Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 5 Number 3
Table of Contents
Articles
- Millennium Special
- What is the Millennium?
- ’Twas Brillig…
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Fairies, Frauds, & Fuss: Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Case of the Fake Fairy Photos
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Dumbth News from
This is True - The X-Files Meets Disneyland
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UFOs are now as mainstream as apple pie: Aliens have replaced spooks in the carnival funhouse
- Conspiracies to Di For
- Why Do Militias Exist?
- With a Response from Militia Expert Richard Abanes
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The Solution is
Not in the Solution - Homeopathy and The Office of Alternative Medicine
- Houdini v. the Blond Witch of Lime Street
- An Historical Lesson in Skepticism
Special Section:
Anthropology
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How Humans
Explain Human Origins - The Bones, (Stones, and Dirty Stories) of Contention
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In Love With Lucy
and All Her Relatives -
An interview with Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson
- Paradigms in Collision
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Margaret Mead’s Mistake and
What it Has Done to Anthropology
- Indians & Archaeologists
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Conflicting Views of
Myth and Science - God & the Ghost Dance
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Farrakhan, Wovoka, and Jesus:
The Eternal Return of the Messiah Myth
Reviews
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Turning Our Hearts
Toward Home -
James Dobson’s War on America, by Gil Alexander-Moegerle
- A Book & its Cover
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Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media, by Elaine Showalter
News
- Psychics Fail to Predict Princess Di’s Death
- Nostradamus and Di
- Now They Tell Us!
- Belief in Afterlife Increases—Atheists Less Than 1%; Canadians Believe in Miracles; Potato Miracle; Pat Robertson and UFOs; Prime Time Religion; Tape Reveals Real Mission of the Christian Coalition; Religion Book Sales Up 112%; Prime Time Religion; Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded; How To Become a Saint; 25th Anniversary of Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion; Bible Not Only Reason Students Reject Evolution; Prayer an Issue in Death; Parapsychology at UNLV; Cult Conference Controversy; The Skeptic’s Dictionary; Survey Reveals Intolerance Among Christian activists; Vanity Fair and Fairies; Banned by Rand; Mother Teresa Nun Bun Lives; IQ Pioneer and Psi Researcher Hans Eysenck Dies; Stimulation Simulator Sags; Moon Money; Candidate for Natural Selection Award; Hollywood Bigfoot Hoax; Dihydrogen Monoxide Ban—A Lesson in Critical Thinking; All the News Not Fit to Print.
Books in Brief
- Who Really “Discovered” America?
- American Discovery: Our Multicultural Heritage, by Gunnar Thompson, and, The Friar’s Map of Ancient America. 1360 AD., by Gunnar Thompson
- Multiple Identities and False Memories: A Sociocognitive Perspective, by Nicholas P. Spanos; Carl Sagan’s Universe, edited by Yervant Terzian and Elizabeth Bilson; The Metaphysics of Star Trek, by Richard Hanley; Deception and Self-Deception: Investigating Psychics, by Richard Wiseman; Moral Judgment: Does the Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System?, by James Q. Wilson; The Alien IQ Test, by Clifford Pickover; Smiling Through Tears, by Pamela Freyd and Eleanor Goldstein
- It’s a Darwinian World
- Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory, by Niles Eldredge; This is Biology: The Science of the Living World, by Ernst Mayr; Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence, by George B. Dyson; Charles Darwin and the Evolution Revolution, by Rebecca Stefoff; Huxley: From Devil’s Disciple to Evolution’s High Priest, by Adrian Desmond; Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women, by Deborah Blum; Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds, by Phillip E. Johnson
Forum
- Skeptical Roses; Priorities; ACLU Needs Skepticism; Firewalking Burns Feet!; Scientology Reply to Steve Allen; PC Culture Wars; Global Warming & Population ; Fallacies in Environmentalism; Carbon Cycle Key to Environmental Changes; Franklin No Rosicrucian; Callahan Responds; Gardner Unfair to Korzybski; Martin Gardner Responds; Whatever Happened to Atheism? — It’s Alive and Well Thank You; Platonic Memes; Blackmore Responds; Gravity No Myth; Einstein’s God; McComas Responds; Let’s Hear From Some Theists; Thank You Tim Callahan; Apologies for Apologetics; Extraordinarily Disturbing; Pro-Corporate Propaganda; Is the Big Bang Necessary?
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Top 10 Myths About Evolution (and how we know it really happened)
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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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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.