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Skeptical Inquirer

Organisation 10 stories, 1848 to 2010 also written CSICOP, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

Skeptical Inquirer is where the doubters made their case. Several of the archive's best-known encounters were taken apart in its pages. Psychiatrist Ernest H. Taves argued there that Betty Andreasson had relived a dream or fantasy under hypnosis. Robert A. Baker described Whitley Strieber's Communion encounter as a textbook hypnopompic hallucination. In 2012 Joe Nickell suggested that Charles Hickson imagined the Pascagoula abduction in a waking dream state. Paul Kurtz, Benjamin Radford and Robert Sheaffer also wrote in its pages, covering Voronezh, the Berkshire incident and the 2010 Chinese airport closures.