Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 11 Number 2
Table of Contents
Features
- ’Twas Brillig…
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The Wizards of Oz: Skeptics at the Observatoire Zététique Conduct an Exemplar Investigation
- Demon Haunted Times
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Alien Committee Pulls Plug
on Abduction Research
Articles
- The Tea Leaves of Sports Talk
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Finding Meaning
in Random Sequences
- Confessions of a Former Alternative Health Journalist
- Who Lost the Middle Ages?
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What’s Behind the Attempt to Impose A “New Chronology”
on History?
- Spirit Photography
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How Early Spiritualists Tried
to Save Religion by Using Science
Forum
- Letters
- Dogon Mystery Still Unsolved; Liam McDaid Responds; God Not Disproven by Science; Science Literacy v. Scientific Reasoning Ability; Diagnosing Role Models.
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Evolution/Creation
Issues Forum - The Reason Creationism Won’t Go Away; Fair and Biased; Paul Gross Replies; Evolutionists are Politically Left of Center; L. Kirk Hagen and Lisa Morano Respond; Towards a Theology of Evolution?
- Environmental Issues Forum
- A Whale of a Sound; Jennifer Jacquet Responds; Pesticides and Cancer: The Dialogue Continues
- Low Carb Diet Forum
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A Response to the Criticisms of
The Skinny on Fat by Patrick Johnson: The Skinny on Cholesterol - Cryonics Forum
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Cryonics Revived:
Vitrification Unjustly Vilified -
A Frozen Future?
Cryonics as a Gamble
- Historical Jesus Forum
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Who Killed Jesus?
Tim Callahan Replies
On the Cover
- Cover art by Pat Linse, Art Director for Skeptic magazine. Inspired by the art of Australian Aborigines.
Cover Stories
- The Almost Blank Slate
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Making a Case for Human Nurture
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The Revival of Human
Nature ≠ The Denial of Human Nurture -
Toward a Consilient Science
of Human Behavior
Reviews
- Dembski, Darwin & Devils
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A Review of three books:
The Design Revolution by William Dembski; God, the Devil & Darwin, by Niall Shanks; Darwinism, Design, & Public Education by John A. Campbell and Stephen Meyer.
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Intentional Deception: Intelligent Design’s
Wedge of Creationism - A review of Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design, by Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross.
- Is There Really a 67% Probability that God Exists?
- A review of The Probability of God: A Simple Calculation That Proves The Ultimate Truth by Stephen D. Unwin.
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A Stunning Chronicle
of Unbelievers - A review of Doubt: A History, by Jennifer Michael Hecht.
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Did Women’s Blood
Lead to Men’s Blood Lust? - A review of Sex Time & Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Shlain.
Junior Skeptic
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Bigfoot Part One:
Dawn of Sasquatch
- Ogres; Native Folklore and J. W.Burns— the Father of the Sasquatch; Native Eyewitnesses; The Legend Begins: A Star is Born; The Makeover: Sasquatch Becomes an Ape; Albert Ostman: Kidnapped; The Jacko Legend; The Bluff Creek Tracks: The Birth of Bigfoot; Ray Wallace; The Patterson Film; Bob Heironimus: The Man In the Suit.
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