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Skeptic Magazine, Volume 16 Number 4
Table of Contents
Special Section on
UFO & Alien Beliefs
- Pulp Fiction UFO
- How the Idea of UFOs Originated by Armando Simon
- Roswell, Aliens & Belief
-
Who Believes that Aliens
Landed at Roswell?
by Frank Borzellieri
Special Section on Precognition
-
Precognition or
Pathological Science? - An Analysis of Daryl Bem’s Controversial “Feeling the Future” Paper by Nicolas Gauvrit
- To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
-
How the Science of Sleep
Explains “Precognitive” Dreams
by Richard Wiseman
Special Section on Apologetics
- What’s So Great About Kant?
- A Critique of Dinesh D’Souza’s Attack on Reason by Michael Dahlen
- God’s Quarterback
-
A Critique of Theologian
William Lane Craig
by Kenneth Grubbs - Rough-Tuned Universe
-
How the “Fine-tune” Argument of Creationists Works Against Them
by Christopher Sirola
Columns
- The SkepDoc
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Complexities of Antioxidants
by Harriet Hall, M.D. - Bad Language
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Healing and Harming Sounds
by Karen Stollznow - ’Twas Brillig…
-
Trying to Give Away
a Million Dollars by James Randi
Articles
- What Is the Most Effective?
-
The Debate Between Confrontational Activism v. Educational Outreach
by Daniel Loxton - Quacks & Quakes
- by Donald Prothero
- The Blind Leading the Blind
-
How Creationists Edit Themselves and Their Peers
by Ralph M. Barnes and
Rebecca A. Church
Reviews
- The Immortalist
- Transcendent Man: A Film About the Life and Ideas of Ray Kurzweil reviewed by Michael Shermer
- Alien Planets & Life
-
Strange New Worlds
by Ray Jayawardhana
reviewed by Justin Trottier - Superstition in the U.S.
-
Paranormal America
by Christopher D. Bader, F. Carson Mencken, and Joseph O. Baker
reviewed by Anondah Saide - Among The Cadavers
-
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and The Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr
reviewed by Stephen Beckner - The Physics of Atheism
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The Fallacy of Fine Tuning: Why the Universe is Not Designed for Us
by Victor Stenger
reviewed by Andrew Zak Williams - Does Being Right Matter?
-
Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us—And How to Know When Not to Trust Them by David H. Freedman.
reviewed by David H. Voelker
News & Forum
- 2011’s Record Tornado Season
- by Donald Prothero
- Letters
Junior Skeptic
- Fossil Fakes Part 1
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- Hoaxes of the Ancient World
- Hydrarchos—Gigantic Fossil Reptile, or Gigantic Fake?
- Did a Famous Hoaxer Make One of the Most Important
- Genuine Fossil Discoveries of All Time?
- Pseudofossils and Deliberate Fossil Fakes
- A Tale of Two Birds: The Archaeoraptor Fiasco
- A Tale of Two Birds: Archaeopteryx “Hoax”?
Written by Daniel Loxton and Jason Loxton, with special contribution from Adrienne Mayor. Cover by Jim WW Smith and Daniel Loxton
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