Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 6 Number 1
Table of Contents
Articles
- ’Twas Brillig…
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Another Farce of New Age Technology Bites the Dust
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Dumbth News from
This is True -
The Evil Eye &
Its Influence on Medicine &
Social Customs
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Talking Twaddle
With the Dead -
The Tragedy of Death —
The Farce of James Van Praagh
- Talking to the Living Loved Ones of the Dearly Departed
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A Commentary on
a Bestselling Author
Forum
- Best Skeptic Ever; More Subscribers Coming; Skeptic a Relief in Religion-Mad America; Open Debate is Refreshing; The Princess & the Poet; Suppose Pythagoras Did Steal Pi?; Gravity Explained by Relativity; Put Skeptic in Libraries; News Not Fit to Print; Magnetic Healing; Jaroff Responds; Facts are Facts; Numbers From Nowhere; The Real Heroes of Mars Effect; Wise Use Pseudoskepticism; Overactive God Modules; The Message & the Messenger
- JFK
- JFK Judgment in Dallas; Posner’s Questionable Scholarship; JFK Truth or Falsehood?; JFK Conspiracy Deserves More; Zapruder Revisionism; Nick Gerlich Responds
- Crazy Making
- The DSM is not Making Us Crazy; More Making Crazy
- God/No God
- Universe’s Cause Indetermined; Skeptic ≠ Atheist; Rand as a Secular Rationalist; There Was No Jesus
- Mead/Freeman
- Person/Paradigm?; Mead & Castaneda; Orwellian Determinism
- Militias
- Militias and Skeptics; Militias & the Draft; Why Militias — Part II
Reviews
- Founder of the Skeptical, Scientific Twentieth Century
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Huxley: From Devil’s Disciple to Evolution’s High Priest,
by Adrian Desmond
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Bigger Than Life
Even in Death -
Houdini! The Career of Erich Weiss, by Ken Silverman and Notes to Houdini!, by Ken Silverman
- A Slave To Facts
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440–1870,
by Hugh Thomas
News
- Kids Rule
- 9-Year Old Emily Rosa Debunks Therapeutic Touch In JAMA; Junior Skeptic for Real; Lisa Simpson Continues Reading Junior Skeptic Magazine
- You Must Disclose House Hauntings!; The End of the World … Again; Millennial Stew; NASA Reveals “Face” on Mars Another Mountain; Banachek Entertainer of Year; K.C. Cole Lecture
- Cosmologists
- Stephen Hawking at Caltech; Stephen Hawking v. Frank Tipler
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Holocaust
Revisionism Update - David Cole Recants/David Irving Says Churchill Knew About Pearl Harbor
- More Doubts on Recovered Memory Therapy; Bible Banned Book; Church-State Wall Develops Crack; Sagan Suit Dropped; Internet Science Updates; Nonbelievers in Majority?; Plato on Prozac; Revising Native American History; Realtors Beware: Men and Directions; The Cryptozoologist; Aliens, Ghosts… & Earthquakes?; Ghost to Whip Skeptic Wankers Arses; 1997 Darwin Awards; UPN Alien Abduction Film Hoax; The Dangers of Acupuncture; Psychic Friends Network Goes Bankrupt — They Didn’t See it Coming; Freeman Clarification
Special Section:
Science & Society
- Objectivity in Journalism Should We Be Skeptical?
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A Skeptic’s Guide to
The Drug Policy Debate - The GRE as Fringe Science
- The Politics and Economics of the Graduate Record Examination
- The Free Exercise of Pseudoscience
- A Quirk in the Supreme Court’s Free Exercise of Religion Jurisprudence Could Allow Purveyors of Pseudoscience to Evade Criminal Fraud Prosecutions
- The Ionian Instauration
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An Interview with E.O. Wilson on His Latest Controversial Book: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
- Unity, Diversity & Evolution
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A Review of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, by E.O. Wilson
Books in Brief
- Instinct and Revelation
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Reflections on the Origins of Numinous Perception,
by Alondra Y. Oubré
- The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation, by John L. Casti; The Ultimate Einstein, by Donald Goldsmith with Robert Libbon; The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty, by K.C. Cole; Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century, by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles; The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup, by Philip Klass; Manufacturing Victims: What the Psychology Industry is doing to People, by Tana Dineen; Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion, by Edward Larson; Evolution in Mind: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology, by Henry Plotkin; The Quickening: Today’s Trends, Tomorrow’s World, by Art Bell; Chemical Sensitivity: The Truth About Environmental Illness, by Stephen Barrett, M.D.; Defending the Faith: A Beginner’s Guide to Cults and New Religions, by Richard Abanes; Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War, by Hugh Gusterson; Heavenly Knowledge: An Astrophysicist Seeks Wisdom in the Stars, by Fiorella Terenzi; Richard Feynman: A Life in Science, by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin; The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist, by Richard P. Feynman
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