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Cover Story
Medical Controversies

Science & Secondhand Smoke: The Need for a
Good Puff of Skepticism
by Sidney Zion
Clearing the Air: What Does Science Really Say About Secondhand Smoke?
by Harriet Hall, M.D.
Mercury Rising: Exposing the Vaccine-Autism Myth
by Matthew Normand
and Jesse Dallery
The Trouble with Psychiatry: by John Sorboro, M.D.
Animals & Medicine: Do Animal Experiments
Predict Human Responses?
by Niall Shanks, Ray Greekk, Nathan Nobis, and Jean Swingle-Greek
Contested Testimony in Scientific Disputes: The Case of the Origins of AIDS
by Brian Martin
Blind or Double Talk?: Reading Medical Research
with a Skeptical Eye
by Harriet Hall M.D.

Forum

Letters: Deepak Delusion; Dawkins & Religion; Evolution of Friends; The Secret’s Mistaken Physics; What is Superstition?; Pseudogenes: Evidence for Evolution?
Why This Universe Forum: Cosmological/Metaphysical Options; Constants of Physics; Probablility

Articles

Cosmos & Coincidence: Intelligent Design Theory Fails to Account for Sub-optimal Design
by Avital Pilpel
Bonobos, Left & Right: Primate Politics Heats up Again as Liberals and Conservatives Spin Doctor Science
by Frans B. M. de Waal

Features

’Twas Brillig…: Sam Harris and the Question of PSI
by James Randi
The SkepDoc: Curing the Common Cold
by Harriet Hall, M.D.

Junior Skeptic

Alien Astronauts, Part I written by Daniel Loxton; illustrations by Daniel Loxton and Jim WW Smith: Explaining Ancient mysteries; Firebringer Myths; Space Age Inspiration; Chariots of The Gods; Poisoning the Well; Caves of Gold; Von Däniken’s Proof; Ica Rocks; Could a Pterodactyl Carry a Human?

News

A Tribute to Don Herbert (Mr. Wizard): TV’s Original Science Teacher
by Bill Nye
Darwin v. Design: Discovery Institute’s
Knoxville, TN, Conference
by Jason Rosenhouse
Science Education & Belief in Pseudoscience: by Raymond A. Eve

Reviews

Burn Down the Thinkeries!

Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays by Frederick Crews
reviewed by Jonathan Gottschall

Theodicy for Atheists: The Problem of Evil in a Darwinian World

Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World by George Levine
reviewed by Norman Levitt

A Two Part Review of The Physics of Christianity

Part One: Blinded by Science?: The Physics of Christianity
by Frank Tipler
reviewed by Physicist Lawrence Krauss
Part Two: The Physics of Nonsense: The Physics of Christianity
by Frank Tipler from the Viewpoint of Biblical Scholarship
reviewed by Tim Callahan

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