Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, volume 7 number 2:
Table of Contents
News
- 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
Reviews
- A Book, A Life and A Goddess
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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
- Square Pegs & Round Holes
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An Evaluation of the Science in The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom, by Gerald L. Schroeder
- Sacred Science
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A review of The Scared Depths of Nature, by Ursula Goodenough
Forum
- 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
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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
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Skeptics Respond
to Creationists - Natural Selection; Symbiosis and Gene Duplication
Articles
- ‘Twas Brillig…
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Pigasus Flies Again: The Third Annual Pigasus Awards from the James Randi Educational Foundation
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Dumbth News from
This is True -
The Skeptics Society
Annual Dumbth Awards
- Educashun
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Cutting Edge
- Is Anybody Out There?
- They Never Said It!
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Freethinkers, Fundamentalists,
and Fake Quotes
- How To Evaluate New Medical Discoveries
- De-Population Myths
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How Many People Really Lived in the Americas Before the European Conquest?
Special Section:
Cloning & Genetic Engineering
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How Close Are We
to Cloning Time? -
An Introduction to the Science
and Ethics of Human Cloning
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The Man Who
Would Be Cloned -
An interview with Dr. Richard Seed Director of the Human Cloning Project
- Only God Can Do That?
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Cloning and Genetic Engineering Test the Moral Limits of Science
- The “Information Challenge”
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How Evolution Increases Information in the Genome
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Group Selection &
the Origins of Evil -
Theology &
Evolutionary Psychology -
An Historical Perspective
on a Very Old Problem
Junior Skeptic
- Urban Legends
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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
- The Madman of Magic
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Meeting Steven Hawking and The Hawking Expanding Universe Trick
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