Skeptic Magazine, Volume 22 Number 3
Table of Contents
Special Section: An Academic Hoax
- Failure to Communicate
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Why We Published the “Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct” Hoax Exposé
- The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct
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A Sokal-Style Hoax on Gender Studies
- More Fashionable Nonsense
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Some thoughts on “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct” Hoax
Cover Story: Evaluating Lost Civilization Evidence
- Debating Science and Lost Civilizations
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My Experience on the Joe Rogan Experience
- Conjuring Up a Lost Civilization
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An Analysis of the Claims Made by Graham Hancock in Magicians of the Gods
- Lost Civilizations and Imaginative Conjectures
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An Analysis of the Myths and History of Graham Hancock’s Magicians of the Gods
Columns
- The SkepDoc
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Juicing for Health or Torture
- The Gadfly
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Our Angry Era
Articles
- Big News on Homo naledi
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More Fossils and a Surprising Young Age
- Publicly Funded Stem Cell Research
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California’s $3-Billion Experiment in Public Science
- How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog
- Science, Facts, and “Provisional” Knowledge
Junior Skeptic
- Zombies: The Gruesome True Story
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Our world has been conquered by hordes of zombies! They menace us in video games, comics, television, and movies. They lurch gruesomely down city streets in “zombie walk” events. After decades of zombie fiction, the walking dead are more popular than ever. Mindless, moaning, hungry for human flesh, zombies may be the ultimate modern monsters. They’ve spread like a virus through tales of terror and horrified imaginings. But where did the idea come from? Were zombies invented for fiction, or do they have a basis in legend—or perhaps even in reality? Could anything like fictional movie zombies actually exist in the real world? Let’s find out!
CORRECTION: In Skeptic 22.2 we published an article titled “Area 51: What’s Really Going on There?” by Donald Prothero. It was credited as an excerpt from the forthcoming co-authored volume by Prothero and Tim Callahan, titled UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says (Indiana University Press, August 2017), which it is. But it was originally published in a book consisting of a collection of articles edited by Karen Stollznow titled Would You Believe It?: Mysterious Tales from People You’d Least Expect (January, 2017) under the same title. This work should have been properly referenced in the SKEPTIC issue. Our apologies to Karen Stollznow and to our readers for this oversight. —Michael Shermer, Publisher
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