Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, volume 4 number 3:
Table of Contents
Articles
- ‘Twas Brillig…
- 20 Questions Revisited, or, How the Slick Police Psychics Fool the Bumbling Cops
- The End of Science
- Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age
- Dreams of the End of Science
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It is the End of the Beginning
for Science, Not the Beginning
of the End - Heretic-Personality
- Alfred Russel Wallace and the Nature of Heretical Science
- Freud’s Follies
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Psychoanalysis as Religion,
Cult, and Political Movement -
Testing the Claims
of Mesmerism - The First Scientific Investigation of the Paranormal Ever Conducted, Commissioned by King Louis XVI
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The Question All
Skeptics are Asking - What Will Tomorrow Bring?
Books in Brief
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Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin,
by Stephen Jay Gould; Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, by Michael J. Behe; The Night is Large: Collected Essays, by Martin Gardner; In Search of the Light: The Adventures of a Para-psychologist, by Susan Blackmore; Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, by Paul Edwards;
The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy, by Charles Officer and Jake Page; Feet of Clay: Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus, by Anthony Storr; Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness, by Daniel C. Dennett; How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now, by William H. Calvin; Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past, by Daniel L. Schacter - Audio Tapes
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The World of Philosophy.
University Press Audiobooks.
News
- More Recognition for Skeptics’ website; Caltech Ranks #1; Conspiracy of Racism Nonexistent in Church Fires; Skeptics European Rep; Quantum Quackery; Psychic Math; Seancegate; Life on Mars: Should We Be Skeptical?; UFO Fragment Fake?; Man Jailed in Repressed Memory Case is Finally Free; Murder Plot Tied to UFOs; Computer Confessions; Evolution-Deniers Defeated; Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Secret Book Revealed on Internet; The Quadro Drama Continues; Whatever Happened to Madalyn Murray O’Hair?; Publisher’s New Age Gold
- Dumbth News
- Celebrate Crime; Cheap Husband; Phallic Symbols; The Dog Made Me Do It; Sorry Don Vicente; Don’t Forget to Write; What’s in a Name?
Special Section:
Conspiracy!
- Farrakhanspiracy
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Louis Farrakhan and the Paranoid Style in African-American Politics
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The End of the World
& the New World Order -
Black Helicopters, Hong Kong Gurkhas, Global Conspiracies,
and The Mark of the Beast - The Great Political Correctness Conspiracy Hoax
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Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thought Police
- Interview: Jerry Brown
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We the People? On Money, Politics, and Who Really Runs America
Forum
- Giants, Floods, & Footprints; McIver Missed the Ark; McIver Responds; Just the Way Folks Is; Learning is Wildcard of Behavior; Anthropology ≠ Ethics; Why Shouldness, Not How Should — Irons Responds; Indigenous People Obligated; Oubré Responds; Balls & Curves; Freedom Within Determinism; That’s the Way the Ball Bounces — Hartung Responds; Bad Science For Generation X; Velikovskian Wishful Thinking; A Tail by Any Other Name; Is Radar Just Another “Interpretation” of the World?; Olson Responds; The Leikind Principle Problem; SAP’s the Problem — Leikind Responds; Bryan Inconsistency; Abortion Issue Fraught With Difficulties; Utilitarian Bats and Balls; English Professors Powerless; Coercing Coercion; Skepticism a Christian Virtue; Nonscience v. Protoscience; Religious v. Secular Wars; A Witch Story
Reviews
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Movie Reviews
Extraterrestrial Hollywood -
Aliens; Independence Day; Phenomenon
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Book Review
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The Bell Curve Cracks — Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth,, by Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martin Sanchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss
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