Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 8 Number 3
Table of Contents
Special Section:
Chaos Theory
-
A Quick & Dirty
Guide to Chaos Theory -
Three Race Horses &
Four Hobby Horses
- Chaos & Complexity
- Should We Be Skeptical?
- How Nature Self-Organizes
-
Active Walks in Complex Systems
- Contingencies & Counterfactuals
-
What Might Have Been
& What Had to Be
Articles
- ‘Twas Brillig…
-
John Edward and the
Art of Cold Reading -
For Entertainment
Purposes Only - Fresh Fish: Trawling For the Truth Behind the Bumper Battle Known as the “Fish Wars”
- Educashun
-
A Moment of Clarity
- Talking Back(wards)
- A Test of the Reverse Speech Hypothesis: Are Listeners able to Detect the Emotional Content of Backward Speech?
- Borderlands
-
Deviance, Psychiatry
and Cultural Relativism
-
Humans, History
& Environments -
An Interview with Jared Diamond
- A Bang or a Whimper
-
Cosmology at the Beginning of a New Millennium
News
- Future Foundation Symposium
- Race & Sports Symposium
- Skeptic Lite
-
New Theory: God Did It!
- The Skeptics Society’s Festschrift in Honor of Stephen Jay Gould
- Richard Milner’s Musical Tribute; Over 700 Festschrift Particpants Meet, Mingle and Celebrate On the Caltech Campus; Festschrift Speakers; Batting 300 — Gouldian Stats
Reviews
- Woo Woo Science
-
The Living Energy Universe, by Gary Schwartz and Linda Russek
- Darwin for Liberals
-
A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation, by Peter Singer
- Who Was Jesus?
-
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium, by Bart D. Ehrman
-
Confessions of
a Disagreeable Man -
The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy, edited by the editors of Lingua Franca
-
The Truth About
Good Stories - The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story, by Jan Harold Brunvand
Forum
- Can Governments Really Keep Secrets?; Religion Can Kill; Skeptics Overstep Their Ganzfeld Bounds; Roger Callahan Evasive on Thought Field Therapy Results; Wolves in Academic Clothes
- Race & Sports Forum
- The Secret of Kenyan Runners; White Sprinters; Hoberman’s Critique of Entine Off the Mark; Hoberman Responds
- FDR & Pearl Harbor Forum
- FDR and Pearl Harbor; Skeptic is Gullible about FDR Conspiracy Theories; Richard Morrock Responds
- Attention Deficit Disorder
- Ritalin Not Approved for Children; FYI, ADD is a Disease; Leo’s Reasoning Misleading; Jonathon Leo Responds
- Chiropractic Forum
- Critiques of Dr. Homola; Dr. Homola Responds
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Top 10 Myths About Evolution (and how we know it really happened)
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Learn to be a Psychic in 10
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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.