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: 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

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

Desperately Seeking Sanity: Science and Anti-Science,
by Gerald Holton
reviewed by Thomas McDonough
Scenes from the Books of Life: Deconstruction as a Form of Skepticism:
Scenes From Deep Time,
by Martin Rudwick and
The Book of Life,
by Stephen Jay Gould
reviewed by Michael Shermer

Sun Goes Down in Flames: The Jammal Ark Hoax
by Jim Lippard
The Incredible Mysteries of Sun Pictures: by David Bloomberg
Flood Myths & Sunken Arks: Who Needs to Believe
in Noah’s Ark and Why? by Gerald Larue

How Do You Explain That?: How Thinking Goes Wrong
by Michael Shermer
Skeptic Lite: Elvis Impersonators — Is It Genetics, Environment, or in the Stars? by Peter Huston

An Epidemic of Accusation: The Chaos of Witch Crazes and
their Modern Descendants
by Michael Shermer
Recovered Memory Therapy & False Memory Syndrome: by John Hochman
Misplaced Trust: A First Person Account of How My Therapist Created False Memories
by Laura Pasley
Facilitated Communication: Mental Miracle or Slight of Hand?
by Gina Green
The Illusion of Science in Psychiatry: by Carol Tavris
Diagnoses are Not Diseases: A Skeptical Analysis of Psychiatry by Thomas Szasz
William Reich: Epigones of Orgonomy:
The Incredible History of William Reich and his Followers
by Joel Carlinsky
Pseudo — Psycotherapy:
UFO’s, Cloudbusters, Conspiracies, and Paranoia in William Reich’s Psychotherapy
by Richard Morrock
Sex, Brains & Hands: How Women and Men Think by Diane Halpern