Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 6 Number 4
Table of Contents
Articles
- ’Twas Brillig…
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The Matter of Dowsing
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Dumbth News from
This is True - Educashun
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Critical Thinking
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All Duct Out in
the Name of Science -
The Eighth First Annual Ig Nobel Awards Provides Extraordinary Proof that Science Can Be Fun
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The Lost World
of Jack Horner -
An Interview With the World’s Most Famous Dinosaur Digger
- Anastasia
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The Myth of the Miraculous Survival
Special Section:
JFK
- Tragedy on Elm Street
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Facts and Fictions in
the JFK Assassination
- Case Still Open
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Skepticism and the
Assassination of JFK
Forum
- True Origins of CSICOP; Evolution Returns to Arizona; Entropy is Evolution’s Engine; Swiss None too Swift; Darwin Awards Insensitive; Disturbing Questions; Waco: Rules of Engagement: Not Skeptical Enough; Holohoax is Shoah Business
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More Voices of
JFK Conspiracy -
The JFK Head Shot;
Assassination Science -
Do You Believe in God?
A Forum Exchange - Fear Religion, Not God; Apathetic A-Religious Ex-Atheist; Whose God?; An Irrelevantist; Ask God About Neutrino’s Mass; Defensible Non-Theism; Neighbor’s God Not Valid God; God and Non-Fat Ice Cream; The Wrong God Question
- The Case For & Against God: A Forum Exchange
- The God of Randomness: A Reply to Bruce Mazet’s “A Case For God”; A Reply to Massimo Pigliucci’s “A Case Against God”; Massimo Pigliucci Replies
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Eye Color is Irrelevant
for Psychic Claims - Ray Hyman Replies to Uri Geller
News
- Skeptic in Germany; Acupuncture and Depression; The 16 False Memories of Sybil; Gulf War or Lore Syndrome?; Spontaneous Pig Combustion?; A Little Fish in a Big Bible Pond; Fringe or Frontier Science?; Crisis in Philosophy?; So Help Me Who? New German Cabinet Swears off God; Alternative Medicine Taught in Half of Medical Schools; Belated Correction; Scientific Basis For Dracula
- Dawkins Sandbagged by Australian Creationists
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Coming Forward to
Question the Skeptics -
Gillian Brown Responds
to Barry Williams
Book Review Debate
- The following articles are a special debate on group selection and the evolution of altruism
- As They Would Do to You
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Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior, by Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson
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The Golden Rule
of Group Selection -
Reply to Robert Trivers’ review of Unto Others
- Think for Yourself
- Trivers replies to Sober and Wilson
Junior Skeptic
- Aliens
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Are Aliens Among Us? How to Ask Questions About UFOs and Other Cosmic Things
- Abducted by Aliens
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A True Story
- Psychic Math!
- How to Fake UFO Photos
Reviews
-
The Evidence of
Things Not Seen -
A review of Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon by Peter Washington
- Alternative Thinking
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A review of Barrie Cassileth, Ph.D. The Alternative Medicine Handbook: The Complete Reference Guide to Alternative and Complementary Therapies
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The Fingerprints
of Graham Hancock -
Worlds in Collision Meets Chariots of the Gods — a review of the television series Quest for The Lost Civilization
- It’s Magic!
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A review of The Art of Magic, by Carl Waldman and Joe Layden with Jamy Ian Swiss
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Top 10 Myths About Evolution (and how we know it really happened)
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