Skeptic Magazine, Volume 25 Number 3
Table of Contents
Cover Article
- Science and Race
- What We Really Know
Columns
- The SkepDoc
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Wear a Mask, But Act as If It Doesn’t Work
- The Gadfly
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The Pope and Mussolini: A Parable for Our Time
Special Section: Afterlife Concepts
- Faked Death Stories and Resurrection Myths
- The Resurrection and Its Uncertainties
- Hell to Pay
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How Religions Use the Threat of Punishment to Terrify, Manipulate, and Control Believers
Reviews
- Primitivism Redux
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A review of Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress, by Christopher Ryan
- Woke Gone Wild
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A review of The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, The Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies, by Robert Boyers
Articles
- Wicked Games
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Lance Armstrong, Forgiveness and Redemption, and a Game Theory of Doping
- The Fragile Circle of Faith
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Finding Meaning and Purpose Without Religion
- Respecting Nature, Respecting People
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A Naturalist Model for Reducing Speciesism, Racism, and Bigotry
- Melville at the Googolplex
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What Moby-Dick Can Teach Us About the Current Crisis
- Is Science Amoral?
Excerpt
- The Hollow Earth
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If You Thought the Flat Earthers Were Out There, Wait Until You Read About Those Who Think the Earth Is an Empty Sphere Filled With Wonders
Junior Skeptic
- Plagued by Nonsense: Pandemics Throughout History—How Mistakes, Fakes, and Missing Facts Make Epidemics Worse
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In this issue of Junior Skeptic we’ll confront one of humanity’s scariest enemies: epidemic disease. Are we brave enough to face this horror? You bet we are! We’ve done it every day during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Covid is new. Other diseases have plagued our ancestors since ancient times. Mighty civilizations have been devastated by the invisible invaders we call “germs.” But people are not helpless! Over centuries, we learned how to fight back against disease. Our strongest weapons are science and critical thinking. However, germs have a powerful ally: misinformation! How do ignorance and bad ideas help the germs win—and what can we do about that? Let’s find out!
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