Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 12 Number 2
Table of Contents
Cover Story
- A.I. Gone Awry
-
The Futile Quest for
Artificial Intelligence.
Special Section:
Intelligent Design
- The Dover Decision
-
A stunning blow against Intelligent Design Creationism — How the Kitzmiller et al. versus Dover Area School District Trial Unfolded.
- The Illusion of Design
- ID & SETI
- Can Intelligent Design be Considered Scientific in the Same Way that SETI is?
-
The Other Intelligent
Design Theories -
Intelligent Design is only one of many “alternatives” to Darwinian evolution.
Forum
- Letters
- Intelligent Design and Hurricane Katrina; The Truth is Out There … About 9/11; The Mind’s Own Brain.
-
Death of Philosophy/
Derrida Forum - Derrida, Newton, Einstein, and Hawking; Demonizing Derrida and Deconstruction.
- The Origin of Alien Faces
-
Examining Malmstrom’s Template: Exploring Other Options in Alien Face Experiences.
- Cholesterol, Statins, and Mortality: A Skeptical Look; Deutsch Responds to Critics.
-
Doubting Dr. Dino’s
Doubter Forum - Hovind Doesn’t Understand Science; Garbage In, Garbage Out; Misapplying Set Theory To the World of Cause and Effect; God Cannot Be Either Proved or Disproved.
Articles
- The Enigma of Coral Castle
-
Meeting the Man
with the Camera Brain
The Curious Case of Ted Serios
On the Cover
- This issue’s cover was created using 3D modeling software for the bench and robot. The same robot model appears again in the illustration on page 31. Reflection maps and backgrounds were shot on location in Victoria, BC, Canada. Robot model by Jim WW Smith; textures and composite by Daniel Loxton.
Feature
-
The Omnitron
is Still With Us
Junior Skeptic
- Pyramid Power
- Khufu’s Pyramid; “Pyramidology”; Razor Blades; Odd Inventions; Antoine Bovis Revealed; Hockey; Putting Pyramid Power To the Test!; The MythBusters Experiments; How Good Is Your Science?
News
- President Clinton on UFOs
- The 2005 IgNobel Prizes
- In Memoriam: Philip J. Klass
-
Homeopathic Placebo
New Study Says Homeopathy Doesn’t Work - Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fear
-
Young Earth Creationists:
Creation Conference in Lynchburg
Reviews
-
No Case at All
-
The Case for a Creator.
A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence that Points Towards God, by Lee Strobel.
- Science Without Borders
-
The Universe in a Single Atom:
The Convergence of Science & Spirituality, by His Holiness the
Dalai Lama.
-
9/11: A Date That
Will Live in Infamy -
The New Pearl Harbor:
Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11,
by David Ray Griffin.
-
Creationism by
Any Other Name -
The film The Privileged Planet: The Search for Purpose in the Universe.
- Dawn of the Aquarian Age
-
The Cult of Alien Gods:
H.P. Lovecraft & Extraterrestrial
Pop Culture, by Jason Colavito.
- Political Science
-
The Republican War on Science,
by Chris Mooney.
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