Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 17 Number 2
Table of Contents
Cover Story
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How We Know
Global Warming is Real
and Human Caused - Cover photo: A massive crack across Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier will produce a giant iceberg of about 350 sq. miles (900 square k). Credit: NASA/ GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team.
Special Section on
Perception Self-Deception
- The Real Foo Fighters
- A Historical and Physiological Perspective on a World War II Aviation Mystery
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Talking to the Dead,
Listening to Yourself -
An Empirical Study on the Psychological Aspects of Interpreting Electronic Voice Phenomena
- Sleep Paralysis
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A Personal Odyssey into an Apparently Paranormal Experience
Columns
- The SkepDoc
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Energy Medicine and Fantasy Physics: How Real Physics Has Been Kidnapped by Alternative Medicine Practitioners
- Bad Language
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Life on the Psychic D List: Look for Rebecca Rosen to Join the A-List of Media-Savvy Mediums
- ’Twas Brillig…
- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Christopher Hitchens, Cancer Quackery, and James Van Praagh
Special Section on
Evidence-Based Medicine
- Depression Treatment
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What Works and How We Know
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Sensory Integration
and Autism -
Science or Pseudoscience?
Articles
- Three
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Three Skeptics are Rightly Skeptical of Numerology, but There May Be Something Special About the Number
- Shroud of Turin Redux
- Have Italian researchers finally proven the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin?
- A Universe From Nothing?
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A Conversation with
Lawrence Krauss
Reviews
- As Far As Her Eyes Can See
- Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World, by Lisa Randall.
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Where the Substance
Really Isn’t - Where the Conflict Really Lies, by Alvin Plantinga.
- The Soul of Consciousness
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Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness, by Nicholas Humphrey.
- The Father of “Jurassic Park”
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Charles R. Knight: The Artist Who Saw Through Time, by Richard Milner, with an Introduction by Rhoda Knight Kalt.
Junior Skeptic
- The Mighty Moa!
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- Of Dinosaurs and Birds
- New Zealand: A land of Birds
- Great Designs Evolve Alike
- Where Did All the Moas Go?
- The Moas Revealed
- The Case for the Moa
- Have Moas been Spotted Alive?
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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.