Back Issues, volumes 1 through 19
volume 18 number 1
The Mass Murder Problem
The Mass Murder Problem and What to Do About it; The Sandy Hook Problem and the Real Decline of Violenc; A Geologist Looks at: Noah’s Flood and Comic Book Legend Neal Adams’ Expanding Earth Theory, SkepDoc Examines Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity; Rain Boy Poltergeist Case Solved; Coral Castle, Junior Skeptic on Ghostbuster Girls!; and more…
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volume 17 number 4
Alternative Cancer Cures
Steve Job’s Reality Distortion Field; Psychology of Speaking in Tongues; Media Fact Checking Guide; Bogus Barefoot Cure-all; Internet Exorcist Bob Larson; Did Americans Discover Europe First?; Howard Bloom Interview; Psychology of Postmodern Nonsense. Reviews: How Eyes Evolved; Secular Americans & Religion for Atheists; 50 Misconceptions; “God and the Folly of Faith”; Where is the Garden of Eden? Who’s in Charge? Free Will; New Science of Neuroethics. Junior Skeptic: Dark Secrets of the Oracle-Monger
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volume 17 number 3
Christian Nation?
Is Ours a Christian Civilization?; Are We Alone? How Astronomers are Searching for Extrasolar Planets; The Flake Equation; The Physics of UFOs; Interstellar Travel; multiple personality disorder; Mokele Mbembe, genesis creation mythology; why there is something rather than nothing; facilitated communication; Celebrating the Reason Rally; moral cognition testing; faith in the age of science…
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volume 17 number 2
Climate Change Q&A
How We Know Global Warming is Real and Human Caused; Special Section on Perception Self-Deception; Special Section on Evidence-Based Medicine; A Historical and Physiological Perspective on a World War II Aviation Mystery; Talking to the Dead: An Empirical Study on the Psychological Aspects of Interpreting Electronic Voice Phenomena; Sleep Paralysis; Energy Medicine and Fantasy Physics; Depression Treatment…
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volume 17 number 1
Scientology
Is Scientology a Cult?; New Revelations on the History, Future, and Reformation of Scientology; 9/11 Controlled Demolition Conspiracy Debunked; Can Science Deliver Eternal Life?; Was the Resurrection a Grief Hallucination?; Body Language Baloney?; The Secret Behind Outstanding Teaching; A Biologist on the Meaning of Life…
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volume 16 number 4
The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers
The Truth About Antioxidants, Precognition Research: Paranormality and Precognitive Dreams, Reason v. Faith, Fossil Hoaxes, The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers!, Who Believes That Aliens Landed at Roswell?, Record Tornados: Chance or Global Warming?, …
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volume 16 number 3
Islam
The Mythic Origins of the Qur’an; Imams, Fatwas, Jihads and Jews—Sense and Nonsense about Muslims and the Middle East; Muslim Creationism and the Curious Case of Harun Yahya; Skepdoc on Aspartame: Safe Sweetener or Perilous Poison?; Science and the Is/Ought Problems; Myths About Fat and What to Do About It…
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volume 16 number 2
The Origin of Life
How Did Life Begin; How Close Are We to Creating Life in the Lab?; Who Still Believes in 9/11 Conspiracies?; What is Naturopathy?; Was Hypatia of Alexandria a Scientist?; Stradivarius Pseudoscience; Lying About Placebos…
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volume 16 number 1
The Happiness Industry
Our Cultural Obsession with Happiness; The Happiness Industry; Workplace Happism; When to Avoid Optimism; The Myth of Quantum Consciousness; Motorcycle Maintenance Without the Zen; The Science of Changing People’s Minds…
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volume 15 number 4
Climate Skeptics
Climate Skeptics: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Dowsing Rod Bomb Detectors; Sex & Astrology; What is Truth?; Stigma of Being an Atheist; Health Hype: Are We Really Living Longer? Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? Do Environmental Chemicals Destroy Male Fertility? Boosting Your Immune System; Teaching Strategies: Magic in the Classroom; The Grinnell Experiment…
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volume 15 number 3
Mind Myths
Top Ten Psych Myths; Is the Mind Designed or a Kludge?; Debunking Diagnoses in the DSMV; How the Psychic Industry Works; Is Instant Language Learning Possible?; Battle for Evolution; Resurrection of Margaret Mead; Dangers of First Contact with Aliens; Norm Levitt’s Last Defense of Science…
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volume 15 number 2
2012 — The End of the World Again?
