Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, volume 2 number 3:
Table of Contents
News
- Holocaust Denial; Allen, Randi at Caltech; Skeptic in Supermarkets; Creationists’ Latest Strategy Countered; Where Your Membership Money Goes; Randi Supernova; CBS Not Thwarted by Hoax; “Protocols” Forgery; SETI Program Ended; Gallo Vindicated; Should Science be Censored?; Silicon Psychic; Murder Blamed on Witchcraft; The Millennium — 7 or 8 Years Away?; Lives of a Biology Watcher; What Jesus Really Said; Every Time a Bell Rings; A Dickens of a Lady; Embassy for E.T.; What is a Humanist?; Supreme Court Denies Atheists
Forum
- Letters
- Satanic Smoke; Geller Cutlery; Skeptical Thought Control; Elvis Called Me; The Science of Santa; Christianity Not Founded by a Jew, Larue Responds; Scientific Ignorance and Arrogance, Rothman Responds; Babbage Not Top 12; Freethinkers and Charismatic Paranoids; Debunking Ayn Rand; Rand Not an Absolutist?; The Shermer “Phenomena(on)”; By Any Other Name; Truth — the First Casualty?; Hanging on to the First Amendment; Meeting the Test; Welcome to Our Offices; Asking the Right Questions; Not an Idiot
Reviews
- Desperately Seeking Sanity
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Science and Anti-Science,
by Gerald Holton
- Scenes from the Books of Life
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Deconstruction as a Form of Skepticism:
Scenes From Deep Time,
by Martin Rudwick and
The Book of Life,
by Stephen Jay Gould
Special Section:
ARKeology
- Sun Goes Down in Flames
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The Jammal Ark Hoax
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The Incredible Mysteries
of Sun Pictures - Flood Myths & Sunken Arks
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Who Needs to Believe
in Noah’s Ark and Why?
Articles
- How Do You Explain That?
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How Thinking Goes Wrong
- Skeptic Lite
- Elvis Impersonators — Is It Genetics, Environment, or in the Stars?
Special Section:
The Mind
- An Epidemic of Accusation
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The Chaos of Witch Crazes and
their Modern Descendants
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Recovered Memory Therapy
& False Memory Syndrome - Misplaced Trust
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A First Person Account of How My Therapist Created False Memories
- Facilitated Communication
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Mental Miracle or Slight of Hand?
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The Illusion of
Science in Psychiatry - Diagnoses are Not Diseases
- A Skeptical Analysis of Psychiatry
- William Reich
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Epigones of Orgonomy:
The Incredible History of William Reich and his Followers
Pseudo — Psycotherapy:
UFO’s, Cloudbusters, Conspiracies, and Paranoia in William Reich’s Psychotherapy
- Sex, Brains & Hands
- How Women and Men Think
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