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From the archives: Spirit guides and after-images – seeing is not necessarily believing

Colin Sutherland -
From the archives of May 1993, Colin Sutherland noticeably fails to see a spirit guide at a hypnosis demonstration - but does see an after-image.
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From the archives: A metallurgical miracle? All that glisters is not gold

Dave Mitchell, Paul Munro -
From the archives of March 1993, Paul Munro and Dave Mitchell scientifically investigate an alleged miracle in which silver turned to gold.
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From the archives: Carlos Castaneda and the Don Juan caper

Robert McGrath -
From the archives of March 1993, Robert McGrath reports on the the debunking of Carlos Castaneda's shaman, "Don Juan", as fiction
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From the archives: The Cyril Burt affair, and historic accusations of fraud

Ray Ward -
From the archives of March 1993, Ray Ward re-evaluates the claims of fraud levelled against distinguished psychologist Sir Cyril Burt.
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From the archives: Skepticism, 1895 Style – A medium tries to convert the skeptics

Tom Ruffles -
From the archives, the 19th century medium Dr Louis Schlesinger meets his match in the form of skeptic Harry Warren.
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From the archives: The theft of the Tarot Pack, and the history of Tarot

Daf Tregear -
From the archives in 1993, Daf Tregear looks at the history of Tarot, and how it came to be co-opted fully by believers in the occult.
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From the archives: The power of the publisher

Wendy M. Grossman -
From the archives in 1993, Wendy Grossman on the responsibility of publishers whose stable of content spans from the scientific to the preposterous.
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From the archives: A healthy dose of sarsaparilla – snake oil for the nineties 

Jerome Cosyn -
From the archives in 1993, Jerome Cosyn compares the flagrant snake oil of old with our enlightened times, and asks how much has really changed.
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