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The New Revisionism. What if Hitler Won the War?: Mark Weber, David Irving, and the Institute for Historical Review take on Winston Churchill, Pat Buchanan, and American Foreign Policy
by Michael Shermer

‘Twas Brillig…: The JREF Welcomes Dr. Philip Plait; Another Big Foot Hoax; Spaced Out Astronaut by James Randi
The SkepDoc: What About Acupuncture?
by Harriet Hall, M.D.

The Evolutionary 16: Shaping a New Evolutionary Synthesis While Keeping the Looneys at Bay by Massimo Pigliucci
Creationism & Evolution Beliefs Among College Students: by Ralph M.Barnes, Lesleh E. Keilholtz, and Audrey L. Alberstadt

Letters: What if ET Doesn’t Want to Call?; Acupuncture and English; Chauvinism. The SkepDoc Responds; Thank God for Evolution author responds to review

Great American Skeptics

written by Daniel Loxton
and James Loxton;
illustrations by Daniel Loxton
and Jim W. W. Smith

Flagella Myths: How Intelligent Design Proponents Created the Myth That Bacteria Flagella Look Like Man-made Machines by Mark Perakh
“I Reject Your Reality”: Germ Theory Denial and Other Curiosities
by Harriet Hall, M.D.
En-Twinned Lives: Twins Experts Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. and Nancy L. Segal of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart Re-Unite to Discuss Behavior Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology by Frank Miele
When is an OBE not an OBE?: A New Look at Out-of-Body Experiences by James Allan Cheyne
NDE Redux: Skeptics Need to Reclaim, Redefine and Embrace Near Death Experiences by Sebastian Dieguez
Whatever Happened to Stephen Wolfram?: A New Kind of Science Revisited by Garrett Neske
Doubting Altruism: New Research Casts a Skeptical Eye on the Evolution of Genuine Altruism by Kenneth W. Krause

Deconstructing the Hoax: Deconstructing the Hoax Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal
reviewed by Michael Shermer
Fire in the Sky: A Sumerian Observation of the Köfels Impact Event by Alan Bond & Mark Hempsell
reviewed by Jeff Medkeff & Martin Rundkvist
From Science Fiction to Science Fact: Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, T Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku reviewed by Tauriq Moosa
Pyramidiots, Nazis, & Post-Modernists: Archaeological Fantasies. How pseudoarchaeology misrepresents the past and misleads the public edited by Garrett G. Fagan
reviewed by Martin Rundkvist
Quackery Then & Now: Charlatan. America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock
reviewed by Harriet Hall, M.D.
Lying for God: The Dover Debacle: The Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin by Lauri Lebo
reviewed by Paul Gross
National Lampoon Meets Creationism: Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Easter Bunny by Barrett Brown and Jon P. Alston
reviewed by Donald R. Prothero
Swayonomics: Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman
reviewed by Michael Shermer