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Volume 18 Number 1
Cover Articles:
Can Anything Be Done
About Mass Shootings?
- The Mass Murder Problem
- The Sandy Hook Effect
- Preventing Highly Improbable Mass Murders Like That at Sandy Hook Elementary School is Impossible, But There Are Things We Can Do to Decrease Violence
Columns
- The SkepDoc
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Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Myths
- Bad Language
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Climate Cold Reading: Meteorological Myths of Farmer’s Almanacs
- ’Twas Brillig…
- A Skeptic in Court, Part I
Junior Skeptic
- Ghostbuster Girls!
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- An Uphill Battle;
- Speaking with the Dead?;
- Mary Sullivan;
- Fight for the Right to Vote;
- Police Pioneers;
- Detective Sullivan v. Psychics;
- Psychic Crackdown;
- Unlikely Alliance;
- Medicine and the Law: Feminist Trailblazers Battle Each Other;
- Career Debunker;
- The Work Goes On.
Articles
- The McStegosaur Myth
- Creationists’ Claim that Live Stegosaurs Roamed Medieval Ireland
- The Devil and Don Decker
- Rain Boy Poltergeist—Case Solved
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Cracked Earth and
Crackpot Ideas - The Making of a Modern Myth
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Edward Leedskalnin’s Coral Castle
- The Sense of Being Stared At
- An Empirical Test
Reviews
- A Gentle Journey through the Truth in Rocks
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A Review of The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood, by David R. Montgomery.
- Are We Really Alone?
- A Review of Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet is Unique, by John Gribbin.
- The Evolution of Evolution
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Three Reviews: Darwin’s Ghosts:The Secret History of Evolution, by Rebecca Stott. American Genesis: The Evolution Controversies From Scopes to Creation Science, by Jeffrey P. Moran. Darwin the Writer, by George Levine.
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Foundation of a Founder
of Evo-Devo -
A Review of Once We All Had Gills: Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World, by Rudolf A. Raff.
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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.