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Skeptic Magazine, Volume 14 Number 2
Table of Contents

Cover Story
Evolution of Intelligence
- Predicting Evolution
-
How Likely is it that Human-level Intelligence will Evolve Again?
by David Zeigler -
The Chain of Accidents
& the Rule of Law -
The Role of Contingency & Necessity in the Evolution
of Higher Intelligence
by Michael Shermer
News
-
The Phoenix Lights
Explained (Again) - by Tony Ortega
- Arthur C. Clarke
-
Visionary science-fiction author
by Gregory Benford - Socratic Skepticism
- by Priscilla Sakezles
-
Near Death Experiences
& the Medical Literature - by Mark Crislip
-
How Skeptics Confronted
9/11 Conspiracy Advocates - by John Ray
Forum
- Letters
- Universal Jackpots v. Intelligent Design; Reality Bites Journalist!; In Whose Belief Do We Trust?; Animal Rights & Research
-
More Words
on Consciousness - Global Warming Forum
Expelled Exposed!
- Ben Stein’s Blunder
-
In a new documentary film — Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed — the actor, game show host and financial columnist Ben Stein falls for the pseudoscience of
Intelligent Design
by Michael Shermer -
The Facts about the “Expelled” Scientists
in Expelled -
Guillermo Gonzalez and
Iowa State University
by Lauri LeboRichard Sternberg and
the Smithsonian Institution
by Ed BraytonCaroline Crocker and
George Mason University
by Carrie Sager and Andrea Bottaro - Expelled & the Trouble Ahead for American Science
- by Kenneth R. Miller
Articles
- The Myth of the Stages of Loss, Death & Grief
-
by Russell Friedman
and John W. James - Criminal Profiling
-
Granfalloons and Gobbledygook
by Brent Snook, Paul Gendreau, Craig Bennell, and Paul J.Taylor - The Curious Case of Freeman Dyson & the Paranormal
- by Matthew Dentith
Features
- ’Twas Brillig…
-
Prayer and Pregnancy;
Shooting UFO Photos
by James Randi - The SkepDoc
-
Popular Medical Fallacies:
Ancient Wisdom; It Works for Me;
Natural is Good
by Harriet Hall, M.D.
Reviews
- The Matrix of the Brain
-
A Mind of its Own:
How Your Brain Distorts & Deceives by Cordelia Fine
reviewed by David Ludden - Evolution in Our Genes
-
Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA by Daniel J. Fairbanks
reviewed by Tim Callahan - Snake Oil Science
-
The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine by R.Barker Bausell
reviewed by Harriet Hall, M.D. -
Gimme That
Old-Time Irreligion -
Irreligion:A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up by John Alan Paulos
reviewed by Norman Levitt -
Between Scientism
& Postmodernism -
Darwinian Misadventures in the Humanities by Eugene Goodheart
reviewed by Norman Levitt - The Ghost in the Machine
-
The Spiritual Brain by Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary
reviewed by Douglas
Alexander Mesner -
Science & Religion
on the Rack -
Thank God for Evolution!: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World by the Rev. Michael Dowd
reviewed by Michael J.Booker - CAM Scam
-
Suckers: How Alternative
Medicine Makes Fools of Us All
by Rose Shapiro
reviewed by Harriet Hall, M.D. - Fundamental Truths
-
Bondage of the Mind by R.D.Gold
reviewed by Tim Callahan
Junior Skeptic
- The Crystal Skulls
-
- An Era of Fakes
- The Proof of “Provenance”
- Why Fake a Skull?
- F.A. Mitchell-Hedges — the “Real Indiana Jones” — Or a Faker?
- The Search for Atlantis
- the Lost City of Lubaantun
- Hoax Skulls
- An inspiration for the Original Cursed Skull Story
- More Tall Tales
- The Bottom Line
written by Daniel Loxton;
illustrations by Daniel Loxton
and Jim WW Smith

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