Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 11 Number 4
Table of Contents
Features
- ’Twas Brillig…
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John of God: ABC’s Primetime Live Special About A Brazilian “Healer” Falls Far Short of Investigative Journalism
- Demon Haunted Times
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God Offers Human Race on eBay
Junior Skeptic
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Six Slick Tricks
& the Science Behind Them -
The Antigravity Tube
The Dissolving Coin
The Mystical Marble
How To Force A Card
Will the Stars Match?
The Obedient Wand
News
- The Da Vinci Code Cult
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A Critical Look at Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code
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Ernst Mayr Tribute:
1904–2005 -
Gender Differences
& the 80-Hour Work Week - Testing Prayer
- Darwin & Design Conference
- Philosopher Jacques Derrida 1930–2004
Forum
- Letters
- Collapse Predicted in 1974; Hormone Replacement Myths and The Real Truth About Cholesterol; Intelligent Design and Polytheism
- Race & Sex
- Race and Race Differences are Real; Sarich and Miele Respond to Lemme
- Science & the Bush Administration
- Neutral letters; Positive letters; Negative Letters; Krider Responds
- Nature-Nurture Forum
- Blind Men with An Elephant: Nature and Nurture Revisited As Blank Snakes; Genetic Preparedness Does Not Equal Genetic Determinism; Nurturing Nature; The Triplets of Nature and Nurture
Special Section
- The Dream World of William Dembski’s Creationism
- Creationism’s Holy Grail
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The Intelligent Design of a Peer-Reviewed Paper
Articles
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Close Encounters of
the Facial Kind -
Are UFO Alien Faces an Inborn Facial Recognition Template?
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Tilting Pictures
& Fruitless Pursuits -
How to Test for A Supernatural Occurrence
- The Truth Is Out There … Way Out There
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Three Major Patterns of Conspiratorial Thinking
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How the Human
Got its Mind -
Debunking the Last Great Myth
in Psychology
Reviews
- Required Reading
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The Skeptic’s Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions & Dangerous Delusions by Robert Todd.
- Super Size This!
- The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos.
- Faith, Facts & the Resurrection of Jesus
- The Resurrection of the Son of God by N. T. Wright.
- The Key to the Universe
- The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose.
- In the Blink of An Eye
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell.
- The Gods Must Be Crazy
- Inventing Superstition: From the Hippocratics to the Christians by Dale B. Martin.
- When Death Comes Knockin’
- Who Ya Gonna Call? Facing Death: Epicurus and His Critics by James Warren.
- Seek & Ye Shall Find
- The God Code: The Secret of Our Past, the Promise of Our Future by Gregg Braden.
- The Great Race Debate
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The Reality of Human Differences by Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele.
Review I:
Race: No Such Thing
… or is There? Review II:
The Adaptionist Yardstick
Rethinking the Social Implications of Sarich’s and Miele’s Fast-Track Micro-Evolution.
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