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Columns

SkepDoc: Stupid Videos & Marketing Ploys
by Harriet Hall, M.D.
Environmental Conspiracies: Why do conspiracy theorists believe natural events are intentionally manipulated?
by Mick West
“You Can’t Say That!”: by Carol Tavris

Excerpt

Operation Crystal Ball: The Conjurer’s Conundrum: My Life in Magic & Skepticism
by Jamy Ian Swiss

Exchange

Misunderstanding Free Will: (Which We Don’t Have)
by David Reeve & Dennis Middlebrooks

Special Investigation

Penguin Paradox: Serious Skeptical Lessons from an Apparently Silly Story
by Daniel Loxton

Cover Story

: Cover & cover story illustrations by Izhar Cohen
Havana Syndrome Hysteria and the Great Wild Goose Chase: Classified documents reveal that Havana Syndrome is very likely a psychogenic illness and not a sonic attack by foreign actors
by Robert Bartholomew

Articles

Vexed by the Un‑Vaxxed: Why collective action problems like ending the pandemic are soluble if we understand the underlying motivations of vaccine hesitancy
by Michael Shermer
Misunderstanding Vaccines: by David Zeigler
Why Would God Create the Universe?: by Joseph Grcic
Distorting Darwinism: Evolution can shed light on the human condition. But skepticism is needed when bleak claims are declared from the armchair.
by Ilari Mäkelä
Electrohypersensitivity as a New Psychological Disorder: by Sébastien Point

Reviews

Imperfect Journey: Review of Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity by Charles Seife
reviewed by Chris Edwards
Deception & Self Deception: Reviews of Mysteries & Secrets Revealed: From Oracles at Delphi to Spiritualism in America by Loren Pankratz and The Conjurer’s Conundrum: My Life in Magic & Skepticism by Jamy Ian Swiss
by Michelle Ainsworth
Hoaxed: Review of The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in Eighteenth-Century England by Ian Keable by Michelle Ainsworth

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