Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 6 Number 2
Table of Contents
Articles
- ’Twas Brillig…
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A Deadly
Intellectual Atmosphere
- Coach Potatoes
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The Latest Self-Help Diet
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The Skeptics Society
1997 Dumbth Award -
For the Dumbest Thing Anyone Did in 1997
- Skeptic Lite
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Genesis Revisited:
A Scientific Creation Story - The “Emily Event”
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Emily Rosa and the Therapeutic Touch Wars
Special Section:
Taking God Seriously
- Deepak’s Dangerous Dogmas
- Karl Popper on God
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The Lost Interview
- A Case for God
- Taking Creationism Seriously
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Are Skeptics Answering Creationists Effectively?
- A Case Against God
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Science and the Falsifiability Question in Theology
- Do You Believe in God?
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The Difference in Your Answer & the Difference it Makes
- The Truth is Out There & Ray Hyman Wants to Find it
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An Interview with a Co-Founder of Modern Skepticism
Forum
- Thanks Again, Carl; The Prostitution Debate; JFK … and David Cole?; Kudos to Miele; Alien Hoax in New Zealand; Breeding Spoons and Dying Candelsticks; If There Was No One Around to Hear the Big Bang Did it Make a Noise?; Superstition in Our Skies; Amazed, Amused, and Angered; When The Worm Turns; The Evidence for God; The Anti-Meme Meme; Another Omega; More JFK Mythology Exposed
- E.O. Wilson
- Wilson’s Red Flag; Sex and Procreation; Wilson’s Free Will
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Van Praagh &
Grief Counseling -
Grief and Van Praagh;
Growing With Grief -
Drug Policy, Journalism
& Ideologies - Drug Policy No Goode; Special Pleading v. Skepticism; Goode Responds; Objectivity Still Worth Having; The Arbitrary Belief Module; Environmental Ideologies
News
- The Skeptics Society Hosts a Sold-Out Caltech Conference
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God, Religion & Myths: Exploring the Human Need to Believe
- Skepticism in Prime-Time
- 5-Fold Increase in Skeptic’s Worldwide Distribution; Supreme Court Slams “Junk Science”; Evolution Happened — Deal With It, Says NAS; John Casti Speaks at Caltech on Artificial Intelligence; USA Today Survey Shows Beliefs in Weird Things on the Rise; Alternative Medicine Used by 40% of Americans; Therapeutic Touch for Horses?; Faith Healing Kills, Study Shows; Catholics Skeptical of Weeping Virgin Mary … Sort of; Hemingway Haunts Havana; Abduction Watch; Virgin Mary Sited in Cake; Shermer Performs Psychic Reading for ABC
Reviews
- Designing the Designer
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God: The Evidence, by Patrick Glynn
- Blind Faith
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Mind Games: Exposing Today’s Psychics, Frauds & False Spiritual Phenomenon, by André Kole and Jerry MacGregor
Books in Brief
- Journey Through the Ice Age
- Finding Enlightenment: Ramtha’s School of Ancient Wisdom
- Eye to Eye
- by Frans Lanting Chistine Eckstrom (Ed.)
- In Brief
- Star Trek on the Brain: Alien Minds, Human Minds, by Robert Sekuler and Randolph Blake; End-Time Visions: The Road to Armageddon? by Richard Abanes; Thinking Logically: A Study of Common Fallacies, by Brant Abrahamson and Fred Smith; Against the Multicultural Agenda: A Critical Thinking Alternative, by Yehudi O. Webster; Randomness, by Deborah J. Bennett; Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy, by Robert Almeder; Encounters With the Paranormal: Science, Knowledge, and Belief, by Kendrick Frazier (Ed.); Carlos Castaneda, Academic Opportunism and the Psychedelic Sixties, by Jay Courtney Fikes; The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size, by Tor Norretranders; Bringing the War Home, by William Thomas; The Psychic Mafia, by M. Lamar Keene as told to Allen Spraggett
Junior Skeptic
- TT and Me
- Let ’em Roll!
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Are Gamblers Lucky?
- Science Surfing
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Web Sites That Make The Grade
- Toying Around with Science
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The Physics Behind Toys and Gags; Magic Tricks, Science Facts; More Magic Tricks, Science Facts; Physics Lab in a Housewares Store; Physics Lab in a Hardware Store; Physics Lab in the Home; Forces, Motion, and Energy; Magic and Perception: The Art and Science of Fooling the Senses
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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
Easy Lessons
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.