Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, volume 3 number 1:
Table of Contents
Articles
- ‘Twas Brillig…
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The Liquefying “Blood” of St. Januarius. Also: Prime-Time Quackery
- Life After False Memory Syndrome — an Update
- Electronic Skepticism
- Head-on Collisions on the Information Highway
- The Mattoon Phantom Gasser
- Was the Famous Mass Hysteria Really a Mass Hoax?
- Why Should Skeptics Understand Religion?
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Skeptical Perspectives:
A Heretic-Scientist
Among the Spiritualists - Alfred Russel Wallace and 19th-Century Spiritualism — Part I
- Is Raw Meat Conscious?
Special Section:
Pseudomedicine
- Therapeutic Touch
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Skeptics in Hand-to-Hand Combat Over the Latest New Age Health Fad
- Homeopathy
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A Position Statment by the National Council Against Health Fraud
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Chasing Shadows
on a Pitch-Black Wall -
Spiritual Belief Systems Compete as Alternatives to Scientific Health Care
Books in Brief
- God’s Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World, 1994, by Christopher Toumey; A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, 1994, by Steven Shapin; The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, by Jagdish Mehra; History of Women in Science for Young People, by Vivian Epstein; A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, 1993, by Karen Armstrong
News
- False Memories Sell; Think Your Cancer Away; UFO Lighter Than Air; A Dead Sweaty Elvis?; Mystery Fumes Called Mass Psychogenic Illness; Remember the Alamo; The Astrology of Accidents; Nat Can Con; NSTA Needs New Director; Aliens With Runny Noses; A 35mm Jesus; Color Me Blue (And Violet, Indigo, Green,Yellow, Orange, & Red); Freethinker’s Directory; Christopher Columbus, P.I.
- So Long…
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Nobel 2; Speaking of Vitamins; Sperry’s Split Brains;
Popper’s Principle - More News
- Dead in Cult Suicide; Happy 80th Martin Gardner; “Psychic” Geller Loses Libel Suit Against Prometheus
Forum
- Letters
- Boy Scout Atheists Clarification; Agnosticism Unites; The A Word; Atheists Not Obnoxious; Agnosticism is Dogmatic; The Strong and the Weak — Shermer Responds; Asimov’s Method; Right Within Limits; Mind-Boggling Trends; Smoot’s Flat Earth; The Handwriting on the Wall; ICD 273.3; Skeptical of Madonna; Urban Myth; 7-Up Anyone?
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Extreme Afrocentrism
& Holocaust Revisionism - Aborigines on the Moon?; Revisionist Jewbaiting; Hey Vito, Put it in Writing; Evil is Evil; Judeophobia and the Zionist Plot; With a Name Like Shermer…; Skeptic Part of Jewish Cabal; The Holocaust Lobby; I Have Not Now or Ever Been…; Don’t Print This; One Picture is Worth…; Not Sarcastic; The Wheat and the Chaff; Jewish Propaganda Quarterly; Some Skeptic You Are; A System Clone
- Shermer Responds
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Candelabras, Jews, & an
African-Greek-German-American
Reviews
- The Audio Classics Series
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Religion, Scriptures and Spirituality,
edited by Walter Harrelson
and Mike Hassell
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Miracles, Conspiracies
& Skinhead -
Pseudoscience and Pseudohistory at its Best: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, and Healing Cures,
by Joe Nickell;
Skinhead Street Gangs,
by Loren Christensen
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Leftist Science
& Skeptical Rhetoric -
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt
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The Thinker on
the Edge of Forever -
Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry,
by David Alexander
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