Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, volume 14 number 2:
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Evolution of Intelligence
- Predicting Evolution
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How Likely is it that Human-level Intelligence will Evolve Again?
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The Chain of Accidents
& the Rule of Law -
The Role of Contingency & Necessity in the Evolution
of Higher Intelligence
News
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The Phoenix Lights
Explained (Again) - Arthur C. Clarke
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Visionary science-fiction author
- Socratic Skepticism
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Near Death Experiences
& the Medical Literature -
How Skeptics Confronted
9/11 Conspiracy Advocates
Forum
- Letters
- Universal Jackpots v. Intelligent Design; Reality Bites Journalist!; In Whose Belief Do We Trust?; Animal Rights & Research
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More Words
on Consciousness - Global Warming Forum
Expelled Exposed!
- Ben Stein’s Blunder
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In a new documentary film — Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed — the actor, game show host and financial columnist Ben Stein falls for the pseudoscience of
Intelligent Design
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The Facts about the “Expelled” Scientists
in Expelled -
Guillermo Gonzalez and
Iowa State University
- Expelled & the Trouble Ahead for American Science
Articles
- The Myth of the Stages of Loss, Death & Grief
- Criminal Profiling
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Granfalloons and Gobbledygook
- The Curious Case of Freeman Dyson & the Paranormal
Features
- ‘Twas Brillig…
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Prayer and Pregnancy;
Shooting UFO Photos
- The SkepDoc
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Popular Medical Fallacies:
Ancient Wisdom; It Works for Me;
Natural is Good
Reviews
- The Matrix of the Brain
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A Mind of its Own:
How Your Brain Distorts & Deceives by Cordelia Fine
- Evolution in Our Genes
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Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA by Daniel J. Fairbanks
- Snake Oil Science
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The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine by R.Barker Bausell
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Gimme That
Old-Time Irreligion -
Irreligion:A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up by John Alan Paulos
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Between Scientism
& Postmodernism -
Darwinian Misadventures in the Humanities by Eugene Goodheart
- The Ghost in the Machine
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The Spiritual Brain by Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary
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Science & Religion
on the Rack -
Thank God for Evolution!: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World by the Rev. Michael Dowd
- CAM Scam
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Suckers: How Alternative
Medicine Makes Fools of Us All
by Rose Shapiro
- Fundamental Truths
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Bondage of the Mind by R.D.Gold
Junior Skeptic
- The Crystal Skulls
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- An Era of Fakes
- The Proof of “Provenance”
- Why Fake a Skull?
- F.A. Mitchell-Hedges — the “Real Indiana Jones” — Or a Faker?
- The Search for Atlantis
- the Lost City of Lubaantun
- Hoax Skulls
- An inspiration for the Original Cursed Skull Story
- More Tall Tales
- The Bottom Line