A NASA Scientist Answers the Top 20 Questions About 2012; Large Hadron Collider: Will Physicists Destroy the World? Pro & Con; Why Atheism & IQs Are Rising; Skepdoc on Chiropractic; Coriolis Effect Myth; Thetis Lake Monster…
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volume 15 number 1
Christian Conspiracy Theory
40 years of Scooby-Doo; Origins Conspiracy Theory; Homeopathy; Placebos; UFO Hoax; Atheism a Religion?; Testing Orgone Energy; Evolutionary Economics; Ape Language Controversy; Science of Love…
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volume 14 number 4
Fooled by Ponzi (and Madoff)
How Bernard Madoff Made Off with My Money; What to Eat: Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants; Misleading by Petition; A Skeptic Visits Noah’s Ark; The Art of Cold Reading…
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volume 14 number 3
The New Revisionism
What if Hitler Won the War?; Doubting Altruism; Lying for God; Flagella Myths; Germ Theory Denial and Other Curiosities; NDE Redux…
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volume 14 number 2
Evolution of Intelligence
Predicting Evolution; The Role of Contingency & Necessity in the Evolution of Higher Intelligence; Evolution in Our Genes; Expelled Exposed; The Matrix of the Brain…
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volume 14 number 1
Global Warming
A Climate of Belief; How We Know Global Warming is Real: The Science Behind Human-induced Climate Change; How to solve the global warming problem by 2020…
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volume 13 number 4
Quirkology
The Big Truths in Small Things; Skeptical Analysis of the Evidence for Nonhuman Primate Language; The Myth of the Mozart Effect; Consciousness is Nothing But a Word…
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volume 13 number 3
Medical Controversies
Science & Secondhand Smoke; Exposing the Vaccine-Autism Myth; The Trouble with Psychiatry; Animals & Medicine; Contested Testimony in Scientific Disputes…
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volume 13 number 2
Richard Dawkins & Religion
Two reviews of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion; The Science of Friendship; Dawkins v. Collins Debate; Why This Universe?; The Skeptic’s Chaplain…
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volume 13 number 1
The Legacy of Carl Sagan
An Interview with Ann Druyan; Science, Religion & Human Purpose; An excerpt from Conversations with Carl; Tributes to Carl Sagan…
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volume 12 number 4
9/11 Conspiracies
What Demolition Experts Say About 9/11; Is ID really like big bang theory?; Lonesome George: The Last Animal on Earth; Keeping an Eye on Alternative Medicine…
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volume 12 number 3
Religion
Orthodox Jews & Science; Religious Belief & Societal Health; Does Prayer Work?; Debate: Deepak Chopra v. Michael Shermer; Using Pseudoscience to Teach Science…
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volume 12 number 2
Artificial Intelligence
The Other Intelligent Design Theories; A.I. Gone Awry; Special Section: Intelligent Design; The Dover Decision; The Origin of Alien Faces…
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volume 12 number 1
Debunking with KABOOM! Meet the Mythbusters
Sex, Jealousy & Violence; Evolutionary Psychology Is Here to Stay; A Skeptic Goes to an Exorcism; The Woodstock of Evolution; Doubting Dr. Dino…
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volume 11 number 4
Ernst Mayr, 1904–2005
Close Encounters of the Facial Kind; The Da Vinci Code Cult; The Dream World of William Dembski’s Creationism; John of God; How The Human Got Its Mind…
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volume 11 number 3
Catastrophe. Collapse.
Catastrophe by R. A. Posner; Collapse by J. Diamond; Double-Blind Protocol and Science by S. Bratman; Consumer Electronic Myths by E. Winer…
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volume 11 number 2
Nature vs. Nurture
The Almost Blank Slate; The Revival of Human Nature ≠ The Denial of Human Nurture; Who Lost the Middle Ages?; The Tea Leaves of Sports Talk…
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volume 11 number 1
Medieval UFOs?
