William Thwaites
Puzzle Zone
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Pro Factoids
Fall 2000 (Vol.5 No.4)
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The Creation/Evolution Continuum
By Dr. Eugenie Scott
Why We Held Back - The Consequences for Neglecting to Teach Evolution
By Dr. William Thwaites
An Evening with Dennis Lee
By Dave Chapman
Testing a "300% Efficient" Motor - O4SR engineers take a critical look at Dennis Lee's motor
By Andrew Greenberg
Ashland Gets a Reality Check
By Ted Clay
How Old Is the Earth?
By Dr. Martin G. Miller
Puzzle Zone
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Pro Factoids
Summer 2000 (Vol.5 No.3)
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Did You Mean What You Meant?
O4R Presentation by By Bill Hoth, Ed.D.
Statements That Give Clues
By Phil Pennington
What Happened in Kansas?
By Jeanine DeNoma
Free Energy and Y2K Conspiracies
By Jeanine DeNoma
About This Issue
By Jeanine DeNoma
Ipso Facto
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Pro Factoids
Spring 2000 (Vol.5 No.2)
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In Search of the Golden Meme - Is the meme a useful concept or an overapplied analogy?
By Mark Cowan
Why Are We Pushing Witchcraft On Girls?
By Matt Nisbet
Ipso Facto
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Pro Factoids
Winter 1999 (Vol.5 No.1)
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Benign Hoaxes - Wake-up Calls to the Gullible
By Jeanine DeNoma
Graffiti of the Gods
By Ted Clay
Logical Fallacies - Understanding valid arguments
By Dave Clarke
Reporting Science - Scientific literacy and the medias role in science education.
By Jeanine DeNoma
Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam generation was robbed of its heros and history
Book Review By Dr. Loren Pankratz
Puzzle Zone
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Ipso Facto
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Pro Factoids
Fall 1998 (Vol.4 No.4)
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Unsupported Medical Claims - Errors and misinterpretation in alternative medicine research
O4R Presentation by Dr. Wallace Sampson, summary by Jeanine DeNoma
Scams, Schemes & Swindles - Con-artists and Their Victims
By Jeanine DeNoma
Cons and the Nature of Deception
By Jeanine DeNoma
NIH Acupuncture Consensus Conference
National Council Against Health Fraud (External link)
Puzzle Zone
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Pro Factoids
Summer 1998 (Vol.4 No.3)
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The Alternative Medicine Movement - An essay from the frontlines of the war on quackery
By Dr. Wallace Sampson
Advice for Skeptics - A television reporter tells how skeptics can influence programming
By Clyde Freeman Herreid
Underground Pi - Digging Out from Under Pseudoscience
By Mark Cowan
The Platinum Plover Egg
By Phil Pennington
Resources for Evaluating Alternative Medical Claims
By ProFacto Staff
An Interview with Ray Hyman - A leading skeptic discusses skepticism and the skeptical movement
By Jeanine DeNoma
Pro Factoids
Spring 1998 (Vol.4 No.2)
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Kooks and Kook Traditions
By Donna Kossy
The Oregon UFO Wave That Wasn't - The importance of press skepticism in the 1896-97 Sightings
By Robert Bartholomew
Education's 'Missing Link' - Those Creationists - Why Do They Fear Evolution and Will That Ever Change?
O4R Presentation by Dr. William Thwaites, summary by Jeanine DeNoma
Stranger Than Fiction
Book Review By Loren Pankratz
Pro Factoids
Winter 1998 (Vol.4 No.1)
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Critical and Criminal Thinking - How brain damage can affect brain function
O4R Presentation by Dr. Joel Alexander, summary by Laura Graser
Pulling Our Foot - The Sasquatch Museum
By Ted Clay
The Challenge of Creationist Thinking - How religious doctrine threatens science education
By Dr. William Thwaites
National Center for Science Education - The scientific resource for creation/evolution information
By Jeanine DeNoma
Pro Factoids
Fall 1997 (Vol.3 No.4)
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Debunking UFOs: Tilting at Windmills
By Bill Capron
Oregonian Battles Pseudoscience
By Jeanine DeNoma
Probing the Brain - From Pickled Brains to Present-day Research
By Jeanine DeNoma
Persistence and Genius
Book Review By Jeanine DeNoma
Pro Factoids
Summer 1997 (Vol.3 No.3)
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Neurology of the Weird - Brain mechanisms and anomalous experiences
O4R Presentation by Dr. Barry Beyerstein, summary by Jeanine DeNoma
Adequate Evidence for What?
