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Cover Articles

CAM for Cancer: Preying on Desperate People?: by Harriet Hall, M.D.
The Reality Distortion Field: Steve Jobs’s Modus Operandi of Ignoring Reality is a Double-edged Sword by Michael Shermer

Special Section:
Who’s in Charge?

Free Will and Autonomous Will: A Physicist’s Perspective on
How We are Accountable for
Our Actions by Victor J. Stenger
The New Science of Neuroethics: by Massimo Pigliucci

Columns

The SkepDoc: Barefoot in Sedona: Bogus Claims About Grounding Your Feet to Earth Promote Medical Pseudoscience
by Harriet Hall, M.D.
Bad Language: Deliver Us From Bob Larson
by Karen Stollznow
’Twas Brillig…: So Many Wonders… by James Randi

Junior Skeptic

Dark Secrets of the Oracle-Monger

Ancient Schemer, Ancient Skeptic
Portrait of a Con Artist
Trustworthy Sources?
Oracles
Hatching a God
Revealing Glycon
Networks of Spies
More Scammer Secrets
Tricks and Troubles
Testing the Oracle

Written by Daniel Loxton.
Cover by Daniel Loxton.
Interior art by Daniel Loxton
and Jim WW Smith.

Articles

Did Native Americans Discover Europe in 60 BCE?: by Jason Colavito
Mrs. Jesus?: No Joke: New Archaeological Find Points to a Married Christ, But is it True? by Tim Callahan
How To Be a Skeptical News Consumer: by Donna L. Halper
Glossolalia Meets Glosso-Psychology: Why speaking in Tongues Persists in Charismatic Christian and Pentecostal Gatherings
by Scott Semenyna
and Rodney Schmaltz
Academic Obfuscations: The Psychological Attraction of Postmodern Nonsense by Jim Davies
God’s Problem: An Interview With Howard Bloom, author of The God Problem: How a Godless
Cosmos Creates
by Frank Miele

Reviews

Bogus, Bunk, and B.S.: A Review of 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think are True,
by Guy P. Harrison. reviewed by Peter Boghossian
How the Blind Watchmaker Made Eyes: A Review of Evolution’s Witness: How Eyes Evolved,
by Ivan R. Schwab. reviewed by Donald R. Prothero
Eden Sought: A Review of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden, by Brook Wilensky-Lanford.
reviewed by Glenn Branch
One Nation, Another Religion?: Two Reviews: Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans, by David Niose. Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion, by Alain de Botton.
reviewed by Rachel Pridgen
Of Miracles and Magisteria: A review of God and the Folly of Faith, by Victor Stenger.
reviewed by Richard Morrock

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