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Skeptic Magazine, Volume 25 Number 1
Table of Contents

Cover Article
- Why People Believe Conspiracy Theories
- by Michael Shermer
Debate
- Why We Are Living in a Post-Truth Era
- by Lee McIntyre
- The Truth About Post-Truth Truthiness
- by Michael Shermer
Meditation
- Meditation as Ideology
- by Kathy Schultheis
- Meditations on Meditation
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A Scientific and Clinical Perspective
by Jefferson M. Fish
Reviews
- Leaving the Garden
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A review of The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry by S. Joshua Swamidass
reviewed by Tim Callahan - Ten Years Away…And Always Will Be
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A review of Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
reviewed by Peter Kassan - It’s Magic
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A review of The Secret History of Magic: The True Story of the Deceptive Art by Peter Lamont and Jim Steinmeyer
reviewed by Michelle Ainsworth - Houdini Lives
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Reviews of The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini by Joe Posnanski; and Houdini: The Life and Times of the World’s Greatest Magician by Charlotte Montague
reviewed by Michelle Ainsworth
Columns
- The SkepDoc
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The Fountain of Youth & Other Anti‑Aging Myths
by Harriet Hall, M.D. - The Gadfly
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How Would You Design a “Code of Conduct”?
by Carol Tavris
Articles
- Apples and Oranges, Ants and Humans
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The Misunderstood Art of Making Comparisons
by Mark W. Moffett - The Phantom Drone Scare
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Drone Sightings in the Midwest — But Rule Out the Mass Hysteria Explanation
by Robert Bartholomew - Biological Beauty
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An Adaptive Illusion
by Victor S. Johnston - Monopoly & Monopolies
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What Board Games Teach Us About Capitalism and How to Modify It
by Jonathan Kay - Integrative Cancer Care Below the Bar of Science
- by Michael Stefanek and Christina D. Jordan
- Can We Ever Explain It All?
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Eight Key Points from World History
by Chris Edwards - Countless Counterfeits
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A New Logically Fallacy?
by David Kyle Johnson
Junior Skeptic
- Are You Eating Fake Food?
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Everybody eats food. Along with air, water, and shelter, food is a basic human need. Food is the most important thing we buy, and we can’t choose not to. We can’t survive without food! Almost no one in our culture is able to grow or forage for all of their own food. Even people who live on farms still buy ingredients for cooking and baking. Foods such as flour, sugar, and cheese need to be processed. Other foods come from far away places, such as tropical fruit, seafood, salt, spices, coffee, or tea. That means we have to rely on products sold in stores. But what happens when people sell food that isn’t what it’s supposed to be? Let’s find out!
by Daniel Loxton
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