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Skeptic volume 04 number 4

volume 04 number 4
Carl Sagan Tribute

Can History Be Science?; Sulloway on Born to Rebel; Debunking Nostradamus; Critical Thinking About History; Left and Right Science; What Happened to N-Rays?…
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Skeptic volume 04 number 3

volume 04 number 3
Conspiracy

World’s End; Farrakhan and Paranoid Style; Freud’s Follies; Political Correctness Conspiracy; End of Science; End of Science; Randi on Police Psychics…
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Skeptic volume 04 number 2

volume 04 number 2
Evolutionary Ethics

Science of Morality; Miele interviews Garrett Hardin; Morality and Genetic Engineering; Evolution of Morality and Religion; Ethics Without Religion; Cosmythology; Superstition…
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Skeptic volume 04 number 1

volume 04 number 1
Evolutionary Psychology

Stephen Jay Gould Interview; (Im)moral Animal; Sociology as Alchemy; Beyond Just-So-Stories; How Humans Got Spots; Gould’s Dangerous Idea; Darwin Dangerous?…
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Skeptic volume 03 number 4

volume 03 number 4
Cosmology & God

Can Science Prove God?; Richard Dawkins Interview; Cosmological Crisis?; Physics of Immortality; Velikovsky — Pro, Con, and History; In-Group Morality…
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Skeptic volume 03 number 3

volume 03 number 3
Race & IQ

Bell-Shaped Curve’s Skewed Logic; Defending the Bell Curve; Scientology versus the Internet; “Curse” of King Tut; How to Eat a Light Bulb; “Recovered Memories”…
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Skeptic volume 03 number 2

volume 03 number 2
AIDS

AIDS Heresies; Astrology Brouhaha; Should the Bible be Taken Literally?; Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence; Parapsychologists and New Agers…
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Skeptic volume 03 number 1

volume 03 number 1
Pseudomedicine

Update False Memory Syndrome; Homeopathy; Alternative Healthcare; Therapeutic Touch; Leftist Science; Mattoon Mass Hysteria; Star Trek’s Meaning; Liquefying “Blood”…
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Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alternative Medicine

Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alternative Medicine

Harriet Hall, MD (aka the SkepDoc), shares her wit and wisdom about alternative medicine including: chiropractic, the placebo effect, homeopathy, acupuncture, and the questionable benefits of organic food, detoxification, and ‘natural’ remedies.

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Learn to be a Psychic in 10 Easy Lessons

Learn to be a Psychic in 10 Easy Lessons

Psychic readings and fortunetelling are an ancient art — a combination of acting and psychological manipulation. While some psychics are known to cheat and acquire information ahead of time, these ten tips focus on what is known as “cold reading” — reading someone “cold” without any prior knowledge about them.

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The Mind of the Market
by Michael Shermer

In this eye-opening exploration, Shermer uncovers the evolutionary roots of our economic behavior and explains how evolution shaped the modern economy.
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The Bible
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by Randel Helms

The Bible frequently seems to contradict itself. Randel Helms discusses these contradictions by looking at the cultural and historical factors that produced them.
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