Skeptic Magazine, Volume 21 Number 1
Table of Contents
Columns
- The SkepDoc
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Who’s Crazy Now?: DSM-5 and the Classification of Mental Disorders
- The Gadfly
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The Delicate Dilemma of Defining Rape
Review
- Advocatus Diaboli—the Devil’s Advocate
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A review of Red Team: How To Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy, by Micah Zenko.
Junior Skeptic
- Haunted Houses
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In this issue we’ll summon our courage, light a candle, and venture inside the ancient horror of haunted houses. Imagine walking dark hallways, peering into abandoned rooms. We strain to recognize unfamiliar shapes in the shadows. A cold draft stirs the cobwebs; outside, wind moans through the trees. We climb creaking stairs up into the unknown. Ahead of us, we — wait, did you hear something? Were those…footsteps? Our skin prickles with fear and tension. Breathless, trembling, we call into the darkness, “Is somebody there?”
Excerpt
- Cons
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by Maria Konnikova
ON THE COVER: Photos by Ed Pastor. Photo illustration by Ed Pastor and Pat Linse.
Articles
- America’s Stonehenge
- Did Highly Developed Europeans Build a Sophisticated Astronomical and Religious Monument on the American East Coast MoreThan 3000 Years Ago?
- The Great ET Paradox: Why We are Likely to Find Them Before They Find Us
- Is Star KIC 8462852 a Sign of an Extraterrestrial Civilization?
- Hurricane Strikes as Divine Retribution
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An Empirical Test
- Ruins of Empires
- Thomas Jefferson, Constantin-Francois Volney, and the Separation of Church and State
- Winning the Vaccination War in California
- Prophet Without Honor
- Francis Galton and the Birth of Behavioral Genetics
- When Cops Kill: An Insider’s Perspective
- Guns and Games
- The Relationship Between Violent Video Games and Gun Crimes in America
- More on Morals: On Science and Morality
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- Deontologists are Covert Consequentialists
- Expanding Science to Include Morals
- Clarifying Confusions
- Alligators in the Sewers!
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