Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking

Cover Story

The Future of Intelligence:

Are People Getting
Smarter or Dumber?

by Robert Ehlich

Why Smart People
Believe Weird Things

by Michael Shermer

Special In-Depth Report

Divine Secrets of
the Ya-Ya Universe

Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science – or a Not-So-New Kind of Computer Program?
by David Naiditch

Articles

’Twas Brillig…

Homeopathy, the French, Psychic Dreams, Testing Astrology & Numerology
by James Randi

Demon Haunted Times

Southern Bigfoot Convention
Draws Criticism
by Brandon Muller

Great Balls of Mystery!

Is the slow rotation of this massive granite ball paranormal or normal?
by Reza Saberi

Reviews

Pious Fantasies

A review of Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science — from the Babylonians to the Maya, by Dick Teresi
reviewed by Norman Levitt

The Ghost of God

A review of The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science, by Taner Edisn reviewed by Ronald Ebert

From Scripture
to Space Oddity

A review of Bible Code II: The Countdown , by Michael Drosnin
reviewed by Tim Callahan

Deus ex Machinas, Shamanism, and Gonzo Science for the Digiterati

A review of Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality, by John Horgan. reviewed by Thomas Patton

News

Roswell Holiday; Silver Fleece Awards; Steves Endorse Evolution

Dead Silence

Attending A “Live”
John Edward Seminar
by Brady J. Phelps, Elizabeth C. Wogen, and Scott C. Pedersen

What’s the Harm?

When Psychic Mediums
Serve as Grief Counselors
by Russel P. Freedman

Psychic Dodge Ball

The Sylvia Browne Chronology
by Russel P. Freedman

Special Section

Science & the Media:

Can the Media Help Science?

by Henry N. Pollack

Mind Over Media

How the News Legitimized the Paranormal and Why it Matters by Shari Waxman

Junior Skeptic

Mount Everest &
the Savage Yeti!
written and illustrated
by Daniel Loxton

The English In Nepal; Naming Everest; The First Tracks!; What’s In a Name; The 1933 Flyover; A Nazi versus the Yeti; The Shipton Prints; Footprint Science; Legacy at the Top of the World; The Search for the Yeti; Scalps & Relics; The Hillary Expedition; International Yeti; The Quest of Reinhold Messner; Is the Mystery Solved?; Face off with a Grizzly

The Call of the Yeti

by Bob Friedhoffer

Forum

Can Science Explain
the Jesus Miracle?

Science,the Resurrection, and the Ludicrous Leap; Persinger’s Passover Plot; Persinger’s Swoon Theory; Resurrection Poppycock; Skeptical of Persinger’s Skepticism; Persinger Responds to Tobin Crenshaw, Jeremy Genovese, Bradley Bowen, Jerry Kahn, and John Caporale

Time Travel Section

Time Traveling with Oedipus Rex; Skeptical of the Time Travel Skeptics; Michael Shermer’s “The Chronology Projector Conjecture;” Ted Dace’s “Days of the Future Past;” Andrew Bernardin’s “Einstein, Batman and the Surfer”

Letters

Rupert is Wrong; Rupert is Right; More “Open Mind” Quotes; Thought, Intuition, and Relativity; Sharpening Ockham’s Razor

How I Reluctantly
Became a Skeptic

by Susan Kawa