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Reinventing Evolution: 450 Attend the Skeptics Society’s 1999 Convention at Caltech
From Moses to Memes: Caltech Skeptics’ Lectures Draw Huge Audiences
: World War Three To Start in July Says Nostradamus; Professors’ Predictions (and Failure Excuses) as Bad as Psychics; Laundry Balls Outlawed; Illinois Cracks Down on Satanic Ritual Abuse Psychiatrist
Cult Update
: Evolution “Just a Theory” in Nebraska; Authors Defend Evolution Teaching; Flat Earths and POSH Theories

A Book, A Life and A Goddess: The Hidden Book in the Bible by Richard Elliot Friedman, Moses: A Life, by Jonathan Kirsch, and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, by Leonard Shlain
reviewed by Tim Callahan
Square Pegs & Round Holes: An Evaluation of the Science in The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom, by Gerald L. Schroeder
reviewed by Peter B. Weichman
Sacred Science: A review of The Scared Depths of Nature, by Ursula Goodenough
reviewed by Chet Raymo

: Skeptics are Powerful; In Defense of Philosophy; The Skeptical Approach; Sociobiology ≠ Evolutionary Psychology; Great Pyramid Was a Power Plant; Cold Fusion Still Hot; Gould v. Huxley Agnosticism
Deconstructing JFK: The Assassination Debate Continues: Gerlich’s JFK Mind is Closed; Gerlich Responds; Bang! Bang! Bang! Run!!; Fractal JFK
The Great Psychotherapy Debate Continues: In Defense of Psychotherapy; Tana Dineen Responds To Jeffrey Tarrant
Skeptics Respond to Creationists: Natural Selection; Symbiosis and Gene Duplication

‘Twas Brillig…: Pigasus Flies Again: The Third Annual Pigasus Awards from the James Randi Educational Foundation
by James Randi
Dumbth News from This is True: The Skeptics Society
Annual Dumbth Awards
by Randy Cassingham
Educashun: Cutting Edge
by Steven T. Asma
Is Anybody Out There?: by Daryl Lease
They Never Said It!: Freethinkers, Fundamentalists,
and Fake Quotes
by John George
How To Evaluate New Medical Discoveries: by Harry K. Ziel, M.D.
De-Population Myths: How Many People Really Lived in the Americas Before the European Conquest?
by David Henige

How Close Are We to Cloning Time?: An Introduction to the Science
and Ethics of Human Cloning
by Frank Miele
The Man Who Would Be Cloned: An interview with Dr. Richard Seed Director of the Human Cloning Project
by Frank Miele
Only God Can Do That?: Cloning and Genetic Engineering Test the Moral Limits of Science
by Michael Shermer
The “Information Challenge”: How Evolution Increases Information in the Genome
by Richard Dawkins
Group Selection & the Origins of Evil: by Nicholas S. Thompson
Theology & Evolutionary Psychology: An Historical Perspective
on a Very Old Problem
by Kari Konkola and Glenn Sunshine

Urban Legends: What’s an Urban Legend & How to Spot Them; Have you Fallen for Any of These Urban Legends?; How and Why Urban Legends Change; Fake warnings; Cow tipping; Urban Legends Slang; A True Story Behind a Legend; Use Your Understanding of Urban Legends to Improve your Storytelling Ability
by Pat Linse, Tom McDonough, Amanda Chesworth, Andrew Harter and Jaime Botero
The Madman of Magic: Meeting Steven Hawking and The Hawking Expanding Universe Trick
by Bob Friedhoffer