Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 12 Number 1
Table of Contents
Cover Story
- Mythbusters Exposed
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How a Special Effects Crew Opened the Most Important New Front in the Battle for Science Literacy
Features
- ’Twas Brillig…
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On the Soapbox: Tom Cruise; Sylvia Browne Talks to the Animals (on the other side); Creationism at the Tulsa Zoo; Cellular Quackery
News
- Mind, Brain, & Consciousness
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The Skeptics Society 2005 Conference
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A Skeptic Goes to
an Exorcism - The Woodstock of Evolution
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The World Summit on Evolution, held in the Galápagos Islands, revealed a science rich in history and tradition, data and theory, as well as controversy and debate.
Forum
- Skeptical Opinions
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INTERNET CONSPIRACIES
Where the Absence of Evidence is Confirmation of the Claim.
- Letters
- An Argument Against Bigfoot; Required Blind, Double Good; Animal Subjects and Double Blind Studies; Not Skeptical Enough; Collapse Collapses on the Evidence; If “Mind” is a Myth, What About “Person”?; Why Derrida Matters; Do African Americans See Black or White Aliens?; The Truth is Out There … About 9/11
- Cholesterol Forum
- Cholesterol Skepticism; Disease Kills Kids, Not Cholesterol; Cholesterol Constraints
- Shakespeare Authorship Forum
- How Do We Know Shakespeare? Let Me Count the Ways; The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Question; Shakespeare in the World.
Special Section:
Evolutionary Psychology
- Sex, Jealousy & Violence
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A Skeptical Look at
Evolutionary Psychology
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Evolutionary Psychology
is Here to Stay -
A Response to Buller
Articles
- Doubting Dr. Dino
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Kent Hovind’s $250,000
Challenge Met
- Enigma
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The Faustian Bargain of
David Irving - Ezekiel’s Spaceships
- What Biased Media?
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The Right, Left, and Center of
the American Press
Reviews
- Design Inc.
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A review of Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?
by Michael Ruse.
- Elementary Evolution
- Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution by Steve Jenkins.
- God the Father
- The Psychological Roots of Religious Belief: Searching for Angels and the Parent-God by M.D. Faber.
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What the Numbers
Can Reveal - Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
- The Big Bang’s Steady State
- Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle’s Life in Science by Simon Mitton.
- The Evolution of Literature
- The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative. Edited by Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson.
- The Pentagon’s Psychic Friend’s Network
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
by Jon Ronson. -
What Evolution Isn’t:
Five reviews by Lee Traynor -
What Darwin Didn’t Know
by Geoffery Simmons
The Case for a Creator
by Lee Strobel
Origins of Life
by Fazale Rana and Hugh Ross
The Design Revolution
by William A. Dembski
Uncommon Dissent
Edited by William Dembski
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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
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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.