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Cover Story
The New Revisionism

The New Revisionism. What if Hitler Won the War?: Mark Weber, David Irving, and the Institute for Historical Review take on Winston Churchill, Pat Buchanan, and American Foreign Policy
by Michael Shermer

Features

’Twas Brillig…: The JREF Welcomes Dr. Philip Plait; Another Big Foot Hoax; Spaced Out Astronaut by James Randi
The SkepDoc: What About Acupuncture?
by Harriet Hall, M.D.

News

The Evolutionary 16: Shaping a New Evolutionary Synthesis While Keeping the Looneys at Bay by Massimo Pigliucci
Creationism & Evolution Beliefs Among College Students: by Ralph M.Barnes, Lesleh E. Keilholtz, and Audrey L. Alberstadt

Forum

Letters: What if ET Doesn’t Want to Call?; Acupuncture and English; Chauvinism. The SkepDoc Responds; Thank God for Evolution author responds to review

Junior Skeptic

Great American Skeptics

Ben Franklin, Scientist and Skeptic!
The Power of Mesmerism?
Franklin’s Scientific Tests of Mesmerism
Why is “Spiritualism” Bad?
The Great Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle
Houdini vs. Spiritualism
Mark Twain Takes Part in a Psychic Scam
Twain vs. Phrenology
Johnny Carson vs. a Psychic Spoon-bender
Carson vs. a Faith Healer
Carson’s support for the James Randi Educational Foundation

written by Daniel Loxton
and James Loxton;
illustrations by Daniel Loxton
and Jim WW Smith

Articles

Flagella Myths: How Intelligent Design Proponents Created the Myth That Bacteria Flagella Look Like Man-made Machines by Mark Perakh
“I Reject Your Reality”: Germ Theory Denial
and Other Curiosities
by Harriet Hall, M.D.
En-Twinned Lives: Twins Experts Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. and Nancy L. Segal of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart Re-Unite to Discuss Behavior Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology by Frank Miele
When is an OBE not an OBE?: A New Look at Out-of-Body Experiences by James Allan Cheyne
NDE Redux: Skeptics Need to Reclaim, Redefine and Embrace Near Death Experiences by Sebastian Dieguez
Whatever Happened to Stephen Wolfram?: A New Kind of Science Revisited by Garrett Neske
Doubting Altruism: New Research Casts a Skeptical Eye on the Evolution of Genuine Altruism by Kenneth W. Krause

Reviews

Deconstructing the Hoax: Deconstructing the Hoax Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal
reviewed by Michael Shermer
Fire in the Sky: A Sumerian Observation of the Köfels Impact Event by Alan Bond & Mark Hempsell
reviewed by Jeff Medkeff & Martin Rundkvist
From Science Fiction to Science Fact: Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, T Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku reviewed by Tauriq Moosa
Pyramidiots, Nazis, & Post-Modernists: Archaeological Fantasies. How pseudoarchaeology misrepresents the past and misleads the public edited by Garrett G. Fagan
reviewed by Martin Rundkvist
Quackery Then & Now: Charlatan. America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock
reviewed by Harriet Hall, M.D.
Lying for God: The Dover Debacle: The Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin by Lauri Lebo
reviewed by Paul Gross
National Lampoon Meets Creationism: Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Easter Bunny by Barrett Brown and Jon P. Alston
reviewed by Donald R. Prothero
Swayonomics: Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman
reviewed by Michael Shermer

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