Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 15 Number 2
Table of Contents
The End of the World, Again?
- 2012 and Counting
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A NASA Scientist Answers the
Top 20 Questions About 2012
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Will Physicists
Destroy the World? -
The Large Hadron Collider
and the Threats of Catastrophe
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Physicists Will Not
Destroy the World -
Why We Need Not Worry
About the Large Hadron Collider
Features
- ‘Twas Brillig…
- A Magician in the Laboratory
- The SkepDoc
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Chiropractic: A Little Physical Therapy, a Lot of Nonsense
News
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The Problem of Bias,
Even in Biology - Darwin in Texas
- An Empirical Study on What Teachers of Evolution Believe
- A Governor’s Prayer for Rain
-
An Empirical Analysis
of a Supernatural Claim
Junior Skeptic
-
The Shocking Secret
of Thetis Lake -
- What Dwells Below?
- A Legend Is Born
- A Face for the Monster
- The Tegu Lizard
- Monster from the Surf
- More like a Pond
- The Real Solution
- Why Tell this Story at all?
Articles
- The Coriolis Effect
- Does water drain in different directions in the northern and southern hemispheres?
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Vaccines & Autism:
A Deadly Manufactroversy
Religion & Society
- Atheism Rising
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Intelligence, Science,
and the Decline of Belief -
Why Religions
Turn Oppressive -
A Perspective from
Evolutionary Psychology
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It’s Time to Teach
the Controversy -
Since Creationism Isn’t Going Away, Let’s Use it in the Classroom to Teach the Difference between Science and Pseudoscience
Reviews
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Gullible Instructing
the Gullible -
Annals of Gullibility: Why We Get Duped and How to Avoid it by Stephen Greenspan
- Philosophers, Creationists, and Serious Brainiacs
-
But is it Science? The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy (updated edition) edited by Robert T.Pennock and Michael Ruse
- Complexity Redux
- Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
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Mr. Armstrong’s Jersey
& Mr. Rogers’ Sweater - Supersense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable by Bruce M.Hood
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The Six Degrees
of Adolf Hitler - Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life by Albert-László Barabási
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Sensed Presences
in Extreme Contexts - The Third Man Factor: The Secret of Survival in Extreme Environments by John Geiger
Forum
- Letters
- Homeopathic Lake Water; Human Inevitability?; Telling Lies About JFK; Preaching to Ourselves; Aliens v. Bigfoot
- Historical Jesus
- Randi on his Double-Blind Experiment
- Positive Thinking Forum
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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.