Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 17 Number 4
Table of Contents
Cover Articles
- CAM for Cancer: Preying on Desperate People?
- Cover art by Pat Linse.
- The Reality Distortion Field
- Steve Jobs’s Modus Operandi of Ignoring Reality is a Double-edged Sword
Special Section:
Who’s in Charge?
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Free Will and
Autonomous Will -
A Physicist’s Perspective on
How We are Accountable for
Our Actions -
The New Science
of Neuroethics
Columns
- The SkepDoc
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Barefoot in Sedona: Bogus Claims About Grounding Your Feet to Earth Promote Medical Pseudoscience
- Bad Language
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Deliver Us From Bob Larson
- ’Twas Brillig…
- So Many Wonders…
Junior Skeptic
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Dark Secrets of the
Oracle-Monger -
- Ancient Schemer, Ancient Skeptic
- Portrait of a Con Artist
- Trustworthy Sources?
- Oracles
- Hatching a God
- Revealing Glycon
- Networks of Spies
- More Scammer Secrets
- Tricks and Troubles
- Testing the Oracle
Articles
- Did Native Americans Discover Europe in 60 BCE?
- Mrs. Jesus?
- No Joke: New Archaeological Find Points to a Married Christ, But is it True?
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How To Be a Skeptical
News Consumer -
Glossolalia Meets
Glosso-Psychology -
Why speaking in Tongues Persists in Charismatic Christian and Pentecostal Gatherings
- Academic Obfuscations
- The Psychological Attraction of Postmodern Nonsense
- God’s Problem
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An Interview With Howard Bloom, author of The God Problem: How a Godless
Cosmos Creates
Reviews
- Bogus, Bunk, and B.S.
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A Review of 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think are True,
by Guy P. Harrison. - How the Blind Watchmaker Made Eyes
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A Review of Evolution’s Witness: How Eyes Evolved,
by Ivan R. Schwab. - Eden Sought
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A Review of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden, by Brook Wilensky-Lanford.
- One Nation, Another Religion?
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Two Reviews: Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans, by David Niose. Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion, by Alain de Botton.
- Of Miracles and Magisteria
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A review of God and the Folly of Faith, by Victor Stenger.
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