The Skeptics Society & Skeptic magazine

ALSO INSIDE SKEPTIC

contributors

Emily Rosa, Erika Antisdale, Cathie Walker, Sheri Kinney, Bob Friedhoffer, and Pat Linse

introduction

In this issue of Junior Skeptic, science award winning nine-year-old Emily Rosa tells about how she got the idea to test Therapeutic Touch for a Science Fair project. With only $10 worth of materials and a good knowledge of the scientific method she discovered the truth behind an unusual medical treatment and became the youngest person ever to get research results published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Bill Nye is right; science can be fun!

in this issue

Emily Rosa and Friend

• What is therapeutic touch?
• Are gamblers lucky? 
• Eight-year-old Erika Antisdale reports from Las Vegas.
• What is the probality that certain numbers will come up when you roll a pair of dice?
• Science websites that make the grade.
• Easy tests you can do yourself.