Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 7 Number 2
Table of Contents
News
- Reinventing Evolution
- 450 Attend the Skeptics Society’s 1999 Convention at Caltech
- From Moses to Memes
- Caltech Skeptics’ Lectures Draw Huge Audiences
- World War Three To Start in July Says Nostradamus; Professors’ Predictions (and Failure Excuses) as Bad as Psychics; Laundry Balls Outlawed; Illinois Cracks Down on Satanic Ritual Abuse Psychiatrist
- Cult Update
- Evolution “Just a Theory” in Nebraska; Authors Defend Evolution Teaching; Flat Earths and POSH Theories
Reviews
- A Book, A Life and A Goddess
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The Hidden Book in the Bible by Richard Elliot Friedman, Moses: A Life, by Jonathan Kirsch, and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, by Leonard Shlain
- Square Pegs & Round Holes
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An Evaluation of the Science in The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom, by Gerald L. Schroeder
- Sacred Science
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A review of The Scared Depths of Nature, by Ursula Goodenough
Forum
- Skeptics are Powerful; In Defense of Philosophy; The Skeptical Approach; Sociobiology ≠ Evolutionary Psychology; Great Pyramid Was a Power Plant; Cold Fusion Still Hot; Gould v. Huxley Agnosticism
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Deconstructing JFK:
The Assassination Debate Continues - Gerlich’s JFK Mind is Closed; Gerlich Responds; Bang! Bang! Bang! Run!!; Fractal JFK
- The Great Psychotherapy Debate Continues
- In Defense of Psychotherapy; Tana Dineen Responds To Jeffrey Tarrant
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Skeptics Respond
to Creationists - Natural Selection; Symbiosis and Gene Duplication
Articles
- ’Twas Brillig…
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Pigasus Flies Again: The Third Annual Pigasus Awards from the James Randi Educational Foundation
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Dumbth News from
This is True -
The Skeptics Society
Annual Dumbth Awards
- Educashun
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Cutting Edge
- Is Anybody Out There?
- They Never Said It!
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Freethinkers, Fundamentalists,
and Fake Quotes
- How To Evaluate New Medical Discoveries
- De-Population Myths
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How Many People Really Lived in the Americas Before the European Conquest?
Special Section:
Cloning & Genetic Engineering
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How Close Are We
to Cloning Time? -
An Introduction to the Science
and Ethics of Human Cloning
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The Man Who
Would Be Cloned -
An interview with Dr. Richard Seed Director of the Human Cloning Project
- Only God Can Do That?
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Cloning and Genetic Engineering Test the Moral Limits of Science
- The “Information Challenge”
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How Evolution Increases Information in the Genome
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Group Selection &
the Origins of Evil -
Theology &
Evolutionary Psychology -
An Historical Perspective
on a Very Old Problem
Junior Skeptic
- Urban Legends
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What’s an Urban Legend & How to Spot Them; Have you Fallen for Any of These Urban Legends?; How and Why Urban Legends Change; Fake warnings; Cow tipping; Urban Legends Slang; A True Story Behind a Legend; Use Your Understanding of Urban Legends to Improve your Storytelling Ability
- The Madman of Magic
-
Meeting Steven Hawking and The Hawking Expanding Universe Trick
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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.