Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 14 Number 2
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Evolution of Intelligence
- Predicting Evolution
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How Likely is it that Human-level Intelligence will Evolve Again?
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The Chain of Accidents
& the Rule of Law -
The Role of Contingency & Necessity in the Evolution
of Higher Intelligence
News
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The Phoenix Lights
Explained (Again) - Arthur C. Clarke
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Visionary science-fiction author
- Socratic Skepticism
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Near Death Experiences
& the Medical Literature -
How Skeptics Confronted
9/11 Conspiracy Advocates
Forum
- Letters
- Universal Jackpots v. Intelligent Design; Reality Bites Journalist!; In Whose Belief Do We Trust?; Animal Rights & Research
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More Words
on Consciousness - Global Warming Forum
Expelled Exposed!
- Ben Stein’s Blunder
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In a new documentary film — Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed — the actor, game show host and financial columnist Ben Stein falls for the pseudoscience of
Intelligent Design
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The Facts about the “Expelled” Scientists
in Expelled -
Guillermo Gonzalez and
Iowa State University
- Expelled & the Trouble Ahead for American Science
Articles
- The Myth of the Stages of Loss, Death & Grief
- Criminal Profiling
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Granfalloons and Gobbledygook
- The Curious Case of Freeman Dyson & the Paranormal
Features
- ’Twas Brillig…
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Prayer and Pregnancy;
Shooting UFO Photos
- The SkepDoc
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Popular Medical Fallacies:
Ancient Wisdom; It Works for Me;
Natural is Good
Reviews
- The Matrix of the Brain
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A Mind of its Own:
How Your Brain Distorts & Deceives by Cordelia Fine
- Evolution in Our Genes
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Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA by Daniel J. Fairbanks
- Snake Oil Science
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The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine by R.Barker Bausell
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Gimme That
Old-Time Irreligion -
Irreligion:A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up by John Alan Paulos
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Between Scientism
& Postmodernism -
Darwinian Misadventures in the Humanities by Eugene Goodheart
- The Ghost in the Machine
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The Spiritual Brain by Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary
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Science & Religion
on the Rack -
Thank God for Evolution!: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World by the Rev. Michael Dowd
- CAM Scam
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Suckers: How Alternative
Medicine Makes Fools of Us All
by Rose Shapiro
- Fundamental Truths
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Bondage of the Mind by R.D.Gold
Junior Skeptic
- The Crystal Skulls
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- An Era of Fakes
- The Proof of “Provenance”
- Why Fake a Skull?
- F.A. Mitchell-Hedges — the “Real Indiana Jones” — Or a Faker?
- The Search for Atlantis
- the Lost City of Lubaantun
- Hoax Skulls
- An inspiration for the Original Cursed Skull Story
- More Tall Tales
- The Bottom Line
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The Believing Brain
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In this, his magnum opus, Dr. Michael Shermer presents his comprehensive theory on how beliefs are born, formed, nourished, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished. Sam Harris calls The Believing Brain “a wonderfully lucid, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the boundary between justified and unjustified belief.” Leonard Mlodinow calls it “a tour de force integrating neuroscience and the social sciences.”
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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
Harriet Hall, MD (aka the SkepDoc), shares her wit and wisdom about alternative medicine including: chiropractic, the placebo effect, homeopathy, acupuncture, and the questionable benefits of organic food, detoxification, and ‘natural’ remedies.
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Learn to be a Psychic in 10
Easy Lessons
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.