Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, volume 1 number 4:
Table of Contents
Articles
- A.R.E. You Sure?
- The Edgar Cayce Foundation Responds to a Skeptical Critique; The Skeptics Society Replies
- Can Religion Be Rational?
Reviews
- It’s Baaack: The Nature-Nurture Debate Again
- Exons, Introns and Talking Genes: The Science Behind the Human Genome Project; Bionomics; The Inevitability of Capitalism; Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science; The Road to Equality: Evolution and Social Reality
- Discovery & Creation
- The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination; The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know Himself; The Discoverers: An Illustrated History of Man’s Search to Know Himself
News
- Houdini; Millennium Watch; Newton; Skeptics International; Norwegian Skeptics; Occidental Creationism; Tapes for Sale; Haunted Hearing; Rational Sobriety; Scope of Skepticism; UFO Support Group; Psychics Fail; Skeptic’s Predictions; Skeptics TV; Tunguska; AIDS Dispute; Extinction Extinguished
Special Section:
The Price of Intolerance
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Today’s Heretic,
Tomorrow’s Saint - Spirits, Witches & Science
- Why the Rise of Science Encouraged Belief in the Supernatural in 17th-Century England
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The Ideological
Immune System - Resistance to New Ideas in Science
- The Day the Earth Moved
- The Psychology of Resistance to the Heretical-Science of Copernicus
Books in Brief
- Jonestown: A CIA Medical Experiment?; On the Wild SIde; Clouds of Secrecy: The Army’s Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas; Missing Pieces; How To Investigate Ghosts; UFOs, Psychics, and Other Mysteries; E.T.; Top Ten Science Frauds; Ten Great Unanswered Questions of Science; Galileo; Newton; Weird Wonders
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