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Skeptic Magazine, Volume 9 Number 4
Table of Contents

Articles

’Twas Brillig…
Medical Quackery Down Under; Think of a Card; A Step in the Right Direction; Raining on Art Bell’s Parade; MEG Takes a Fall
by James Randi
French Follies
A 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Turns Out to be an Appalling Deception.
A review of the French best seller L’Effroyable Imposture,
by Thierry Meyssan
reviewed by L. Kirk Hagen
The Power of Coincidence
by David G. Myers
Two Shakespeares
A skeptical analysis of Shakespeare & his works reveals the real author
by Scott McCrea
What Do We Do
About Creationism?
Suggestions About How
to Change Peoples Minds
by Massimo Pigliucci

Reviews

101 Reasons to Dig Deeper
A review of 101 Myths of the Bible: How Ancient Scribes Invented Biblical History, by Gary Greenber
reviewed by Tim Callahan
A Late Defense
A review of Paul on Trial: The Book of Acts as a Defense of Christianity, by John W. Mauck. Foreword by Donald A. Hagner reviewed by Tim Callahan
Vanquished, but not Gone
A review of The Vanquished Gods: Science, Religion, and the Nature of Belief, by Richard H. Schlagel
reviewed by Tim Callahan
Plus Ça Change,
Plus C’est la Même Chose
A review of Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay reviewed by Liam McDaid

Cover Story

Remembering
Stephen Jay Gould
Farwell Fossilface: A Memoir of Stephen Jay Gould
by Richard Milner
This View of Science:
Stephen Jay Gould as Historian of Science and Scientific Historian
by Michael Shermer

News

Paranormal Brain Chemistry
Paranormal Beliefs Linked to Brain Chemistry; Belief in Pseudoscience and the Paranormal Widespread
To Be or Not to Be a Weasel
How Evolution Works edited by Michael Shermer; letters from Sally Morem, Dennis Junk, Phil Molé, John Ståhle, Jack Sheldon, Ric Carter, Lawrence Chia, Phil Coffman, and Bryce M. Hand by Daniel Loxton

Special Section:
Explaining Miracles

Science & the Resurrection
Christ’s Alleged Resurrection — Experimental Evidence for an Alternative Hypothesis to Being Raised from the Dead by God by Michael A. Persinger
Parting Seas, Magic Stars
& Miracles
Can science explain
events in the bible? by Bruce Martin Wildish

Forum

On the Fringes of Credibility
Science and Skepticism; The Qualitative and the Quantitative; Digging for Meaning on the Fringes of Credibility
Hydro Theory Defended
Krell Machine — A Substitute for Religious Yearnings?; Correction; Who Designed the Designer?
Cognitive Catastrophes, Sheldrake Defends His Theory
I Think Therefore I Deduce; Heads I Win, Tails You Lose; Molé Replies; Rupert Sheldrake says Formative Causation Testable
Creationism; Black Confederates

Junior Skeptic

Sea Monsters
written and illustrated
by Daniel Loxton
Sea serpent Legends; Fossil Sea Monsters; Real Sea Monsters Alive Today; North American and European Monsters; Who Invented Caddy?; Cryptozoology; Best Evidence for a Real Caddy; The Psychology of Seeing; What Would Be True if Caddy Existed?

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