Skeptic Magazine, Volume 3 Number 3
Table of Contents
Articles
- Scientology v. the Internet
- Free Speech & Copyright Infringement on the Information Super-Highway
- ’Twas Brillig…
- The “Curse” of King Tut and of the Princess-in-a-Box
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Satanic Panic Update:
The Dangers of Moral Panics - What Skeptics (and Everyone Else) Need to Know
- Believing the Unbelievable
- Linking “Recovered Memories” to Hypnosis, Dreams, Sleep Paralysis, and Panic Attacks
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The Question All
Skeptics are Asking -
What is the Proper Way
to Eat a Light Bulb?
News
- Poll Finds Americans Believe The End is Nigh; What Skeptics Believe; 2nd Annual Skeptics Awards Ceremony and Conference a Success; Dr. Randi I Presume?; Who Owns Ramtha?; Ramtha Advises the FAA; Repressed Memory; Conviction Reversed; Scientology Joins the Boy Scouts; The Devil Made Nixon Do It; Physicist Wins Million Dollar Religion Prize; Harvard Professor Investigated for Alien Beliefs; Philadelphia Skeptics Association; History of Skepticism Course
- Pseudohistory News
- Japanese Magazine Folds After Running Revisionist Article; Harvard Subscribes to Revisionist Journal; Neo-Nazi Headquarters Goes Up in Flames; Holocaust Revisionist Locked in Nazi Gas Chamber, Second Revisionist Denies the Event; Police raid Home of JHR Founder
- Lite News that has been Riding the Information Superhighway
- How Many Philosophers Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb? and Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
Books in Brief
- Common Sense, Science and Skepticism: A Historical Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, by Alan Musgrave; At the Fringes of Science, by Michael Friedlander; Entities: Angels, Spirits, Demons, and Other Alien Beings, by Joe Nickell; The Science Masters Series from Basic Books: The Origin of the Universe, by John D. Barrow; The Last Three Minutes, by Paul Davies; The Origin of Humankind, by Richard Leakey; River Out of Eden, by Richard Dawkins
Reviews
- The Dirt & the Details
-
Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend,
by Jeffrey S. Victor
- Houdini Escapes Again
-
The Life and Many Deaths of
Harry Houdini, by Ruth Brandon
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The Many Victims
of False Memories -
Victims of Memory: Incest, Accusation and Shattered Lives, by Mark Pendergast
Special Section:
Race and Intelligence
- Curves & Cycles
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An Introduction to the Special Section on The Bell Curve
- A Place in the Sun
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The Error in The Bell Curve is to assume that genetic variation, which can account for differences among individuals within a group, is also the reason for differences between groups.
-
The Skewed Logic
of the Bell-Shaped Curve - The authors leap from data to unfounded conclusions. The Bell Curve is really a book about how we should be spending our tax dollars.
- An Interview with Robert Sternberg: on The Bell Curve
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Even though it was written for the media, Herrnstein and Murray’s book has greatly increased public confusion and misconception about the relationship between heritability and environment.
- Insult to Injury — The Use & Abuse of The Bell Curve
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The Bell Curve has contributed to a renaissance of enthusiasm for some of the most dubious accomplishments of the human imagination — Social Darwinists, eugenicists, sterilizationists, racists, polygenecists, anti-amalgamationists, and elitists of every stripe.
- In Defense of The Bell Curve: The Reality of Race and the Importance of Human Differences
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We can begin this trip out of political correctness by noting that on genetic grounds alone there can be no doubt of the existence of a substantial number of human races. Races are, if you wish, fuzzy sets.
Forum
- Letters
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Bravo Siano; Pathological Credulity; What’s So Bad About Religion?; Religion is Irrational Nonsense; Religion Not Off Limits; Hal Lindsey Creates Atheist; Can’t-Know or Don’t-Know?; Is Schrödinger’s Cat Psychic?; Self-Deception; New Age Crapola; Skeptics No Killjoys; Not So Unsolved Mysteries; Nicole Is Not Crazy; Mystery Fumes, Phantom Gas; Skeptical of Nerve Gas; Interstate Highways in
Hawaii?; I’ll Take the Money Dr. Murray; Taking the Murray Challenge; Unfair Attack is Vintage Gould; Stasis is Data-Missing the Point About Punctuated Equilibrium; The Emperor of Rationality Has No Clothes; Randi Responds - Hume Forum
- Existence Exists; The Miracle of Hume’s Contradiction; The Hume Conspiracy; Schick Responds
- AIDS Forum
- Harris Clarifies AIDS; The Wrong Skepticism; AIDS and Reich; Just the Facts, Please; AIDS Scam; Harris Sells HIV Lie; How An HIV-AIDS Skeptic Really Thinks: Robert S. Root-Bernstein Responds, Selected Root-Bernstein Bibliography & Publications On Cofactors in AIDS; A Response to Robert S. Root-Bernstein From the Publisher; Dr. Steven B. Harris Responds
- Pseudohistory Forum
- Anti-German Bias; The Forgotten History; A Consilience Cable; White Nationalism v. White Supremacy; Skeptic Superficial and Slanted; Afrocentrism Still Needs Debunking; Population Revisionism; Save Some Skepticism for Revisionists’ Detractors
- Randi/Geller Update
- Geller’s Lawyer; Responds to Randi; Randi Responds; Science v. The Law: From the Publisher
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