Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, volume 4 number 2:
Table of Contents
Articles
- ‘Twas Brillig…
- Save Fuel, the Nation, the Environment, Money … Sure
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Whose is the
Higher Superstition? -
Reflections on the Need for Skeptical Open-Mindedness
in the Days to Come - Cosmythology
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Was the Universe
Designed to Produce Us? -
The Question All
Skeptics are Asking - What Was Adam’s IQ?
Reviews
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Psychotherapeutic
Witch Hunting - Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt, by Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker; Satanic Ritual Abuse: Principles of Treatment, by Colin Ross, M.D.
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Leaps of Logic
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Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles,and the Search for Supernatural Consolation, by Nicholas Humphrey
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Mother Not So Superior
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The Missionary Position — Mother Teresa In Theory and Practice, by Christopher Hitchens
Books in Brief
- How Could You Do That?!: The Abdication of Character, Courage, and Conscience, by Laura Schlessinger; Issues in Evolutionary Ethics, edited by Paul Thompson; Narrow Roads of Gene Land,Volume 1: Evolution of Social Behaviour, by W. D. Hamilton; The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics, by Paul Lawrence Farber; Emotions in Command: A Naturalistic Study of Institutional Dominance, by Frank Kemp Salter; The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution, by John Brockman; Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, by James W. Loewen; The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan; The Unconscious Quantum: Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology, by Victor J. Stenger; Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology, by Kenneth L. Feder; The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal, edited by Gordon Stein; Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History, by Mary Lefkowitz; They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal, by Paula J. Caplan; Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth, by Burton L. Mack
News
- Skeptics Society 1996 Conference: A Huge Success
- Publishing Controversy
- Gathering for Gardner II
- Skeptics Walk on Fire For Bill Nye “the Science Guy.” Deconstruction Self-Destructs; Another National Skeptics Group; Attention Chicago Skeptics; Bad Writing Contest; Deaths in Major Sect; The Mysterious (and Profitable) Origins of Man; Millennium Mystery or Misinformation?
- Patterson Bigfoot Hoax; Gallup Poll Results: Hell/Devil Gainers, Science/Rationality Losers; Edgar Mitchell’s Carefully Omissive Interview
- Iron Butterfly Band Member Disappears After Working on Faster Than Light Communication. Is He In A Godda Da Vida?
Special Section:
Evolutionary Ethics
& Secular Morality
- Interview: Living Within Limits & Limits on Living
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Garrett Hardin on Ecology, Economy, and Ethics
- Toward a Science of Morality
- In Our Own Self Image
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The Evolution of Morality, Deception, and Religion
- Prospects for Existence
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Morality and Genetic Engineering
- Plants, Property & People
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Should Indigenous Peoples Be Compensated For Their Medicinal Plant Knowledge?
- The Secular Sphinx
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The Riddle of Ethics Without Religion
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Why Creationists
Fear Evolution -
An Introduction to
Bryan’s Last Speech - The Most Powerful Argument Against Evolution Ever Made
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The Undelivered Speech to
the Jury in the Scopes’ Trial
Forum
- Hollywood Skepticism; A “Spiritual “Experience; Never Been So Edified; Tipler Has Had It; Replace God — With What?; Replace God — With Nothing; Breasts Are For Babies Not Men; Breasts and Brains; What Women See in Men; Two Confusions — Daniel Dennett Responds; The E-Word; Gish Overrated, But Useful; Creationists Drown in Flood; The I.Q. Toll; Gould Against Affirmative Action?; The Thin Veneer of Civility; Hartung and Chait Are Both Right … and Wrong; Hartung Misinformed; Constructive Revisionism; In the Name of God, Nazi Style; Spinoza’s Stone; Leave God to the Philosophers; Velikovsky’s Place Clarified; Scientific Facelift; Shame on Skeptic; Why Hide Church Secrets?; Jacobsen Responds to Scientology; Miss Blood Speaks; No Liberal Conspiracy; Say What? Miele Replies
- Dr. Tipler ≠ Dr. Asimov
- Or How I Learned to Love the Second Law of Thermodynamics
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