Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, volume 5 number 4:
Table of Contents
Articles
- ’Twas Brillig…
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Applied Kinesiology & Bell Labs:
The Embrace of Nonsense by the Otherwise Well-Informed
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Dumbth News from
This is True - November in Dallas
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Thoughts on the JFK
Assassination Conference
- Roswell: An Insiders Report
Special Section:
Pseudoscience
- Acupuncture’s Secrets Revealed
- From Cult of QI to Evidence-Based Acupuncture
- A Not-So-Psychic Detective
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A Case Study of Noreen Renier’s Latest and Greatest “Success” Story
- The Myth of Egyptian Pi (π)
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Did Archimedes Steal Pi?
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When the Mermaid
Came to Charleston - What’s Your Sign?
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Astrology: What’s Really
in the Stars?
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In Search of the
Chinese Fountain of Youth -
Sex and Immortality
- The Belief Module
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How We Came to Believe in Magic
Forum
- Shame on You; Can You Top This?; Beautiful People Park; Don’t Dismiss All Conspiracies; More on Militias
- The God Question Revisited
- Refreshing and Intriguing; Fake Quotes; Thanks for Leikind’s Article; The Burden of the Proof; Science Works, Proofs of God Don’t; Proofs of God are Plausible; God and Secular Religions; Praise for the Middle Ground; Gardner’s God; God Exists in Zero Time; Imbecilic Irony; Another Creationist Fallacy; The Fossils Still Say Yes!; Religion is More Than a Meme
News
- Psychic Predictions for 1998
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Skeptical Oracles Predict … Home Alien Abduction Kit; HMO Execs Believe Prayer Aids Healing; Florida’s Virgin Mary Still Draws the Faithful
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Thank You:
Skeptics Fund Raising
Drive a Success - Biblical Humor; Firing Line Debate Resolved: Evolutionists Should Acknowledge Creation; Weird Things Makes “Top 100” Books of 1997, Also Up for National Book Critics Award; Alternative Therapies Increase in Canada; Signs of the Times; Mass Suicide Feared in Dallas; New U.K. Skeptics Group; Inside the Scientology/IRS Battle; Scientology’s Mysterious Death; South American Aliens Have Olive Skin; 60 Minutes Exposes False Memory Disaster; Creating Crazy; Psychotherapy on Trial; Nobelists Challenge Science Standards; Skeptics Society Supports Amicus Brief v. Creationism; Archeologist Says Turin Shroud is No Fake; The God Module; The Astronomer’s Wizard; The Death of Big Foot; Remote Viewer Ed Dames Says Sun will Explode in 1998; Miracle Laundry Ball Soaks Suckers; Simpsons Debunks Angels; Acupuncture Works Says NIH Panel
Reviews
- Tabloid Journalism
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Grossed Out Surgeon Vomits Inside Patient! An Insider’s Look at Supermarket Tabloids by Jim Hogshire
- Is This Your Card?
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Penn & Teller’s How to
Play in Traffic
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IQ in Review: Getting at
the Hyphen in the Nature-Nurture Debate -
Intelligence and Social Policy, a special issue of the journal Intelligence, edited by L. Gottfredson; The Scientific Study of Human Nature: A Tribute to Hans Eysenck at Eight, edited by H. Nyborg; Uniting Psychology and Biology: Integrative Perspectives on Human Development, edited by N. Segal, G. Weisfeld and C. Weisfeld; Intelligence, Heredity, and Environment, edited by R. Sternberg and E Grigorenko; Intelligence and Lifelong Learning, a special issue of the journal American Psychologist, guest edited by R. Sternberg
Books in Brief
- The Best of Annals of Improbable Research, edited by Marc Abrahams; Dr. Strangelove’s America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age, by Margot Henriksen; A Glorious Accident: Understanding Our Place in the Cosmic Puzzle, by Wim Kayzer; The Life of the Cosmos, by Lee Smolin; Would-Be Worlds: How Simulation is Changing the Frontiers of Science, by John L. Casti; A Bedside Nature: Genius and Eccentricity in Science 1869–1953, edited by Walter Gratzer; Beyond Star Trek: Physics from Alien Invasions to the End of Time, by Lawrence M. Krauss; The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and its Implications, by David Deutsch; The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain, by Terrence Deacon; How the Mind Works, by Steven Pinker; Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind, by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen; Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others, by Martin Rees; The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds, by Lowell Dingus and Timothy Rowe; Immortality, edited by Paul Edwards; Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds, by Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini
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