Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, volume 15 number 1:
Table of Contents
Varieties of Unbelief
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The Greatest Story
Ever Garbled -
A critique of “The Greatest Story Ever Told” — Part I of the Internet feature Zeitgeist
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The New Atheism &
the New Anti-Atheism -
The Stealth Religion
of David Sloan Wilson
Features
- ‘Twas Brillig…
- Hot Feet and Cool Reason — Investigating the Firewalking Phenomenon
- The SkepDoc
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Homeopathy: Still Crazy
After All These Years
News
- How We Staged the Morristown UFO Hoax
- Orgone Energy v. the Scientific Method
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How to Test a
Paranormal Phenomenon - Crazy Ideas 101
- How to Teach Skeptical Thinking
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“Reasons To Believe”
… or Not - Michael Shermer v.Hugh Ross/Fazale Rana: Can Creationism Be a Testable Science?
Forum
- Letters
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Average Narcissist; JFK Assassination; Blinded by Double Blind; One People; Shareholders; Skepticism or Ridicule?;
Psychic Ponzi - Alternative Medicine
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Meat Eating Myths; Gulf War Illness, Real or Myth;
The SkepDoc Responds - Global Warming Forum
- Four Global Warming Questions; Beware of Global Warming Hysteria; Science Not Democratic; Whittenberger Responds
Articles
- Empirical Kanzi
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The Ape Language
Controversy Revisited - Criminal Injustice
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The Flaws and Fallacies of the American Justice System
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An Interview with
Matt Ridley - Darwin in the Boardroom: Evolution, Economics, and the Nature-Nurture Debate
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Browsing for Love
in All the Wrong Places - Research does not show a difference between Internet matchmaking methods and traditional dating
- The Placebo Effect
Reviews
- Return of the Ether
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The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek
- The Science of Love
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Decoding Love: Why It Takes Twelve Frogs to Find a Prince, and Other Revelations from the Science of Attraction by Andrew Trees
- The Soul of the Gaps
- Irreducible Mind:Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century by Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, and Bruce Greyson
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The Chess Master
& the Checkers Players - The Curious Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer. A film review of The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer by David Grubin
Junior Skeptic
- Everything I Needed to Know About Skepticism I Learned from Scooby-Doo
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- A paranormal claim is just another mystery to be solved;
- No matter how crazy the claim, someone will always believe it;
- Seeing does not mean believing;
- Skepticism can be fun;
- People hoax for all kinds of reasons;
- Witnesses and researchers can be in on the hoax;
- Hoaxers are often motivated by money;
- Even hundreds of the same kind of mystery can all turn out to be false;
- Even a preposterous real-world explanation is more likely than a supernatural guess.