Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 9 Number 3
Table of Contents
Cover Story
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Ufology, God-talk
& Theology - An excerpt from The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs
Articles
- ’Twas Brillig…
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The Pigasus “Flying Pig” Awards for 2001 Plus: How to Talk to the Dead
- Neo-Confederates at the Gate
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The Rehabilitation of the Confederate Cause and the Distortion of History
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A.I. and the Return of
the Krell Machine -
Nanotechnology, the Singularity, and the Empty Planet Syndrome
- The Attorney & the Shrink
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Clarence Darrow, Sigmund Freud, and the Leopold and Loeb Trial
Reviews
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Autonomous Agents &
Free Lunches in the
Modern Economy -
A review of Investigations
by Stuart Kauffman
- Reincarnation All Over Again
- Evidence for reincarnation rests on backward reasoning. A review of Ian Stevenson’s Reincarnation and Biology
- Witch Fever
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A review of A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials, by Laurie Winn Carlson and Ivan R. Dee
- I See Dead People
- Review of The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death by Gary E. Schwartz, PhD
- Monotheism’s Legacy
- A review of One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism, by Rodney Stark
News
- Atlantis in Fantasyland
- A Mickey Mouse Documentary about the Lost Continent
- 2002 Emily Rosa Award
- How a Skeptic Achieved “Enlightenment”
- (and How This Phenomenon is Explained)
- Angel Beliefs on the Rise
Special Section:
Education
- Science Education is No Guarantee of Skepticism
- Pseudoscience at 30,000 Feet
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Suggestology, Suggestopedia and Accelerated Language Learning
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Social Influence & the
Power of the Pyramid - Cognitive Catastrophes
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How Smart People
Sabotage Their Thinking
Forum
- Letters
- The Mysterians; Race in Black and White; Anthropological Romanticism; Who Designed the Designer?; Show Me the Data; Magicians and Psychics; Gun Control as a Crazy Idea; Honestly Uncomfortable; Taken In by John Edward; Does Mindforce Exist?
- Velikovsky Section
- Velikovsky Check Mated; Velikovsky on the Fringes
- Quotes: Who Said What?
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They Never Said It;
They Also Said It -
The Skeptical
Environmentalist Forum - Pimental’s Environmentalism Shifty; Skeptical of the Skeptic of the Skeptical Environmentalist; Chartsmanship—Shifting the y axis; Lomborg True Skeptic; Lomborg’s Sloppy Research; Lomborg’s Selective Skepticism, Pimental’s Disappointing Response; Lomborg is Confused; Average Lifespan.
Junior Skeptic
- Bad Medicine Issue
- Psychic Surgery
- Snake Oil!
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Anything goes — why is it
so hard to tell what works?
- The Madman of Magic
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Three Ways to Bend a Spoon
and a Classic Coin Vanish
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The Believing Brain
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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
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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.