Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, volume 11 number 2:
Table of Contents
Features
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‘Twas Brillig…
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The Wizards of Oz: Skeptics at the Observatoire Zététique Conduct an Exemplar Investigation
by James Randi
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Demon Haunted Times
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Alien Committee Pulls Plug
on Abduction Research
by Brandon Muller
Articles
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The Tea Leaves of Sports Talk
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Finding Meaning
in Random Sequences
by Andrew Bernardin
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Confessions of a Former Alternative Health Journalist
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by Clare Bowerman
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Who Lost the Middle Ages?
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What’s Behind the Attempt to Impose A “New Chronology”
on History?
by Jason Colavito
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Spirit Photography
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How Early Spiritualists Tried
to Save Religion by Using Science
by Paul Firenze
Forum
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Letters
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Dogon Mystery Still Unsolved; Liam McDaid Responds; God Not Disproven by Science; Science Literacy v. Scientific Reasoning Ability; Diagnosing Role Models.
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Evolution/Creation
Issues Forum
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The Reason Creationism Won’t Go Away; Fair and Biased; Paul Gross Replies; Evolutionists are Politically Left of Center; L. Kirk Hagen and Lisa Morano Respond; Towards a Theology of Evolution?
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Environmental Issues Forum
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A Whale of a Sound; Jennifer Jacquet Responds; Pesticides and Cancer: The Dialogue Continues
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Low Carb Diet Forum
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A Response to the Criticisms of
The Skinny on Fat by Patrick Johnson: The Skinny on Cholesterol
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Cryonics Forum
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Cryonics Revived:
Vitrification Unjustly Vilified
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A Frozen Future?
Cryonics as a Gamble
by Gregory Benford
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Historical Jesus Forum
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Who Killed Jesus?
Tim Callahan Replies
On the Cover
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Cover art by Pat Linse, Art Director for Skeptic magazine. Inspired by the art of Australian Aborigines.
Cover Stories
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The Almost Blank Slate
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Making a Case for Human Nurture
by Henry D. Schlinger
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The Revival of Human
Nature ≠ The Denial of Human Nurture
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Toward a Consilient Science
of Human Behavior
by Frank Miele
Reviews
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Dembski, Darwin & Devils
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A Review of three books:
The Design Revolution by William Dembski; God, the Devil & Darwin, by Niall Shanks; Darwinism, Design, & Public Education by John A. Campbell and Stephen Meyer.
reviewed by Jason Rosenhouse
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Intentional Deception: Intelligent Design’s
Wedge of Creationism
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A review of Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design, by Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross. reviewed by Bruce Grant
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Is There Really a 67% Probability that God Exists?
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A review of The Probability of God: A Simple Calculation That Proves The Ultimate Truth by Stephen D. Unwin. reviewed by Craig Waterman
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A Stunning Chronicle
of Unbelievers
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A review of Doubt: A History, by Jennifer Michael Hecht. reviewed by Tim Callahan
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Did Women’s Blood
Lead to Men’s Blood Lust?
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A review of Sex Time & Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Shlain. reviewed by Tim Callahan
Junior Skeptic
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Bigfoot Part One:
Dawn of Sasquatch
written and illustrated
by Daniel Loxton
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Ogres; Native Folklore and J. W.Burns— the Father of the Sasquatch; Native Eyewitnesses; The Legend Begins: A Star is Born; The Makeover: Sasquatch Becomes an Ape; Albert Ostman: Kidnapped; The Jacko Legend; The Bluff Creek Tracks: The Birth of Bigfoot; Ray Wallace; The Patterson Film; Bob Heironimus: The Man In the Suit.
