Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, volume 13 number 4:
Table of Contents
Cover Story
- Quirkology
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How We Discover the Big Truths
in Small Things
Debates
- Beyond Demonic Memes
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Why Richard Dawkins
is Wrong About Religion
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Richard Dawkins Replies
to David Sloan Wilson -
The Great Afterlife Debate:
Michael Shermer versus
Deepak Chopra -
- Hope Springs Eternal
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Science, the Afterlife,
and the Meaning of Life
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Taking the
Afterlife Seriously
News
- Are the Textbook Wars Over?
- Skepticism Loses Two Stars
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Farewell to Paul MacCready
& Jerry Andrus
Junior Skeptic
- Alien Astronauts, Part II
- Ancient Jet Planes?; Miraculous Delhi Pillar; How were the Easter Island Statues Carved, Moved and Raised?; Nazca Lines — Drawings of the Gods?; Mighty Pyramids; Stonehenge and Merlin’s Magic; Did Aliens Mate with Humans?; Ancient Astronauts and Racist Assumptions; Is Von Däniken Serious?; The Bottom Line
Forum
- Letters
- Skeptical of the Autism-Vaccination Skeptics; Psychiatry Redux; First-Hand Opinion on Second Hand Smoke; Something From Nothing
- Animal Research Wars
Articles
- Aping Language
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A skeptical analysis of the evidence for nonhuman primate language
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The Myth of
the Mozart Effect - A New Mythology
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Ancient Astronauts,
Lost Civilizations &
the New Age Paradigm
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Consciousness is Nothing
But a Word -
Franklin’s Electric
Kite Experiment -
Did Benjamin Franklin really fly a kite to prove that lightning and static electricity were one and the same,or was it all just a hoax?
Features
- ’Twas Brillig…
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Phenomenon Examined
- The SkepDoc
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Ultrasound, Fish Oil & Ear Candles
Reviews
- Not Very Comforting
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Don’t Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking by Thomas Kida
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The Shape of the Earth
— Flat or Hollow? -
Flat Earth:The History of an Infamous Idea by Christine Garwood
Hollow Earth:The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth’s Surface by David Standish.
- Here Be Monsters
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Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World’s Most Elusive Creatures by Benjamin Radford & Joe Nickell
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How The Medical
Mind Works -
How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman - Two Views, One Reality
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Darwin and Intelligent Design
by Francisco AyalaLiving with Darwin: Evolution,
Design and the Future of Faith by Philip Kitcher - No Child Left Behind
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The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering by Michael J. Sandel
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