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Skeptic Magazine, Volume 24 Number 2
Table of Contents
Articles
- Pterosaur Thunderbird
- The Origin of a Fake Native American Legend with an Anti-Evolution Agenda
by Philip J. Senter - Conversations with My Dead Mother
- Why We See Signs and Omens in Everyday Events
by Jesse Bering - Is Cousin Marriage Dangerous?
- by Gabriel Andrade
- Therapeutic Touch Redux Twenty Years After the “Emily Event”
- Energy Therapies Live on Through Bad Science
by April Bleske-Rechek, Katie Paulich, and Keith Jorgensen - What Can Science Learn from Religion?
- Steven Pinker on Religious Beliefs and Rituals
edited by Michael Shermer - Becoming Fantastic
- Why People Embellish Already Accomplished Lives with Incredible Tales of UFOs and Other Phenomena
by Eric Wojciechowski - 1984 in 2019
- The New Privacy Threat from China’s Social Credit Surveillance System
by John Glynn
Columns
- The SkepDoc
- Laser Therapy: Hope or Hype and Hokum?
by Harriet Hall, M.D. - The Gadfly
- The Sisyphean Challenges of Skepticism or, Start By Disbelieving
by Carol Tavris
Special Debate Section
- Is the Reality of Evil Good Evidence Against the Christian God?
- Notes from a Debate on the Problem of Evil
by Michael Shermer - Is the Reality of Evil Good Evidence Against the Christian God?
- A Response to Michael Shermer’s Affirmative Answer
by Brian Huffling
Review
- American Atlantis
- A review of America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization, by Graham Hancock
reviewed by Jason Colavito
Junior Skeptic
- The Cardiff Giant: One of America’s Greatest Hoaxes
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In this issue of Junior Skeptic we’ll tell a story of gigantic proportions! Once upon a time, America buzzed with claims that the remains of a giant had been dug up from a field in New York state. It was over ten feet tall and made entirely of stone. Amazed onlookers said this was the fossilized body of a colossal human being. Could this be true? Was America once home to a lost race of giants? Or was this a whopper too big to swallow? Let’s find out!
by Daniel Loxton
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