Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 11 Number 1
Table of Contents
On the Cover
- “UFOs in art.” For more examples of UFOs in art not covered in this issue go to the author’s website.
Cover Story
- The Art of Imagining UFOs
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The Search for Images of Spaceships in European Paintings Provides an Important Lesson for All Paranormal Enthusiasts
— Do Your Homework
Features
- ’Twas Brillig…
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Replicating the Real Thing: UFOs, Photographs & the Burden of Proof
- Demon Haunted Times
-
Researcher Claims to Have
Found Star Wars Galaxy
World Report
- The Physician-Shaman
-
Early Origins of
Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Legends of the Dogon
-
Belief in a Long-Solved
Mystery Resurfaces
-
The Mass Suicide
of the Xhosa -
A Study in Collective Self-Deception
- Enchanted Flim Flam
-
A Skeptical View of Puerto Rico,
the Enchanted Island
- Salt, Toothpaste & the CIA
-
Conspiracy Theory in
Contemporary Indian Society
- A Skeptical Look at African Witchcraft and Religion
Junior Skeptic
-
The Loch Ness Monster
- The 70-year Hunt; The Monster and the Saint; The Modern Nessie Story; Mackay & Spicer Sightings; Shaggy Dogs & Hippo Tracks; The Surgeon’s Photo; The 1930s; Nessie’s 1950 comeback; Full Scale Investigations; Underwater Photography; Sonar; Plesiosaurs; The Bottom Line.
News
-
Strange Fish:
Charles F. Berlitz.
- The Texas Textbook Wars
-
Can Quantum Physics
Explain Consciousness? -
Cryonics Redux:
Is Vitrification Viable? -
Think Skeptically,
Act Locally -
50 Things You Can Do
to Encourage Critical Thinking
Reviews
- Design, Agency, Baloney
-
A review of Unintelligent Design
by Mark Perakh. - Dawkins, Darwin & the Devil
- A review of A Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love by Richard Dawkins.
-
May Minerva Awake You
Satire, Post 9/11 -
A review of The Holy Land
by Robert Zubrin. - Big Foot Con
- A review of The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story by Greg Long.
- Blood & Passion
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A review of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, and an analysis of Who Really Killed Jesus
- The Imperial Faith
-
A review of God Against the Gods by Jonathan Kirsch.
- Cracking the Da Vinci Code?
-
A review of The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown.
Forum
- Letters
- Einstein’s Learning Disability; What Great Timing!; Newton Out of Time in Orrery Story; Thanks from a Christian; Creation, Evolution & God; Constantine; What About the Palestinians?; Skeptical of Teaching Skepticism Data; Still Room for Quantum Doubt
- Creationism Forum
- More Attention To Deism; Creationist Continuum as a Tactic; Linguistic Creationists.
- Evolution Issues Forum
- Group Selection & Religion; Breaking the Naturalistic Mold; Creationist Morris (Simon Conway, not Henry)
- Low Carb Diet Forum
- Johnson Ignores Experimental Results; The Skinny on Cholesterol; What About Hunger?
- Free Will Forum
- Free Will & Determinism Compatible?; Emergent Phenomena
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