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Millennium Special: What is the Millennium? by Stephen Jay Gould
‘Twas Brillig…: Fairies, Frauds, & Fuss: Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Case of the Fake Fairy Photos
by James Randi
Dumbth News from This is True: by Randy Cassingham
The X-Files Meets Disneyland: UFOs are now as mainstream as apple pie: Aliens have replaced spooks in the carnival funhouse
by Tom McDonough
Conspiracies to Di For: by Nick Gerlich
Why Do Militias Exist?: With a Response from Militia Expert Richard Abanes by George Clark
The Solution is Not in the Solution: Homeopathy and The Office of Alternative Medicine by Leon Jaroff
Houdini v. the Blond Witch of Lime Street: An Historical Lesson in Skepticism by Massimo Polidoro

How Humans Explain Human Origins: The Bones, (Stones, and Dirty Stories) of Contention by Frank Miele
In Love With Lucy and All Her Relatives: An interview with Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson
by Frank Miele
Paradigms in Collision: Margaret Mead’s Mistake and
What it Has Done to Anthropology
by Derek Freeman
Indians & Archaeologists: Conflicting Views of
Myth and Science by Kenneth L. Feder
God & the Ghost Dance: Farrakhan, Wovoka, and Jesus:
The Eternal Return of the Messiah Myth
by Michael Shermer

Turning Our Hearts Toward Home: James Dobson’s War on America, by Gil Alexander-Moegerle
reviewed by Tim Callahan
A Book & its Cover: Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media, by Elaine Showalter
reviewed by David Bloomberg

: Psychics Fail to Predict Princess Di’s Death
Nostradamus and Di: Now They Tell Us! by James Randi
: Belief in Afterlife Increases—Atheists Less Than 1%; Canadians Believe in Miracles; Potato Miracle; Pat Robertson and UFOs; Prime Time Religion; Tape Reveals Real Mission of the Christian Coalition; Religion Book Sales Up 112%; Prime Time Religion; Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded; How To Become a Saint; 25th Anniversary of Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion; Bible Not Only Reason Students Reject Evolution; Prayer an Issue in Death; Parapsychology at UNLV; Cult Conference Controversy; The Skeptic’s Dictionary; Survey Reveals Intolerance Among Christian activists; Vanity Fair and Fairies; Banned by Rand; Mother Teresa Nun Bun Lives; IQ Pioneer and Psi Researcher Hans Eysenck Dies; Stimulation Simulator Sags; Moon Money; Candidate for Natural Selection Award; Hollywood Bigfoot Hoax; Dihydrogen Monoxide Ban—A Lesson in Critical Thinking; All the News Not Fit to Print.

Who Really “Discovered” America?: American Discovery: Our Multicultural Heritage, by Gunnar Thompson, and, The Friar’s Map of Ancient America. 1360 AD., by Gunnar Thompson
: Multiple Identities and False Memories: A Sociocognitive Perspective, by Nicholas P. Spanos; Carl Sagan’s Universe, edited by Yervant Terzian and Elizabeth Bilson; The Metaphysics of Star Trek, by Richard Hanley; Deception and Self-Deception: Investigating Psychics, by Richard Wiseman; Moral Judgment: Does the Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System?, by James Q. Wilson; The Alien IQ Test, by Clifford Pickover; Smiling Through Tears, by Pamela Freyd and Eleanor Goldstein
It’s a Darwinian World: Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory, by Niles Eldredge; This is Biology: The Science of the Living World, by Ernst Mayr; Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence, by George B. Dyson; Charles Darwin and the Evolution Revolution, by Rebecca Stefoff; Huxley: From Devil’s Disciple to Evolution’s High Priest, by Adrian Desmond; Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women, by Deborah Blum; Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds, by Phillip E. Johnson

: Skeptical Roses; Priorities; ACLU Needs Skepticism; Firewalking Burns Feet!; Scientology Reply to Steve Allen; PC Culture Wars; Global Warming & Population ; Fallacies in Environmentalism; Carbon Cycle Key to Environmental Changes; Franklin No Rosicrucian; Callahan Responds; Gardner Unfair to Korzybski; Martin Gardner Responds; Whatever Happened to Atheism? — It’s Alive and Well Thank You; Platonic Memes; Blackmore Responds; Gravity No Myth; Einstein’s God; McComas Responds; Let’s Hear From Some Theists; Thank You Tim Callahan; Apologies for Apologetics; Extraordinarily Disturbing; Pro-Corporate Propaganda; Is the Big Bang Necessary?