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Skeptic Magazine, Volume 4 Number 1
Table of Contents
Volume 4, number 1
Articles
- ’Twas Brillig…
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The “High-Tech” Dowsing Stick Meets the Irresistible Challenge
- A Walk Through Earth History: All Eight Thousand Years
- A Trip to the Institute for Creation Research Museum of Creation and Earth History
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The Question all
Skeptics are Asking - What is the Ant, Sir?
Forum
- Stimulating and Provocative; Critical and Self-Critical; Scant Flame of Reason; Where’s My Heroes?; Not Alone in Skepticism; Never This Excited; Beacon on the Horizon; Aura and Disorder; Journalistic Ethics and the Pioneer Fund; Sex Abuse; Velikovsky a Catastrophe; Velikovsky No Benefit; A Reminder to Us All; Schrödinger’s Cat and the Law; John Lennon Backwards; Dr. Tipler Meets Dr. Azimov?; Cannot Resist Comment; Bell Curve Stripped of Rhetoric; Jack Raso Responds
- Church of Scientology Responds
- Repressed Memory Reversal
- In-Group v. Universal Morality Forum Discussion
- Tending the Religious Garden; Before You Throw Out The Religious Bathwater; The Torah and the Yamamano — A Rabbi Replies to Hartung; Rotten Oranges in the Crate; Throw the Baby Out, Draw New Bathwater — Hartung Responds
Reviews
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Hidden History,
Hidden Agenda -
The Hidden History of the Human Race, by Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson
- Who Needs Satan?
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The Origin of Satan,
by Elaine Pagels
- A Curious Dialogue with God
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The Final Superstition: A Critical Evaluation of the Judeo-Christian Legacy, by Joseph L. Daleiden
News
- 1996 Skeptic Conference on Evolutionary Psychology and Humanistic Ethics; $500,000 Psychic Challenge; Skeptic magazine website “4-Star”/Top 5%; Orange County Treasurer Used Astrologer, Psychic in Billion Dollar Disaster; Skeptics Learn the Meaning of Halloween; Skeptics Magic Castle Party a Magical Experience; Members of Solar Temple Order Found Dead; Presidential Candidate Reveals Creationist Belief; More Blows Against Repressed Memory Claims; Jehovah’s Witnesses Abandon End of World Prediction; 6-Year-Old Boy Named Reincarnated Buddhist Monk; Darwinian Politics; Solar Eclipse Still Retains Magical Awe; Clinton Says Roswell Crash Not a Spaceship; Talkshow Experts Get 3% Time; Pentagon Spends $20 Million in Psychic Research; Sony Funds ESP Lab; Freud Museum Exhibit Protest; Global Village Idiot Award; Carlos Castaneda’s Comeback
Special Section:
Evolutionary Psychology
- The (Im)moral Animal
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A Quick and Dirty Guide to Evolutionary Psychology and the Nature of Human Nature
- Sociology as Alchemy
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The Problem of Deleting Darwin from the Study of Society
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Moving Beyond
Just-So Stories -
Evolutionary Psychology
as Protoscience
- How the Human Got its Spots
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A Critical Analysis of the Just-So Stories of Evolutionary Psychology
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The Imperial Animals
25 Years Later -
An Interview with Lionel Tiger
and Robin Fox
- An Urchin in a Haystack
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An interview with
Stephen Jay Gould - Gould’s Dangerous Idea
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Contingency, Necessity, and
the Nature of History
- How Dangerous is Darwin?
Books in Brief
- The Masters Revealed: Madame Blavatsky and the Myth of the Great White Lodge, by K. Paul Johnson; The Anomalist, edited and published by Patrick Huyghe and Dennis Stacy; Science Frontiers and Biological Anomalies, edited and compiled by William R. Corliss; Dinosaur in a Haystack, by Stephen Jay Gould; A History of Hypnotism, by Alan Gauld; Alternative Realities: The Paranormal, the Mystic and the Transcendent in Human Experience, by Leonard George; Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural, edited by Arthur Lehmann and James Myers; The Book Your Church Doesn’t Want You to Read, edited by Tim C. Leedom; Charles Darwin: Voyaging Volume 1 of a Bibliography, by Janet Browne
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