Skeptic Magazine, Volume 24 Number 1
Table of Contents
Columns
- The SkepDoc
- Is Low-Dose Radiation Good for You? The Questionable Claims for Hormesis
- The Gadfly
- Define Your Terms (or, Here We Go Again)
Articles
- Making Gasoline from Water
- John Andrews and the Invention of a Legend
- Online Gaming
- A Virtual Experiment in the Dark Side of Human Nature
- Duped by Data Mining
- How Science Will Explain and Fix Fake News
- The Cult of Falun Gong
- A Dance Troupe and Victimhood Raises Big Money
- The Opioid Epidemic Misunderstood
- Why the Human-Centered View Has Not Served us Well
- Behe’s Last Stand
- The Lion of Intelligent Design Roars Again
- Straw Man on a Slippery Slope
- The Case Against the Case Against Postmodernism
- A Disproof of God’s Existence
Reviews
- Coddling Untruths
- A review of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.
- How to Know What’s Really Real
- A review of The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake, by Steven Novella with Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, and Evan Bernstein.
- What Are Ghosts, Anyway?
- A review of Investigating Ghosts: The Scientific Search for Spirits, by Benjamin Radford.
- Hoaxed!
- Reviews of Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, by Kevin Young, and Hoax: A History of Deception: 5000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies, by Ian Tattersall and Peter Nevraumont.
- The Mead-Freeman Controversy 4.0
- A review of Truth’s Fool: Derek Freeman and the War Over Anthropology, by Peter Hempenstall.
Junior Skeptic
- Quest for the Truth about Dungeons & Dragons
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In this issue of Junior Skeptic we’ll sharpen our pencils, pick up our magical swords, and dare to delve into mazes of mystery. We’ll roll the dice and imagine couragous heroes doing battle with evil monsters. Millions of people have enjoyed fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). Fans discover the joy of storytelling and take epic journeys into the imagination. But critics have claimed that D&D is dangerous. According to them, the game can drive players insane. Criminals have sometimes blamed D&D for their crimes. Other writers claim that the game lures innocent children to become Devil worshippers. Could any of this be true? Let’s find out!
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