Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking

Cover Story

Mythbusters Exposed

How a Special Effects Crew Opened the Most Important New Front in the Battle for Science Literacy
by Daniel Loxton

Features

’Twas Brillig…

On the Soapbox: Tom Cruise; Sylvia Browne Talks to the Animals (on the other side); Creationism at the Tulsa Zoo; Cellular Quackery
by James Randi

News

Mind, Brain, & Consciousness

The Skeptics Society 2005 Conference
by Lee Traynor

A Skeptic Goes to
an Exorcism

by Lee Traynor

The Woodstock of Evolution

The World Summit on Evolution, held in the Galápagos Islands, revealed a science rich in history and tradition, data and theory, as well as controversy and debate.
by Michael Shermer

Forum

Skeptical Opinions

INTERNET CONSPIRACIES
Where the Absence of Evidence is Confirmation of the Claim.
by Brian K. Pinaire

Letters

An Argument Against Bigfoot; Required Blind, Double Good; Animal Subjects and Double Blind Studies; Not Skeptical Enough; Collapse Collapses on the Evidence; If “Mind” is a Myth, What About “Person”?; Why Derrida Matters; Do African Americans See Black or White Aliens?; The Truth is Out There … About 9/11

Cholesterol Forum

Cholesterol Skepticism; Disease Kills Kids, Not Cholesterol; Cholesterol Constraints

Shakespeare Authorship Forum

How Do We Know Shakespeare? Let Me Count the Ways; The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Question; Shakespeare in the World.

Special Section:
Evolutionary Psychology

Sex, Jealousy & Violence

A Skeptical Look at
Evolutionary Psychology
by David J. Buller

Evolutionary Psychology
is Here to Stay

A Response to Buller
by Frank Miele

Articles

Doubting Dr. Dino

Kent Hovind’s $250,000
Challenge Met
by Adam Kisby

Enigma

The Faustian Bargain of
David Irving by Michael Shermer

Ezekiel’s Spaceships

by Tim Callahan

What Biased Media?

The Right, Left, and Center of
the American Press
by George Case

Reviews

Design Inc.

A review of Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?
by Michael Ruse.
reviewed by Michael Shermer

Elementary Evolution

Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution by Steve Jenkins.reviewed by Susan Haines

God the Father

The Psychological Roots of Religious Belief: Searching for Angels and the Parent-God by M.D. Faber.reviewed by Kenneth W. Krause

What the Numbers
Can Reveal

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.reviewed by Michael Shermer

The Big Bang’s Steady State

Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle’s Life in Science by Simon Mitton.reviewed by James N. Gardner

The Evolution of Literature

The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative. Edited by Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson.reviewed by David Michelson

The Pentagon’s Psychic Friend’s Network

The Men Who Stare at Goats
by Jon Ronson. reviewed by Michael Shermer

What Evolution Isn’t:
Five reviews by Lee Traynor

What Darwin Didn’t Know
by Geoffery Simmons
The Case for a Creator
by Lee Strobel
Origins of Life
by Fazale Rana and Hugh Ross
The Design Revolution
by William A. Dembski
Uncommon Dissent
Edited by William Dembski
reviews by Lee Traynor