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Skeptic magazine, vol 15, no 4 (cover art by Jim WW Smith, Daniel Loxton and Pat Linse)

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News & Cover Story

Worlds in Collision Redux: Velikovsky was Wrong, but New Research Indicates that Worlds Do Occasionally Collide by Liam McDaid
Climate Skeptics v. Climate Deniers: by David Brin

Special Section:
Health Hype

The Disappearing Male: A Pinch of Science, a Pound of Speculation on the Alleged Disappearance of Males by Harriet Hall, M.D., the SkepDoc
The Longevity Myth: Are We Really Living Longer? Or is the Headway Mostly Hype?: by Steve Salerno
Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?: by Bernard Leikind

Special Section:
Teaching Stratagies

Teaching By doing: Turning a Biology Curriculum Upside Down by Clark Lindgren
A Magician in the Classroom: Using Magic and Mentalism
to Teach Skepticism by Paul Goodin

Special Section:
The Non-Religious

The Stigma of Being an Atheist: An Empirical Study on the
New Atheist Movement and
its Consequences by Tom Arcaro
The Rise of the Nones and the Growth of Religious Indifference: by James Allan Cheyne

Columns

The SkepDoc: Boost My Immune System?
No Thanks!
by Harriet Hall, M.D.
Bad Language: Not-so-Linguistic Programming by Karen Stollznow
’Twas Brillig…: Those Damn Magic Sticks: The ADE 651 Bomb Detector Blows Up Under Scrutiny by James Randi

Articles

The $1 Million Dollar Challenge: by Greg Thompson
Testing Astrological Predictions About Sex, Marriage, and Selfishness: by Charles S. Reichardt
Truth v. Truths: An Enduring Dilemma for Skeptics
by William M. Gardner

Reviews

Freakonomics Redux: SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner reviewed by P.J. Rooks
Why Do Women Have Sex? Here’s Why: Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between), by Cindy M. Meston and David M.Buss
reviewed by Victoria Bekiempis
Is There Not Grandeur in this View?: The Greatest Show on Earth,
The Evidence for Evolution,
by Richard Dawkins reviewed by Kenneth Grubbs
God is Love: The Evolution of God,
by Robert Wright reviewed by P. J. Rooks
The Mythbusters of Psychology: 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior, by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, John Ruscio,
and Barry L. Beyerstein reviewed by Harriet Hall, M.D.
The Good News … Again?: The Reason for God: Belief
in an Age of Skepticism,
by Timothy Keller reviewed by Kenneth Grubbs

Junior Skeptic

Top Ten Busted Myths

Newspaper Horoscopes
Dowsing
Moon Landing Hoax
Homeopathy
The Loch Ness Monster
The 10% Brain Myth
The Bermuda Triangle
The Skull of Doom
Roswell UFO Crash
Ghost Orbs

Written by Daniel Loxton. Art by Daniel Loxton and Jim WW Smith

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