Skeptic Magazine, Volume 21 Number 4
Table of Contents
Special Section: Classical Skepticism
- The Amityville Hoax at 40
- Why the Myth Endures
- Bad Anatomy: Do the Mysterious Rhodope Skull and Adygea Skulls Belong to Aliens?
- The Nazca Geoglyphs
- A Pictographic Creation Story
- Clown Panic!
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Sightings of Mysterious Clowns Rattle Nerves in South Carolina
Reviews
- A Betrayal of Confidence
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A review of The Faith of Christopher Hitchens, by Larry Taunton
- Why Salem?
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A review of three books about the Salem Witch Trials and their legacy: The Witches: Salem, 1692, by Stacy Schiff; In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, by Mary Beth Norton; America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft After Salem, by Owen Davies
Columns
Articles
- The Case for a Galactic Defense System
- What is Spirituality, Anyway?
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Is “Spirituality” so Broadly Defined that Testing for it is Meaningless?
- I am Not Living in a Computer Simulation, and Neither Are You
- The State of Tumortown
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The Cancer-care Industry’s Marketing Is Among the Most Deceptive on the Consumer Landscape
- Luck and Regression to the Mean
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One of the Most Fundamental Sources of Error in Human Judgment
- Political Obfuscation
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Thinking Critically about Public Discourse
Junior Skeptic
- Mammoth Mysteries! Part Two
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Mammoths and mastodons were the first fossil creatures ever to be reconstructed and understood for what they were: animals that lived during a previous prehistoric age and then vanished into extinction. What did this mean for the history of life? What scientific puzzles remained to be solved? And, which mammoth myths and mysteries continue to this day? Let’s find out!
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