Carl Wyant

A sceptical mini-history of the crashed flying saucer saga Carl Wyant Sceptics will be amused to hear that the Great Roswell UFO Cover-up has just gained a new lease on life. Yes, as if the almost ... (1409 words)

All the Trouble in the World, by P.J. O'Rourke; Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd 1994; 340 pages; $20.00 paperback Everyone will enjoy this book. Well, everyone except paranormalists, ecological ... (471 words)

Pull up a chair and hearken to the tale of the Great Drought of '94 "Skeptical?" piped up the old timer. "Of course I'm flaming skeptical, ye addlepated mudfish! "Aye, but it wasn't always so. I was ... (825 words)

Our intrepid correspondent finds himself suffering from that most fashionable of psychological afflictions, Multiple Personality Disorder! The Jekyll/Hyde character has been used to express duality ... (610 words)

Are the End Times drawing nigh? Are fires and floods from heaven on the brink of seething down in wrathful purge, damning the damned and raising the faithful? Is God's finger poised on the panic ... (464 words)

It may interest skeptics to know that I have solved the world's energy problems. The concept is surprisingly simple... but then works of great brilliance often are. Our methods employ what we call ... (353 words)

"Mind my left ear." cautioned Mrs X, "there's a needle in it." "A needle?" I said, combing up a section of hair on the side of her head to check it out. "An acupuncture needle," she said. Sure ... (832 words)

Sometimes feeling better isn't a good sign at all... Carl Wyant recalls an occasion when faith healing showed itself better at handling symptoms than causes. The following story is true; the names ... (576 words)

Are Skeptics pussy-footing around by not attacking the major source of superstition and pseudoscience -- religion? With the reintroduction of serious Islam in Afghanistan, women are now required by ... (685 words)

It's a mindbending situation, but I guess you'd have to call me a skeptical believer. Like parapsychologist Susan Blackmore, personal experience inclined me towards the idea that supernatural events ... (443 words)

Juan Perez may not be one of the most well known Great Skeptics of History, but he was one of the bravest. Hilary Evans tells his story in "Visions, Apparitions, Alien Visitors". Towards the close of ... (316 words)

by Howard Blum; Simon & Schuster 1990 Reviewed by Carl Wyant My first thought when I spotted this book was, "just what we need — another UFO cover-up book." It turns out, however, to be a ... (323 words)