Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 17 Number 1
Table of Contents
Special Section on Scientology
- Is Scientology a Cult?
- The Decline and (Probable) Fall of the Scientology Empire!
Special Section on
Harry Potter & Religion
- Religion in Harry Potter
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Do J. K. Rowling’s Novels Promote Religion or Undermine It?
Special Section: Two Views of Life After Death
- On Visions & Resurrections
- Can Hallucination Account for the Post-Crucifixion Appearances of Jesus?
- The Mortals & the Immortals
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Can Science Deliver What Religion Has Long Promised for Eternal Life?
Columns
- The SkepDoc
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Evidence-Based Medicine, Tooth Fairy Science & Cinderella Medicine
- Bad Language
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Body Language—
(Don’t) Read My Lips
- ’Twas Brillig…
- Crystal Healing 101, Humanist Activist Victory, Scientology, A Letter to James Van Praagh
Articles
- Three Cheers for Teachers
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Educational Reform Should Come from Within the Classroom and Science Can Inform Our Reforms
- 9/11 and the Science of Controlled Demolition
- Is There Any Scientific Validity to the Claims of 9/11 Controlled Demolition Conspiracists About the Collapse of the World Trade Center Buildings?
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What is the Purpose
of a Sponge? -
A Biologist Contemplates the Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything
- Is Psychology a Science?
Reviews
- Harry Potter & Jesus Christ
- Jesus Potter Harry Christ, by Derek Murphy.
- The End is Not Nigh Enough
- A is for Armageddon: A Catalogue of Disasters That May Culminate in the End of the World As We Know It, by Richard Horne.
- The Mystic Chords of Violence’s Memory
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker.
- Flowers for Nim
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Project Nim, a documentary film by James Marsh
- By Any Other Name
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Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are, by Bart D. Ehrman.
Junior Skeptic
- Fossil Fakes Part 2
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- Does Nature Lie?
- Fossil Crime Scenes
- Be a Fossil Detective
- Piltdown and Calaveras Man
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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
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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.