(Based on talk by Larry Laudan at OSU 5/1/97)
By Jeanine DeNoma
The Millennium is Coming - When? - It's a matter of deciding when to celebrate
By Ralph S. Blois
Pro Factoids
Spring 1997 (Vol.3 No.2)
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Judge Jones Recent Ruling in the Silicon Breast Implant Case
By Laura Graser
Junk Science in the Courtroom - How and why "make-believe" science gets used
By William Masters, Attorney-at-Law
Reason Wins One
O4R Presentation by Attorney J. Michael Dwyer, summary by Bryce Buchanan
Book Reviews By Jey Wann
Skepticism and Murder Mysteries
Book Reviews By Jey Wann
Not Elementary - and Not Holmes
By Jey Wann
Pro Factoids
Winter 1997 (Vol.3 No.1)
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Suing the Devil: A Case of Abused Trust
By Jeanine DeNoma
Oregon's Ballot Measure 39 - Insurance would be required to cover alternative health care
By Bryce Buchanan
Pro Factoids
Fall 1996 (Vol.2 No.4)
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Skeptics' Confidence Dowsed
By James Randi
A Distinctive Family of Errors - Part III: Reaching Out
By Phil Pennington
What's it Hurt?
By Jeanine DeNoma
Science and the Media - Prominent skeptics examine the roots of misinformation
By Jeanine DeNoma
Pro Factoids
Summer 1996 (Vol.2 No.3)
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The Politics of Health Fraud - Medicine and modern magic
O4R Presentation by Dr. Joe Schnabel, summary by Bryce Buchanan
Homeopathy Primer
By Bryce Buchanan
Reasoning, Writing and Rare Resources - The Independent Thinkers Toolbox
By Jeanine DeNoma
Reasoning, Writing and Rare Resources - Lessons from Teaching
By Jeanine DeNoma
Boston and Wentachee - Connected by Credulity and Ignorance
By Bill Capron
Pro Factoids
Spring 1996 (Vol.2 No.2)
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The Rise of Alternative Medicine: Anti-Science and Propaganda
By Wallace Sampson, M.D.
A Distinctive Family of Errors: Part II: At the Edge of Human Comprehension
By Phil Pennington
The James Randi Challenge - Pseudoscience Bites the Dust Big Time
By Raan Young
If You Wish It Were True, I Have a Product For You
By Bryce Buchanan
1995: A Credulous Year in Review
By Jeanine DeNoma
Pro Factoids
Winter 1996 (Vol2. No.1)
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What We Believe ... And Why - Validating Our World View
By Jeanine DeNoma
A Distinctive Family of Errors - Part I: Dont Get Burned
By Phil Pennington
Memory, Cognition, Hallucinations - Cataloguing error-brain ideas
By Jeanine DeNoma
Polygraph: Take It Or Leave It
By Anonymous
Popular Limitations on Rationality
By Dr. Bruce Stewart
Jerry Andrus on Perceiving Reality - A Master of Illusions
By Jeanine DeNoma
Pro Factoids
Fall 1995 (Vol1. No.4)
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Albany's Awesome Andrus - Illusionist Jerry Andrus Is O4SR's best-known member
By Jeanine DeNoma
An Up-to-Date Debate? - Answering Back
By Jeanine DeNoma
Imnahas UFO Illuminates Town Hall
By Phil Pennington
John Mack and ET vs. Harvard Medical School
By Bryce Buchanan
An Up-to-Date Debate? - A Textbook Case
By Jeanine DeNoma
Pro Factoids
Summer 1995 (Vol1. No.3)
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Eye-Witness Accounts - Adequate Evidence? Maybe Not...
By Jeanine DeNoma
Photographic Fakery - Adequate Evidence? Maybe Not...
By Avery Wilkins
Spirits Advance to Computers
By Jeanine DeNoma
A Night on the Town Hall
By Jeff Jones
The Trials of Evolution - Evolution and "creation science" in the courtroom
By Jeanine Denoma
Unorthodox Medicine in Oregon - Several bills have been introduced supporting alternative care
By Jeanine DeNoma
Pro Factoids
Spring 1995 (Vol1. No.2)
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Impostors, Pretenders and Deceivers - What gives liars away?
By Loren Pankratz
President's Corner - More Alien Abductions?
By Bryce Buchanan
Psychics and Scientists - Mediums, Messages, and their Meanings
By Jeanine DeNoma
Society for Amateur Scientists
Press Release
Spiritualist Memories - Mediums, Messages, and their Meanings
By Jeanine DeNoma
Pro Factoids
Winter 1995 (Vol1. No.1)
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The Psychology of Belief - Seattle, Sagan, and Psychology
By Jeanine DeNoma
From Incubi to ET - Seattle, Sagan and Psychology
By Bryce Buchanan
The President's Corner - An Irrational World
By Bryce Buchanan
Proper Criticism - The Importance of Responsible and Effective Communication
By Ray Hyman
Who are Oregonians for Rationality?
By Jeanine DeNoma
Pro Factoids
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