“Let’s Ask Skinner” ran in Crimewave USA, edited by Mark Maynard and Linette Lao, from 1996 to 2003. It usually included both accurate and inaccurate misinformation, plugs for my other projects, toilet humor, and mockery of organized skeptics and the Grateful Dead — the last not from any animus on my part, but simply to provoke peevish mail from certain readers who held those topics sacred. The questions were sent in by readers, provided by the editors, or swiped from other publications. Here’s a sample.
