Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 1 Number 4
Table of Contents
Articles
- A.R.E. You Sure?
- The Edgar Cayce Foundation Responds to a Skeptical Critique; The Skeptics Society Replies
- Can Religion Be Rational?
Reviews
- It’s Baaack: The Nature-Nurture Debate Again
- Exons, Introns and Talking Genes: The Science Behind the Human Genome Project; Bionomics; The Inevitability of Capitalism; Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science; The Road to Equality: Evolution and Social Reality
- Discovery & Creation
- The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination; The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know Himself; The Discoverers: An Illustrated History of Man’s Search to Know Himself
News
- Houdini; Millennium Watch; Newton; Skeptics International; Norwegian Skeptics; Occidental Creationism; Tapes for Sale; Haunted Hearing; Rational Sobriety; Scope of Skepticism; UFO Support Group; Psychics Fail; Skeptic’s Predictions; Skeptics TV; Tunguska; AIDS Dispute; Extinction Extinguished
Special Section:
The Price of Intolerance
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Today’s Heretic,
Tomorrow’s Saint - Spirits, Witches & Science
- Why the Rise of Science Encouraged Belief in the Supernatural in 17th-Century England
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The Ideological
Immune System - Resistance to New Ideas in Science
- The Day the Earth Moved
- The Psychology of Resistance to the Heretical-Science of Copernicus
Books in Brief
- Jonestown: A CIA Medical Experiment?; On the Wild SIde; Clouds of Secrecy: The Army’s Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas; Missing Pieces; How To Investigate Ghosts; UFOs, Psychics, and Other Mysteries; E.T.; Top Ten Science Frauds; Ten Great Unanswered Questions of Science; Galileo; Newton; Weird Wonders
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The Believing Brain
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In this, his magnum opus, Dr. Michael Shermer presents his comprehensive theory on how beliefs are born, formed, nourished, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished. Sam Harris calls The Believing Brain “a wonderfully lucid, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the boundary between justified and unjustified belief.” Leonard Mlodinow calls it “a tour de force integrating neuroscience and the social sciences.”
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Top 10 Myths About Evolution (and how we know it really happened)
This concise pamphlet provides answers to common objections to evolution, such as: If humans came from apes, why aren’t apes evolving into humans?; Only an intelligent designer could have made something as complex as an eye; The second law of thermo-dynamics proves that evolution is impossible; Evolution can’t account for morality; and more…
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Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alternative Medicine
Harriet Hall, MD (aka the SkepDoc), shares her wit and wisdom about alternative medicine including: chiropractic, the placebo effect, homeopathy, acupuncture, and the questionable benefits of organic food, detoxification, and ‘natural’ remedies.
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Learn to be a Psychic in 10
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Psychic readings and fortunetelling are an ancient art — a combination of acting and psychological manipulation. While some psychics are known to cheat and acquire information ahead of time, these ten tips focus on what is known as “cold reading” — reading someone “cold” without any prior knowledge about them.