Skeptic Magazine, Volume 20 Number 1
Table of Contents
Reviews
- Artificial Intelligence: Benevolent or Malevolent?
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Reviews of The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind, by Michio Kaku, and Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era, by James Barrat
- The Thinking Atheist Confesses
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A review of Deconverted: A Journey from Religion to Reason, by Seth Andrews
- Proof and God
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A review of Why Science Does Not Disprove God,
by Amir D. Aczel
Junior Skeptic
- Journey Inside the Fantastical Hollow Earth
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Could unknown civilizations rule undiscovered realms deep underground? Might prehistoric beasts stalk through jungles far below our feet? These ideas have long inspired writers of science fiction and adventure stories. For example, the 2009 animated film Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs was based on them. But for some people the “Hollow Earth” is more than just a make-believe story. How did people find their way into such a fantastic belief?
Special Section:
Terrorism
- A Skeptic’s Guide to the War on Terror
- Myths of Terrorism
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Religion, Violence,
and Terrorism -
An Empirical Evolutionary Study
Columns
- The SkepDoc
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Colloidal Silver, Smurfs,
and Ebola
- The Gadfly
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The Persistent Myth
of the Mad Genius
Articles
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The Legend of the
Falling Beast - Cow Tipping’s Surprising Origins
- Clever Hans
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What a Horse Can Teach Us About Self Deception
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The Demon Test: Possessed
of Problems - The Biological and Psychological Basis of Horror
- The Rain Fakirs
- The Rain Fakirs How Con Men Used Pseudoscience to Exploit the Drought of the 1890s
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Quantum Cure-All
or Quackery? -
Can Superpositions of Quantum Consciousness Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Nonlocal Potentiality?
Humor
- Pandemic Pandering
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A Special Report on
Special Pleading
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