Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 10 Number 3
Table of Contents
Articles
- ’Twas Brillig…
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The Oregon No-Vortex
- Demon Haunted Times
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Parents Complain:
Harry Geller Ban Out of Control
- Blame it on the Jews
- Anti-Semitism and the History of Jewish Conspiracy Theories
Evolution & Design Section
- A Devil’s Chaplin
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Towards a Theology
of Evolution? - Humans were inevitable on Earth, but are we alone in the cosmos?
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Inevitable Humans?
Or Hidden Agendas? - A review of Life’s Solutions: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe by Simon Conway Morris.
- Unmasking Darwin’s Cathedral
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It’s Not Just About Religion. A review of Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion & The Nature of Society, by David Sloan Wilson
- Is God in the Equations?
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A review of The Emergence of Everything by Harold J. Morowitz
Junior Skeptic
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The Bermuda Triangle
- What Is the Bermuda Triangle?; What’s the Case For the Triangle? (Classic cases; Wild Theories!: A Closer Look!); Why Things Really Disappear in the Triangle.
- The Vanishing Dollar Bill
News
- New Resource Guide for Debunking Astronomical Pseudoscience; Infrasound as a Possible Source of Sensations of the Paranormal; Cell Phones and Ghosts; Biologists Produce Position Statement on Alternative Medicine, by L.A. Chotkowski, M.D., F.A.C.P.
- Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded
- The Big “Bright” Brouhaha
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An Empirical Study on an
Emerging Skeptical Movement
Reviews
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Belief & the Nature
of the Divine -
A review of Beyond Belief:
The Secret Gospel of Thomas,
by Elaine Pagels.
Forum
- Letters
- “Time Travel”Fictions: Andrew Bernardin Responds to Critics; Roswell Aliens Not Anthropomorphic Dummies (But Not Aliens Either); More Lost Discoveries Nonsense; From Christian to Skeptic; From Muslim to Skeptic
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Is the Universe Acausal,
and Does God Exist? - The Nostradamus of Comics!
- Or the “Byrne Curse”
- The Science of Stephen Wolfram Forum
Evolution & Creationism
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Creationism’s
Expanding Universe -
Linguistics may be the fundamentalist’s backdoor into the public education system
- Macroevolution & Microcreationism
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Another flaw in Intelligent Design Creationism…
- Wiccans v. Creationists
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An Empirical Study of How Two Systems of Belief Differ
- Who Made It?
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The Isaac Newton Orrery Story: Another Mythic Tale Misused by Creationists
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Top 10 Myths About Evolution (and how we know it really happened)
This concise pamphlet provides answers to common objections to evolution, such as: If humans came from apes, why aren’t apes evolving into humans?; Only an intelligent designer could have made something as complex as an eye; The second law of thermo-dynamics proves that evolution is impossible; Evolution can’t account for morality; and more…
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Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alternative Medicine
Harriet Hall, MD (aka the SkepDoc), shares her wit and wisdom about alternative medicine including: chiropractic, the placebo effect, homeopathy, acupuncture, and the questionable benefits of organic food, detoxification, and ‘natural’ remedies.
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Learn to be a Psychic in 10
Easy Lessons
Psychic readings and fortunetelling are an ancient art — a combination of acting and psychological manipulation. While some psychics are known to cheat and acquire information ahead of time, these ten tips focus on what is known as “cold reading” — reading someone “cold” without any prior knowledge about them.