Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 11 Number 3
Table of Contents
Cover Stories
- Collapse
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The Dozen Most Serious Environmental Problems &
What We Can Do About Them
- Catastrophe
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The Dozen Most Significant Catastrophic Risks & What We
Can Do About Them
On the Cover
- The ruins of the collapsed Anasazi civilization at Canyon de Chelley, located in northern Arizona. Such sites, scattered throughout the Southwestern United States, represent more than 1500 years of human occupation. The Anasazi abandoned the area around 1200 AD Adapted from a photograph by Michael Shermer.
Features
- ’Twas Brillig…
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Preparation 500, Magnet Man & Comet Nostradamus
- Demon Haunted Times
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Homeopathic Killer
Still On the Loose!
Junior Skeptic
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Bigfoot Part Two:
The Case For Sasquatch
- Behind The Legend;
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Footprint Evidence:
Cripplefoot tracks:
Bigfoot fever; Conspiracies; -
Hoaxes:
Hoaxing 101; Da Vinci Hoaxes; -
Physical Evidence:
Bodies; Hair Samples; DNA; -
The Bottom Line:
Could Sasquatches Exist?
News
- More On Shakespeare’s Authorship
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Court TV’s Psychic Detectives
Noreen Renier & the Williston Case - The Truth About Cholesterol
Articles
- Audiophoolery
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An audio engineer, musician, and skeptic reveals that the worlds of audio engineering and consumer electronics are filled with pseudoscience.
- The Double-Blind Gaze
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How the Double-Blind Experimental Protocol Changed Science
- Flashbulb Memories
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How Psychological Research Shows That Our Most Powerful Memories May Be Untrustworthy.
Reviews
- Sex & the Brain
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A review of The Science of Romance: Secrets of the Sexual Brain, by Nigel Barber.
- The Skeptic in You
- A review of The Psychic in You: Understand and Harness Your Natural Psychic Power by Jeffrey A. Wands with Tom Philbin.
- The God Question
- A review of A Question of God, a film by Catherine Tatge and Dominique Lesseur.
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Ramtha’s School of
Quantum Flapdoodle - A review of What the #$*! Do We Know?, a film by William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, and Mark Vicente, starring Marlee Matlin.
- Energy Medicine
- A review of Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis by James L. Oschman.
- Is That All There Is?
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A review of What Is Thought?
by Eric Baum. -
Connecting the Dots
to Nowhere - A review of Civilization One: The World is not As You Thought it Was by Christopher Knight and Alan Butler.
Forum
- Letters
- Obesity; Sports Handicapping; Medical Myth
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Special Section:
Nature-Nurture Debate - Comments About Hank Schlinger’s Article “The Blank Slate”
- Deceptive Advertising, Smoke and Mirrors, and Flawed Logic — Schlinger Responds
- Comments about Frank Miele’s Article The Revival of Human Nature ≠ the Denial of Human Nurture
- Nature & Nurture: Putting All the Pieces Together — Miele Replies
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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
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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.