Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, volume 13 number 3:
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Medical Controversies
- Science & Secondhand Smoke
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The Need for a
Good Puff of Skepticism
- Clearing the Air
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What Does Science Really Say About Secondhand Smoke?
- Mercury Rising
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Exposing the Vaccine-Autism Myth
- The Trouble with Psychiatry
- Animals & Medicine
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Do Animal Experiments
Predict Human Responses?
- Contested Testimony in Scientific Disputes
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The Case of the Origins of AIDS
- Blind or Double Talk?
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Reading Medical Research
with a Skeptical Eye
Forum
- Letters
- Deepak Delusion; Dawkins & Religion; Evolution of Friends; The Secret’s Mistaken Physics; What is Superstition?; Pseudogenes: Evidence for Evolution?
- Why This Universe Forum
- Cosmological/Metaphysical Options; Constants of Physics; Probablility
Articles
- Cosmos & Coincidence
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Intelligent Design Theory Fails to Account for Sub-optimal Design
- Bonobos, Left & Right
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Primate Politics Heats up Again as Liberals and Conservatives Spin Doctor Science
Features
- ‘Twas Brillig…
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Sam Harris and the Question of PSI
- The SkepDoc
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Curing the Common Cold
Junior Skeptic
- Alien Astronauts, Part I
- Explaining Ancient mysteries; Firebringer Myths; Space Age Inspiration; Chariots of The Gods; Poisoning the Well; Caves of Gold; Von Däniken’s Proof; Ica Rocks; Could a Pterodactyl Carry a Human?
News
- A Tribute to Don Herbert (Mr. Wizard)
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TV’s Original Science Teacher
- Darwin v. Design
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Discovery Institute’s
Knoxville, TN, Conference
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Science Education
& Belief in Pseudoscience
Reviews
- Burn Down the Thinkeries!
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Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays by Frederick Crews
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Theodicy for Atheists:
The Problem of Evil in
a Darwinian World -
Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World by George Levine
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A Two Part Review of
The Physics of Christianity -
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Part One:
Blinded by Science? -
The Physics of Christianity
by Frank Tipler
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Part Two:
The Physics of Nonsense -
The Physics of Christianity
by Frank Tipler from the Viewpoint of Biblical Scholarship
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Part One:
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