Early Origins of Traditional Chinese Medicine; The Mass Suicide of the Xhosa; Salt, Toothpaste & the CIA: Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary Indian Society…
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volume 10 number 4
Low Carb Craze
The Skinny on Fat; Was Einstein Learning Disabled?; New “Isn’t Round” Theory Demands Equal Time; Paranormal & God Belief Survey Results…
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volume 10 number 3
Evolution, Intelligent Design
Towards a Theology of Evolution?; The Big “Bright” Brouhaha; Creationism’s Expanding Universe; Macroevolution & Microcreationism…
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volume 10 number 2
Stephen Wolfram’s Science
The Future of Intelligence; Science & the Media; Can the Media Help Science?; Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Universe…
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volume 10 number 1
Roswell Requiem
Psychic for a Day; Ockham’s Razor Dulled; Is Time Travel Possible?; Alaska’s Mysterious HAARP; Do We Fear the Wrong Things? …
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volume 09 number 4
Stephen Jay Gould Tribute
Gould as Historian, Scientist, Friend; 9/11 Conspiracy Review; Two Shakespeares?; Junior Skeptic: Seamonsters; Coincidence…
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volume 09 number 3
A.I. and Theology of UFOs
ETs and God; Artificial Intelligence v. Human Nature; How Smart People Sabotage Their Thinking; Neo-Confederates at the Gate; A.I. and the Krell Machine…
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volume 09 number 2
Environmental Skeptic
How Bad Off Are We; David Pimentel debunks Lomborg; Evolutionary Psychology pros & cons; Spooky Numerical Matches; The Wisdom of Skeptics…
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volume 09 number 1
Anthropology Wars
Intro to Anthro Wars; Steven Pinker Interview; Science v. Spin Doctoring; Margaret Mead/Anthro Controversy; Velikovosky at Fifty…
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volume 08 number 4
Intelligent Design
special Evolution/Creation book review section; Intelligent Design Theory; Why Christianity Won; Physics & Time; Mills’ “Hydrino” Theory Breakthrough?; Mark Twain & Religion…
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volume 08 number 3
Chaos & Complexity
Quick Introduction to Chaos Theory; Chaos Skepticism; Contingencies; Complex Systems; Latest Cosmology; Darwin Bumper Fish; Reverse Speech; Cultural Relativism…
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volume 08 number 2
Science & Religion
Frans de Waal Interview; Agnosticism; Skeptic’s Faith?; Influence and Scientology; Life’s Meaning; Existence; Personal Gods; Prayer Heals?…
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volume 08 number 1
Race & Sports
Black Domination; Race Sports Myths; Race Differences; Meaning of Dominance; Ernst Mayr Interview; Free Energy; Nonzero/Human Gaia; Attention Deficit Disorder…
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volume 07 number 4
Pseudoscience
When Satan Came to Texas; the Madness of Crowds; Million Dollar Madness; ET May Be Out There; Anatomy of Nonsense; Cloning Forum; Special Carl Sagan section…
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volume 07 number 3
Millennium Madness
Search for Immortality; Creation and The End; Celestine Prophesy; Millennial Meanings; That’s All Folks!; Myth and Science; Political Extremism; Autopsy Aliens…
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volume 07 number 2
Cloning & Genetic Engineering
Cloning Science & Ethics; Cloning & Science’s Moral Limits; Evolution Information; Evil & Group Selection; Theology & Evolutionary Psychology; Pigasus Awards…
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volume 07 number 1
Influence
Fraud and Science; Hidden Dynamics of Communication; The Knowledge Filter; Christian Science and Quantum Physics; Fortunetelling; Public Relations…
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volume 06 number 4
JFK
JFK Facts and Fictions; JFK Case Still Open; Anastasia: Miraculous Survival Myth; Aliens Among Us?; Psychic Math!; UFO Photos…
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volume 06 number 3
Why Professors Believe Weird Things
Sex, Race, and the New Left; Alternative Religion Supporters; Meme Critique; Psychotherapy Snake Oil?; Randi on True Believers; Bigfoot…
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volume 06 number 2
Taking God Seriously
Deepak Chopra Danger; Ray Hyman Interview; Atheist v. Agnostic; Karl Popper on God; For God and Against God; Intellectual Danger; Answering Creationists…
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volume 06 number 1
Science & Society
E.O. Wilson Interview; Skeptical of Objective Journalism; GRE as Fringe Science; Drug Policy Debate Guide; Fraud in the Name of Religion?; New Age High Tech…
