Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 15 Number 4
Table of Contents
News & Cover Story
- Worlds in Collision Redux
- Velikovsky was Wrong, but New Research Indicates that Worlds Do Occasionally Collide
-
Climate Skeptics v.
Climate Deniers
Special Section:
Health Hype
- The Disappearing Male
- A Pinch of Science, a Pound of Speculation on the Alleged Disappearance of Males
- The Longevity Myth: Are We Really Living Longer? Or is the Headway Mostly Hype?
-
Do Cell Phones
Cause Cancer?
Special Section:
Teaching Stratagies
- Teaching By doing
- Turning a Biology Curriculum Upside Down
- A Magician in the Classroom
-
Using Magic and Mentalism
to Teach Skepticism
Special Section:
The Non-Religious
-
The Stigma of Being
an Atheist -
An Empirical Study on the
New Atheist Movement and
its Consequences - The Rise of the Nones and the Growth of Religious Indifference
Columns
- The SkepDoc
-
Boost My Immune System?
No Thanks!
- Bad Language
- Not-so-Linguistic Programming
- ’Twas Brillig…
- Those Damn Magic Sticks: The ADE 651 Bomb Detector Blows Up Under Scrutiny
Articles
- The $1 Million Dollar Challenge
- Testing Astrological Predictions About Sex, Marriage, and Selfishness
- Truth v. Truths
-
An Enduring Dilemma for Skeptics
Reviews
- Freakonomics Redux
- SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- Why Do Women Have Sex? Here’s Why
-
Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between), by Cindy M. Meston and David M.Buss
-
Is There Not Grandeur
in this View? -
The Greatest Show on Earth,
The Evidence for Evolution,
by Richard Dawkins - God is Love
-
The Evolution of God,
by Robert Wright -
The Mythbusters
of Psychology -
50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior, by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, John Ruscio,
and Barry L. Beyerstein - The Good News … Again?
-
The Reason for God: Belief
in an Age of Skepticism,
by Timothy Keller
Junior Skeptic
- Top Ten Busted Myths
-
- Newspaper Horoscopes
- Dowsing
- Moon Landing Hoax
- Homeopathy
- The Loch Ness Monster
- The 10% Brain Myth
- The Bermuda Triangle
- The Skull of Doom
- Roswell UFO Crash
- Ghost Orbs
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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.