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Skeptic Magazine, Volume 20 Number 2
Table of Contents
Columns
- ON THE COVER: Dr. Carl Hart, neuropsychopharmacologist and expert on the effects of drugs on human behavior. Photo by Eileen Barroso.
- The SkepDoc
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Smokey the Bear Medicine
by Harriet Hall, M.D. - The Gadfly
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How to Make Young Kids Smarter
by Carol Tavris
Reviews
- Flawed Geniuses in Film
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Film Biographies: Stephen Hawking: The Theory of Everything, and Alan Turing: The Imitation Game
reviewed by Donald Prothero - The Use and Abuse of Mirror Neurons
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A Review of The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition, by Gregory Hickok
reviewed by Harriet Hall, M.D. - Wonderful Science
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A Review of A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble, by Edzard Ernst
reviewed by Harriet Hall, M.D. - God’s Lawyer
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A Review of Christianity on Trial: A Lawyer Examines the Christian Faith, by Mark Lanier
reviewed by L. Kirk Hagen -
Willpower and
Won’t Power -
A Review of The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control, by Walter Mischel
reviewed by Michael Shermer - In the Belly of the Beast
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A Review of Among the Creationists: Dispatches from the Anti-Evolutionist Front Lines, by Jason Rosenhouse
reviewed by Donald R. Prothero - Stranger than Fiction
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A Review of of the HBO Documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
reviewed by Donald R. Prothero
Articles
- Who Speaks for Earth?
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The Current Controversy over METI: Messaging to Extra Terrestrial
by David Brin - Can Emotions Affect Matter?
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Testing Masaru Emoto’s Hypothesis that Emotions Change Nature
by Nicolas Gauvrit and Stanislas Francfort - Heaven Only Knows
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Near-Death Experiences and the Problem of Account Incongruence
by Cory Markum - Where Drug Myths Die
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An Interview with Carl Hart
by Felipe Nogueira - Putin’s Rasputin
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Meet Aleksandr Dugin, Mystical High Priest of Russian Fascism
by Robert Zubrin - Placebo, Are You There?
- by Jean Brissonnet; translation by Harriet Hall, M.D.
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What Parents Need
Not to Know -
Eight Myths of Child Development
by Stephen Hupp and Jeremy Jewell - What Does “Supernatural” Mean, Anyway?
- by Michael Shermer
- The Diet-Heart Hypothesis
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The Contested Roles of Fats and Carbohydrates in Heart Disease
by Kenneth W. Krause - A Psychologist’s Innumeracy
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A Guide to Recognizing Pseudo-mathematics in the Social Sciences
by Eric C.Prichard
Junior Skeptic
- Journey Inside the Fantastical Hollow Earth: Part Two
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In this issue of Junior Skeptic, we’ll dig down further into wild and wonderful claims that there are secret worlds inside our planet, hidden beneath our feet. We learned last issue that the “Hollow Earth” began as a quirky but serious proposal by astronomer Edmond Halley, back in the earliest dawn of the scientific age. This idea was then promoted by eccentric thinkers such as John Cleves Symmes, who believed the interior could be entered through vast holes at the unexplored North and South Poles. But what happened when exploration and increasing scientific knowledge left these speculations behind?
by Daniel Loxton
Humor
- The Problem With Facts
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Why the Law of Gravity is False
by Kyle Sanders
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