Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 8 Number 1
Table of Contents
Articles
- ’Twas Brillig…
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Uri Geller & the Moving Compass Trick; Also: So Long Doug
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For Entertainment
Purposes Only -
Why aren’t there more
women in skepticism?
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Dumbth News from
This is True - Educashun
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Deconstruct This!
- The Heat of the Soul
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Thermodynamics and the Mind/Body Problem
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The Grand Old Man
of Evolution -
An Interview with Evolutionary Biologist Ernst Mayr
- Nonzero & Nonsense
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Group Selection, Nonzerosumness, and the Human Gaia Hypothesis
Reviews
- Chicken Soup for the Evolutionist’s Soul
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, by Robert Wright
- Watching the Watchdogs
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The Watchdogs: A Close Look at Anti-Racist “Watchdog” Groups,
by Laird Wilcox
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Hocus-Pocus History:
What if FDR Knew About Pearl Harbor? -
Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, by Robert B. Stinnett
Junior Skeptic
- Darwin: How the History of Life Was Discovered, part one
- The Madman of Magic
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Magic Galapagos Island Snake Eggs; Darwin’s Invisible Mouse
News
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E-Scams: Too Good
To Be True - 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
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Jonesboro/Heaven’s Gate Replay?
- ABC Pays Damages to Psychic Network; Recovered or False Memories?
Special Section:
Race & Sports
- Race & Sports
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Jon Entine’s Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About it
- Breaking the Taboo
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Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re No Longer So Afraid to Talk About it
- Totem & Taboo
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The Myth of Race in Sports
- The Final Taboo
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Race Differences in Ability
- Blood, Sweat & Fears
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Why Some Black Athletes Dominate Some Sports and What it Really Means
Special Section:
Voodoo Science
- Perpetuum Mobile
- The Dream of Infinite Free Energy
- Attention Deficit Disorder
- Good Science or Good Marketing?
- Chiropractic
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Conventional or Alternative Healing?
Forum
- 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
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Thought Field
Therapy Debate - Thinking Through Thought Therapy; Ear Today, Gone Tomorrow; Callahan replies to Swenson
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Top 10 Myths About Evolution (and how we know it really happened)
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Learn to be a Psychic in 10
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