Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 14 Number 3
Table of Contents
Cover Story
The New Revisionism
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The New Revisionism.
What if Hitler Won the War? -
Mark Weber, David Irving, and the Institute for Historical Review take on Winston Churchill, Pat Buchanan, and American Foreign Policy
Features
- ’Twas Brillig…
- The JREF Welcomes Dr. Philip Plait; Another Big Foot Hoax; Spaced Out Astronaut
- The SkepDoc
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What About Acupuncture?
News
- The Evolutionary 16
- Shaping a New Evolutionary Synthesis While Keeping the Looneys at Bay
- Creationism & Evolution Beliefs Among College Students
Forum
- Letters
- What if ET Doesn’t Want to Call?; Acupuncture and English; Chauvinism. The SkepDoc Responds; Thank God for Evolution author responds to review
Junior Skeptic
- Great American Skeptics
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- Ben Franklin, Scientist and Skeptic!
- The Power of Mesmerism?
- Franklin’s Scientific Tests of Mesmerism
- Why is “Spiritualism” Bad?
- The Great Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle
- Houdini vs. Spiritualism
- Mark Twain Takes Part in a Psychic Scam
- Twain vs. Phrenology
- Johnny Carson vs. a Psychic Spoon-bender
- Carson vs. a Faith Healer
- Carson’s support for the James Randi Educational Foundation
Articles
- Flagella Myths
- How Intelligent Design Proponents Created the Myth That Bacteria Flagella Look Like Man-made Machines
- “I Reject Your Reality”
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Germ Theory Denial
and Other Curiosities
- En-Twinned Lives
- Twins Experts Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. and Nancy L. Segal of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart Re-Unite to Discuss Behavior Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology
- When is an OBE not an OBE?
- A New Look at Out-of-Body Experiences
- NDE Redux
- Skeptics Need to Reclaim, Redefine and Embrace Near Death Experiences
- Whatever Happened to Stephen Wolfram?
- A New Kind of Science Revisited
- Doubting Altruism
- New Research Casts a Skeptical Eye on the Evolution of Genuine Altruism
Reviews
- Deconstructing the Hoax
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Deconstructing the Hoax Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal
- Fire in the Sky
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A Sumerian Observation of the Köfels Impact Event by Alan Bond & Mark Hempsell
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From Science Fiction
to Science Fact - Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, T Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
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Pyramidiots, Nazis,
& Post-Modernists -
Archaeological Fantasies. How pseudoarchaeology misrepresents the past and misleads the public edited by Garrett G. Fagan
- Quackery Then & Now
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Charlatan. America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock
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Lying for God:
The Dover Debacle -
The Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin by Lauri Lebo
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National Lampoon
Meets Creationism -
Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Easter Bunny by Barrett Brown and Jon P. Alston
- Swayonomics
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Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman
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