Articles and Essays Written by Steven Novella, MD
Here are some articles that I've both found online that Steve has written and their source. If you find any that are not on here, please send them to me at sgufan@sgufans.net.

Check out Steve's NeuroLogica Blog for articles. Posts are almost daily.
Title Source Date
What is Complimentary and Alternative Medicine? NEJS Jan 1, 1996
Alternative Engineering NEJS Oct 1, 1999
Bloodletting Works NEJS May 1, 2002
Fear Not: Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism NEJS June 1, 2005
Chiropractic: Flagship of the Alternative Medicine Fleet NEJS May 1, 1997
Chiropractic: Flagship of the Alternative Medicine Fleet - Part 2 NEJS Aug 1, 1997
Homeopathy: Overview NEJS Aug 1, 1996
Enter the Snake Oil Zone NEJS Jan 1, 1997
Herbal Mythology NEJS Oct 1, 1997
Selling Supplements NEJS May 1, 2003
Blue Green Algae - Nature's Perfect Scam NEJS Oct 1, 2001
Defending ADHD NEJS July 1, 2001
The Touch of Life NEJS Oct 1, 1998
Bee Venom Therapy NEJS Feb 1, 2002
Psychomotor Patterning NEJS Oct 1, 1996
The Design Interference NEJS Oct 1, 2002
Intelligent Design (co-authored with Bob) NEJS Nov 11, 2005
Creationists Run Afowl of the Evidence NEJS Dec 1, 1999
Creationists, Mechanical Engineers, and the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics NEJS Apr 1, 2001
Hunting the Ghost Hunters (co-authored with Perry) NEJS July 1, 1997
A Message of Love from the Seventh Dimension NEJS July 1, 2000
Secrets of the Psychics - Massimo Polidoro NEJS May 1, 2004
The Triumph of Evolution and the Failure of Creationism - Niles Eldridge NEJS Oct 1, 2000
90% of a Brain is a Terrible Thing to Waste NEJS Sept 30, 2006
Phrenology NEJS March 1, 2000
NESS Participates in the Randi Psychic Challenge NEJS May 1, 2004
Skepticism and Denial NEJS May 1, 2002
The Anatomy of Pseudoscience NEJS Dec 1, 2000
How to Argue NEJS May 8, 2006
The Proper Targets of Skepticism NEJS May 1, 2004
The Starchild Project NEJS Feb 17, 2006
UFO's: The Psychocultural Hypothesis NEJS Dec 1, 2001
UFO Conference in North Haven (co-authored with Perry) NEJS Oct 1, 1996

An Idea Whose Time Has Gone - Why Homeopathy is Bunk

Weird Science Sept 30, 2004

Evolve This- Is there an alternative to the theory of evolution?
(Or: Why people who think so are wrong, misguided and dangerous.)

Weird Science Oct 28, 2004

Alien Abductions and Coffee Enemas - or, the problem with being open minded

Weird Science Nov 25, 2004

Psychic Secrets Revealed - How to win friends and cheat people.

Weird Science Dec 23, 2004

Fad-Diet Follies - Why Atkins and its ilk are for suckers.

Weird Science Jan 27, 2005

Look, Up There! - Could UFOs be for real?

Weird Science Feb 17, 2005

Fear Itself - What are the real risks of vaccinating--or not vaccinating--your children?

Weird Science Mar 17, 2005

Natural Born Shillers - There’s nothing so great about being all natural.

Weird Science May 5, 2005

Levitating Frogs – Or why there’s no such thing as free energy.

Weird Science June 2, 2005

Cereal Killers – Crop Circle season is back.

Weird Science July 14, 2005

Weird Scientology

Weird Science Sept 22, 2005
Hot Air - Being not so skeptical of global warming. Weird Science Dec 8, 2005

Smoke and Mirrors - Why there is no such thing as spontaneous human combustion.

Weird Science Jan 8, 2006

Out of the Matrix - Come back to reality, most conspiracy theories are just plain wrong.

Weird Science Mar 23, 2006
Ultrasound Monitoring of Stroke Patients QuackWatch Aug 17, 2006
HIV Denial in the Internet Era (co-authored with Tara Smith PLoS Medicine Aug 21, 2007
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