Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 16 Number 4
Table of Contents
Special Section on
UFO & Alien Beliefs
- Pulp Fiction UFO
- How the Idea of UFOs Originated
- Roswell, Aliens & Belief
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Who Believes that Aliens
Landed at Roswell?
Special Section on Precognition
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Precognition or
Pathological Science? - An Analysis of Daryl Bem’s Controversial “Feeling the Future” Paper
- To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
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How the Science of Sleep
Explains “Precognitive” Dreams
Special Section on Apologetics
- What’s So Great About Kant?
- A Critique of Dinesh D’Souza’s Attack on Reason
- God’s Quarterback
-
A Critique of Theologian
William Lane Craig
- Rough-Tuned Universe
-
How the “Fine-tune” Argument of Creationists Works Against Them
Columns
- The SkepDoc
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Complexities of Antioxidants
- Bad Language
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Healing and Harming Sounds
- ’Twas Brillig…
-
Trying to Give Away
a Million Dollars
Articles
- What Is the Most Effective?
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The Debate Between Confrontational Activism v. Educational Outreach
- Quacks & Quakes
- The Blind Leading the Blind
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How Creationists Edit Themselves and Their Peers
Reviews
- The Immortalist
- Transcendent Man: A Film About the Life and Ideas of Ray Kurzweil
- Alien Planets & Life
-
Strange New Worlds
by Ray Jayawardhana
- Superstition in the U.S.
-
Paranormal America
by Christopher D. Bader, F. Carson Mencken, and Joseph O. Baker
- Among The Cadavers
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The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and The Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr
- The Physics of Atheism
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The Fallacy of Fine Tuning: Why the Universe is Not Designed for Us
by Victor Stenger
- Does Being Right Matter?
-
Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us—And How to Know When Not to Trust Them by David H. Freedman.
News & Forum
- 2011’s Record Tornado Season
- Letters
Junior Skeptic
- Fossil Fakes Part 1
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- Hoaxes of the Ancient World
- Hydrarchos—Gigantic Fossil Reptile, or Gigantic Fake?
- Did a Famous Hoaxer Make One of the Most Important
- Genuine Fossil Discoveries of All Time?
- Pseudofossils and Deliberate Fossil Fakes
- A Tale of Two Birds: The Archaeoraptor Fiasco
- A Tale of Two Birds: Archaeopteryx “Hoax”?
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