Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 15 Number 3
Table of Contents
Psychiatry, Psychology
and the Mind
- The Top Ten Myths of Popular Psychology
- Prognosis Negative
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Psychiatry and the Foibles of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual V (DSM-V)
- The Mind is Not a Kludge
- The Psychic Industry
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Selling the Trade of Trickery
to the Next Generation
Columns
- The SkepDoc
-
A Skeptical Look
at Screening Tests
- ’Twas Brillig…
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How to Convince People
You Are Psychic - Bad Language
-
Instant Language,
Just Add Software
News
- Coma Man Media Hoax
- “Communication” by Coma Man is just “ideomotor” Ouija Board effect
- The Beverly Hills Battle for Evolution (Against Intelligent Design)
Forum
- Letters
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- Harriet Hall, M.D., the Skepdoc on Placebos Don’t Cure Anything;
- When Religions Go Bad;
- Don’t Throw Out Positive Psychology With the Bathwater;
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Christianity and the
Southern Cross; - I Could Be Wrong About God, Could You?
Articles
- Swine Flu Vaccine Fearmongering
- Oh, the Horror! Why Skeptics Should Embrace the Supernatural in Fiction
-
The Trashing of
Margaret Mead -
How Derek Freeman Fooled Us All
- The Dangers of First Contact
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The Moral Nature of Extraterrestrial Intelligence and a Contrarian Perspective on Altruism
- Magic, Skepticism & Belief
-
An Empirical Study on What Magicians Believe About the Paranormal
Reviews
- Tribute: Norman Jay Levitt 1943–2009
- Science: A Four Hundred Page Hissy-Fit
-
Science: A Four Thousand Year History by Patricia Fara
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Drowning Toads by
20-something Naturalists - Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin’s South America, by Eric Simons.
- Science & Morality
- Render Unto Darwin: Philosophical Aspects of the Christian Right’s Crusade Against Science, by James H. Fetzer
Junior Skeptic
- The Cottingley Fairies
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- Fairies Photographed; The Girls Behind the Fairies: Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright; “I Go to See the Fairies”;
- The Plot Develops;
- The Cottingley Cameras;
- The Second Photo;
- The Next Three years;
- Edward Gardner;
- From Sherlock Holmes … to Fairies?; Conan Doyle; Doyle’s Spiritualism;
- The Last of the Fairy Photos;
- Media frenzy;
- The Aftermath; The World’s Greatest Hoax?; Should He Have known?;
- Psychic Silliness;
- Fed Up With Fairies;
- The Next 60 Years;
- Randi v. Fairies;
- Confessions;
- Frances and the Fairies;
- The Bottom Line.
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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
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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.