Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 10 Number 2
Table of Contents
Cover Story
- The Future of Intelligence:
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Are People Getting
Smarter or Dumber? -
Why Smart People
Believe Weird Things
Special In-Depth Report
-
Divine Secrets of
the Ya-Ya Universe -
Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science — or a Not-So-New Kind of Computer Program?
Articles
- ’Twas Brillig…
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Homeopathy, the French, Psychic Dreams, Testing Astrology & Numerology
- Demon Haunted Times
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Southern Bigfoot Convention
Draws Criticism
- Great Balls of Mystery!
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Is the slow rotation of this massive granite ball paranormal or normal?
Reviews
- Pious Fantasies
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A review of Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science — from the Babylonians to the Maya, by Dick Teresi
- The Ghost of God
- A review of The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science, by Taner Edisn
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From Scripture
to Space Oddity -
A review of Bible Code II: The Countdown , by Michael Drosnin
- Deus ex Machinas, Shamanism, and Gonzo Science for the Digiterati
- A review of Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality, by John Horgan.
News
- Roswell Holiday; Silver Fleece Awards; Steves Endorse Evolution
- Dead Silence
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Attending A “Live”
John Edward Seminar
- What’s the Harm?
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When Psychic Mediums
Serve as Grief Counselors
- Psychic Dodge Ball
-
The Sylvia Browne Chronology
Special Section
- Science & the Media:
- Can the Media Help Science?
- Mind Over Media
- How the News Legitimized the Paranormal and Why it Matters
Junior Skeptic
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Mount Everest &
the Savage Yeti!
- The English In Nepal; Naming Everest; The First Tracks!; What’s In a Name; The 1933 Flyover; A Nazi versus the Yeti; The Shipton Prints; Footprint Science; Legacy at the Top of the World; The Search for the Yeti; Scalps & Relics; The Hillary Expedition; International Yeti; The Quest of Reinhold Messner; Is the Mystery Solved?; Face off with a Grizzly
- The Call of the Yeti
Forum
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Can Science Explain
the Jesus Miracle? - Science,the Resurrection, and the Ludicrous Leap; Persinger’s Passover Plot; Persinger’s Swoon Theory; Resurrection Poppycock; Skeptical of Persinger’s Skepticism; Persinger Responds to Tobin Crenshaw, Jeremy Genovese, Bradley Bowen, Jerry Kahn, and John Caporale
- Time Travel Section
- Time Traveling with Oedipus Rex; Skeptical of the Time Travel Skeptics; Michael Shermer’s “The Chronology Projector Conjecture;” Ted Dace’s “Days of the Future Past;” Andrew Bernardin’s “Einstein, Batman and the Surfer”
- Letters
- Rupert is Wrong; Rupert is Right; More “Open Mind” Quotes; Thought, Intuition, and Relativity; Sharpening Ockham’s Razor
-
How I Reluctantly
Became a Skeptic
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