Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking

Cover Story

A.I. Gone Awry

The Futile Quest for
Artificial Intelligence.
by Peter Kassan

Special Section:
Intelligent Design

The Dover Decision

A stunning blow against Intelligent Design Creationism — How the Kitzmiller et al. versus Dover Area School District Trial Unfolded.
by Burt Humburg and Ed Brayton

The Illusion of Design

by Richard Dawkins

ID & SETI

Can Intelligent Design be Considered Scientific in the Same Way that SETI is? by Robert Camp

The Other Intelligent
Design Theories

Intelligent Design is only one of many “alternatives” to Darwinian evolution.
by David Brin

Forum

Letters

Intelligent Design and Hurricane Katrina; The Truth is Out There … About 9/11; The Mind’s Own Brain.

Death of Philosophy/
Derrida Forum

Derrida, Newton, Einstein, and Hawking; Demonizing Derrida and Deconstruction.

The Origin of Alien Faces

Examining Malmstrom’s Template: Exploring Other Options in Alien Face Experiences.
by Ben Witts and Jeff Buchanan

Cholesterol, Statins, and Mortality: A Skeptical Look; Deutsch Responds to Critics.

Doubting Dr. Dino’s
Doubter Forum

Hovind Doesn’t Understand Science; Garbage In, Garbage Out; Misapplying Set Theory To the World of Cause and Effect; God Cannot Be Either Proved or Disproved.

Articles

The Enigma of Coral Castle

by William Stansfield

Meeting the Man
with the Camera Brain
The Curious Case of Ted Serios

by Calvin Campbell

On the Cover

This issue’s cover was created using 3D modeling software for the bench and robot. The same robot model appears again in the illustration on page 31. Reflection maps and backgrounds were shot on location in Victoria, BC, Canada. Robot model by Jim Smith; textures and composite by Daniel Loxton.

Feature

The Omnitron
is Still With Us

by James Randi

Junior Skeptic

Pyramid Power

Khufu’s Pyramid; “Pyramidology”; Razor Blades; Odd Inventions; Antoine Bovis Revealed; Hockey; Putting Pyramid Power To the Test!; The MythBusters Experiments; How Good Is Your Science? written and illustrated
by Daniel Loxton

News

President Clinton on UFOs

The 2005 IgNobel Prizes

by Rebecca Watson

In Memoriam: Philip J. Klass

by Gary P. Posner

Homeopathic Placebo
New Study Says Homeopathy Doesn’t Work

Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fear

by Brian Ragle

Young Earth Creationists:
Creation Conference in Lynchburg

by Jason Rosenhouse

Reviews

No Case at All

The Case for a Creator.
A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence that Points Towards God, by Lee Strobel.
reviewed by Tim Callahan

Science Without Borders

The Universe in a Single Atom:
The Convergence of Science & Spirituality, by His Holiness the
Dalai Lama.
reviewed by Michael Shermer

9/11: A Date That
Will Live in Infamy

The New Pearl Harbor:
Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11,
by David Ray Griffin.
reviewed by Richard Morrock

Creationism by
Any Other Name

The film The Privileged Planet: The Search for Purpose in the Universe.
reviewed by Charles G. Lambdin

Dawn of the Aquarian Age

The Cult of Alien Gods:
H.P. Lovecraft & Extraterrestrial
Pop Culture, by Jason Colavito.
reviewed by Tim Callahan

Political Science

The Republican War on Science,
by Chris Mooney.
reviewed by David Brin