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volume 05 number 4
Pseudoscience
Acupuncture’s Secrets Revealed; A Not-So-Psychic Detective; The Myth of Egyptian Pi; What’s Your Sign?; In Search of the Chinese Fountain of Youth…
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volume 05 number 3
Anthropology
Human Origin Stories; God and Ghost Dance; Mead and Anthropology; Indians v. Archaeologists; X-Files Meets Disney; Houdini v. Margery; Alternative Medicine…
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volume 05 number 2
The God Question
Martin Gardner Interview; Bible Code; Einstein’s God; What Happened to Atheism?; God Evidence?; Rural Religions; Case Against Immortality…
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volume 05 number 1
Enviro Science
Ecologists v Economists; Polution Risk Assessment; the Not-So-Wise-Use Movement; Julian Simon Slams Eco-Crybabies; Top Scientists’ Ecological Warning…
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volume 04 number 4
Carl Sagan Tribute
Can History Be Science?; Sulloway on Born to Rebel; Debunking Nostradamus; Critical Thinking About History; Left and Right Science; What Happened to N-Rays?…
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volume 04 number 3
Conspiracy
World’s End; Farrakhan and Paranoid Style; Freud’s Follies; Political Correctness Conspiracy; End of Science; Randi on Police Psychics…
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volume 04 number 2
Evolutionary Ethics
Science of Morality; Miele interviews Garrett Hardin; Morality and Genetic Engineering; Evolution of Morality and Religion; Ethics Without Religion; Cosmythology; Superstition…
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volume 04 number 1
Evolutionary Psychology
Stephen Jay Gould Interview; (Im)moral Animal; Sociology as Alchemy; Beyond Just-So-Stories; How Humans Got Spots; Gould’s Dangerous Idea; Darwin Dangerous?…
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volume 03 number 4
Cosmology & God
Can Science Prove God?; Richard Dawkins Interview; Cosmological Crisis?; Physics of Immortality; Velikovsky — Pro, Con, and History; In-Group Morality…
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volume 03 number 3
Race & IQ
Bell-Shaped Curve’s Skewed Logic; Defending the Bell Curve; Scientology versus the Internet; “Curse” of King Tut; How to Eat a Light Bulb; “Recovered Memories”…
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volume 03 number 2
AIDS
AIDS Heresies; Astrology Brouhaha; Should the Bible be Taken Literally?; Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence; Parapsychologists and New Agers…
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volume 03 number 1
Pseudomedicine
Update False Memory Syndrome; Homeopathy; Alternative Healthcare; Therapeutic Touch; Leftist Science; Mattoon Mass Hysteria; Star Trek’s Meaning; Liquefying “Blood”…
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volume 02 number 4
Pseudohistory
Free Speech & Neo-Nazis; Denying the Holocaust; Afrocentrism & Holocaust Revisionism; Creationism & Racism; Were Egyptians & Greeks Black?; Beyond Race…
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volume 02 number 3
Fad Psychology
False Memory Syndrome; Facilitated Communication; Diagnoses are not Diseases; Sex, Brains, and Hands; How Thinking Goes Wrong; Pseudoscience in Psychiatry…
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volume 02 number 2
Science, Religion & Cults
The Jesus Cults; What Makes a Cult?; The Unlikeliest Cult of All; The Resurrection Myth; Was Christianity a Cult?; Realism and Religion…
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volume 02 number 1
Genius: Myth & Reality
Amadeus Myth; “Science” of Noah’s Ark; “Science” of Noah’s Ark; Genius by Steve Allen, James Randi, Paul MacCready, James Gleick et al (on Feynman)…
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volume 01 number 4
Witches, Heretics & Scientists
Today’s Heretic, Tomorrow’s Saint; Spirits, Witches and Science; Resistance to Heretical Science of Copernicus; Ideological Immune System…
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volume 01 number 3
Revolution in Evolution?
Darwin & Gould Investigate Edgar Cayce; 20 years of Punctuated Equilibrium; Historic 1842 Sketch on Evolution; the Nature of Change; Darwinian Culture…
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volume 01 number 2
Cryonics
Can Science Cheat Death?; Use and Abuse of Statistics in the “Real World”; Reaching for Tomorrow; Altered States and the Quest for Transcendence; Q & A About Cryonics…
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volume 01 number 1
Tribute to Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov Tributes by Steve Allen, Martin Gardner and Harlan Ellison; Skeptics Society’s Manifesto; The Most Precious Thing We Have — The Triumph of the Scientific Method…
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