Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 16 Number 3
Table of Contents
Special Section/Cover Story on Islam/the Qur’an
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The Mythic Origins
of the Qur’an - Islam
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Imams, Fatwas, Jihads and Jews— Sense and Nonsense about Muslims and the Middle East.
An Interview with R. Stephen Humphreys
- Muslim Creationism and the Curious Case of Harun Yahya
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A look at a High-profile Muslim Creationist and his Christian Friends In the U.S.
News
- Bob White’s Great UFO Artifact Mystery—Solved
- Sometimes All it Takes is Finding the Right Expert
Columns
- The SkepDoc
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Aspartame: Safe Sweetener or Perilous Poison?
- Bad Language
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Automatic Writing:
Write or Wrong? - ’Twas Brillig…
- Talking to Dead Celebrities and Psychic Polaroid Photographs
Articles
- Stephen Hawking’s Other Controversial Theory
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Model Dependent Realism
in The Grand Design
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Why People Do Not
Understand Evolution -
An Analysis of the Cognitive Barriers to Fully Grasping
the Unity of Life - Extraterrestrial Aliens
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Friends, Foes, or Just Curious?
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Precognition or
Pathological Science? -
An Analysis of Daryl Bem’s Controversial paper “Feeling the Future”
Reviews
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Myths About Fat and
What to Do About It - Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It by Gary Taubes.
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Science and the
Is/Ought Problem -
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris.
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The Myth of a
Postmortem Domain -
Life After Death: The Evidence
by Dinesh D’Souza.
Forum
- Letters
- Gould’s Real Contribution; The Real Hypatia; Sports Dominance Mystery; Religion and Violence Reconsidered
Junior Skeptic
- The Kraken!
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- Hollywood’s Ultimate Monster
- Ancient Tentacles Stir
- The Island That Is A Monster
- The Scandinavian Kraken
- The Kraken Rises
- Truth and Fiction
- Meet the Kraken
- Squid Expert Dr. Steve O’Shea
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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.