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‘Twas Brillig…: Uri Geller & the Moving Compass Trick; Also: So Long Doug
by James Randi
For Entertainment Purposes Only: Why aren’t there more
women in skepticism?
by Sheila Gibson
Dumbth News from This is True: by Randy Cassingham
Educashun: Deconstruct This!
by Steven T. Asma
The Heat of the Soul: Thermodynamics and the Mind/Body Problem
by William E. Lee III
The Grand Old Man of Evolution: An Interview with Evolutionary Biologist Ernst Mayr
by Michael Shermer
and Frank J. Sulloway
Nonzero & Nonsense: Group Selection, Nonzerosumness, and the Human Gaia Hypothesis
by David Sloan Wilson

Chicken Soup for the Evolutionist’s Soul: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, by Robert Wright
reviewed by Michael Shermer
Watching the Watchdogs: The Watchdogs: A Close Look at Anti-Racist “Watchdog” Groups,
by Laird Wilcox
reviewed by Frank Miele
Hocus-Pocus History: What if FDR Knew About Pearl Harbor?: Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, by Robert B. Stinnett
reviewed by Richard Morrock

Darwin: How the History of Life Was Discovered, part one: by Pat Linse, cover illustration by Tim Callahan
The Madman of Magic: Magic Galapagos Island Snake Eggs; Darwin’s Invisible Mouse
by Bob Friedhoffer

E-Scams: Too Good To Be True: by Nick Gerlich
Lectures at Caltech: Boo!; The Mars Man; A History of Heaven — Dante to the Internet; Urban Legends: Too Good to Be True
World Famous Museum of Questionable Medical Devices: Americans Continue to Doubt Evolution; The Changing Religious Landscape; The 2000 Gallup & Barna Polls; Virgin Ice Cream; Noah’s Flood in the Black Sea?
Cult Mass Suicide/Homicide: Jonesboro/Heaven’s Gate Replay?
by J. Gordon Melton
: ABC Pays Damages to Psychic Network; Recovered or False Memories?

Race & Sports: Jon Entine’s Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About it
by Frank Miele
Breaking the Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re No Longer So Afraid to Talk About it
by Jon Entine
Totem & Taboo: The Myth of Race in Sports
by John Hoberman
The Final Taboo: Race Differences in Ability
by Vincent Sarich
Blood, Sweat & Fears: Why Some Black Athletes Dominate Some Sports and What it Really Means
by Michael Shermer

: The Whole World Isn’t Crazy; Reading Between the Biblical Lines; Former Sai Baba Member Speaks Out; Judaism as Group Selection; Three Brains Not Better Than One; Sagan, Randi, and Mary Jane; Christian Science is Metaphysics Not Quantum Physics; For Whom Bell’s Theorem Tolls; XXX-Files; ESP and PSA; Genetic v. Social Engineering; Keep an Open Mind on the Great Pyramid as a Power Plant
Thought Field Therapy Debate: Thinking Through Thought Therapy; Ear Today, Gone Tomorrow; Callahan replies to Swenson