Skeptic Magazine, Volume 25 Number 1
Table of Contents
Cover Article
Meditation
- Meditation as Ideology
- Meditations on Meditation
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A Scientific and Clinical Perspective
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
- Ten Years Away…And Always Will Be
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A review of Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
- 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
- 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
Columns
- The SkepDoc
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The Fountain of Youth & Other Anti‑Aging Myths
- The Gadfly
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How Would You Design a “Code of Conduct”?
Articles
- Apples and Oranges, Ants and Humans
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The Misunderstood Art of Making Comparisons
- The Phantom Drone Scare
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Drone Sightings in the Midwest — But Rule Out the Mass Hysteria Explanation
- Biological Beauty
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An Adaptive Illusion
- Monopoly & Monopolies
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What Board Games Teach Us About Capitalism and How to Modify It
- Integrative Cancer Care Below the Bar of Science
- Can We Ever Explain It All?
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Eight Key Points from World History
- Countless Counterfeits
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A New Logically Fallacy?
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!
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