Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, volume 3 number 2:
Table of Contents
Bell Curve Issue Preview
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For Whom the
Bell Curve Tolls -
An interview with the author of The Bell Curve, Charles Murray. On IQ, Race, Class, Gould, Gardner, and the Clintons
Articles
- ‘Twas Brillig…
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The Great Astrology Brouhaha: The Internet Becomes a Weapon of Change
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Should the Bible
be Taken Literally? - Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?
- A Reappraisal of a Classic Skeptics’ Axiom
- A Gentlemanly Arrangement
- Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, and the Resolution of a Scientific Priority Dispute: The story of how the co-discoverers of natural selection resolved a scientific priority dispute offers deep insight into the nature of discovery and history
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The Question All
Skeptics are Asking -
Why Did God Make Rice Cakes?
Special Section:
The AIDS Heresies
- Does HIV Really Cause AIDS?
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A Case Study in Skepticism Taken Too Far
- AIDS Part I
- The Skeptics and Their Claims
- AIDS Part II
- How Skepticism Went Astray
- AIDS Part III
- Lessons on How Science Works
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The Imperial Animals
25 Years Later -
An Interview with Lionel Tiger
and Robin Fox
- An Urchin in a Haystack
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An interview with
Stephen Jay Gould - Gould’s Dangerous Idea
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Contingency, Necessity, and
the Nature of History
- How Dangerous is Darwin?
News
- “Cool Moss Clinton”; Randi 1 — Geller 0; Scholastic Magazine Haunted by Nostradamus; Janos Was No Janus: So Long to a Skeptical Friend; California Has its Faults; No Satanic Abuse; Repressed Memory Suit Dismissed; South African Witchcraze; No Social Security For UFOs; Mystery Fumes Not Mass Hysteria; Psychic Cats; Ig Nobel Peace Prize; California Cloudbusting; The Madness of King George (& the American Public); A Trip to Waco; Why Ask Why; Corporate Religion.
Forum
- Suicide Astrology; Am I Crazy? Seeking Answers — 20 Questions; Abducted by Santa; A Psychic Test for Skeptics; A Skeptical Test of Graphoanalysis; Lucky Chicken Crap; The Great Atheism — Agnosticism Debate; Skeptical Religion; Challenging Drees — Religion is Not a Deterrent; Understanding the Total Human Experience — Drees Responds; Randi is Wrong; Reality is Right — Randi Responds; The Skeptics Dogmatic Society — Raso Needs Revising; Tending Garden and Health — Raso Responds; Curing Homeopathy; Satire — A Powerful Weapon; Sloppy Thinking Media
- Forum Challenge
- Who Really Discovered Punctuated Equilibrium? A Skeptical Critique of Stephen Jay Gould, by Bruce Sobol; The Mismeasure of Gould — On the Perils of Striking Out, by Michael Shermer
- Pseudohistory forum
- Revising the Founding Fathers; Afrocentric Skepticism or Credulity?; Holocaust Poll Still Distorted; The Greeks Stole Philosophy?; Plane Crashes and Gas Chambers; The John Birch Society & Holocaust Revisionists — Common Methods & Mistakes; Greetings from the Aryan Nations; Speaking Volumes About Revisionism; Don’t Forget the Gypsies
Reviews
- The Fall of The Soviet Union & the Changing Game of Biblical Prophecy
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Hal Lindsey’s “Planet Earth — 2000 A.D.: Will Mankind Survive?”
- Culture Wars
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Skeptics, Parapsychologists & New Agers — Has the “good guys v. bad guys” rhetoric hindered the quest for truth? A review of Science in the New Age, by David Hess
Books in Brief
- Skeptoon: An Illustrated Look at Some New Age Beliefs; and Magic Minds, Miraculous Moments, by Harry Edwards; How To Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, by Theodore Schick, and Lewis Vaughn; Telling the Truth About History, by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob; Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by its Most Brilliant Teacher, recordings of Richard Feynman in the Classroom; The Pleasures and Perils of Genius: Mostly Mozart, ed. by Peter Ostwald and Leonard Zegans; Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind Star Trek, by Joel Engel; Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, by Carl Sagan
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