Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, volume 15 number 2:
Table of Contents
The End of the World, Again?
- 2012 and Counting
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A NASA Scientist Answers the
Top 20 Questions About 2012
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Will Physicists
Destroy the World? -
The Large Hadron Collider
and the Threats of Catastrophe
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Physicists Will Not
Destroy the World -
Why We Need Not Worry
About the Large Hadron Collider
Features
- ‘Twas Brillig…
- A Magician in the Laboratory
- The SkepDoc
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Chiropractic: A Little Physical Therapy, a Lot of Nonsense
News
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The Problem of Bias,
Even in Biology - Darwin in Texas
- An Empirical Study on What Teachers of Evolution Believe
- A Governor’s Prayer for Rain
-
An Empirical Analysis
of a Supernatural Claim
Junior Skeptic
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The Shocking Secret
of Thetis Lake -
- What Dwells Below?
- A Legend Is Born
- A Face for the Monster
- The Tegu Lizard
- Monster from the Surf
- More like a Pond
- The Real Solution
- Why Tell this Story at all?
Articles
- The Coriolis Effect
- Does water drain in different directions in the northern and southern hemispheres?
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Vaccines & Autism:
A Deadly Manufactroversy
Religion & Society
- Atheism Rising
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Intelligence, Science,
and the Decline of Belief -
Why Religions
Turn Oppressive -
A Perspective from
Evolutionary Psychology
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It’s Time to Teach
the Controversy -
Since Creationism Isn’t Going Away, Let’s Use it in the Classroom to Teach the Difference between Science and Pseudoscience
Reviews
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Gullible Instructing
the Gullible -
Annals of Gullibility: Why We Get Duped and How to Avoid it by Stephen Greenspan
- Philosophers, Creationists, and Serious Brainiacs
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But is it Science? The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy (updated edition) edited by Robert T.Pennock and Michael Ruse
- Complexity Redux
- Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
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Mr. Armstrong’s Jersey
& Mr. Rogers’ Sweater - Supersense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable by Bruce M.Hood
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The Six Degrees
of Adolf Hitler - Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life by Albert-László Barabási
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Sensed Presences
in Extreme Contexts - The Third Man Factor: The Secret of Survival in Extreme Environments by John Geiger
Forum
- Letters
- Homeopathic Lake Water; Human Inevitability?; Telling Lies About JFK; Preaching to Ourselves; Aliens v. Bigfoot
- Historical Jesus
- Randi on his Double-Blind Experiment
- Positive Thinking Forum
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