Skeptic » The Magazine » Volume 4 Number 2 Table of Contents

The Magazine

browse back issues

meet the contributors

Skeptic Magazine, Volume 4 Number 2
Table of Contents

Buy Digital Edition

Buy Print Edition

Subscribe Digitally

Subscribe Print

Download our app

Articles

’Twas Brillig…: Save Fuel, the Nation, the Environment, Money … Sure by James Randi
Whose is the Higher Superstition?: Reflections on the Need for Skeptical Open-Mindedness in the Days to Come
by Richard Olson
Cosmythology: Was the Universe Designed to Produce Us?
by Victor J. Stenger
The Question All Skeptics are Asking: What Was Adam’s IQ?
by Bernard Leikind

Reviews

Psychotherapeutic Witch Hunting: Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt, by Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker; Satanic Ritual Abuse: Principles of Treatment, by Colin Ross, M.D. reviewed by Jeffrey S. Victor
Leaps of Logic: Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles,and the Search for Supernatural Consolation, by Nicholas Humphrey
reviewed by Fred Bratman
Mother Not So Superior: The Missionary Position — Mother Teresa In Theory and Practice, by Christopher Hitchens
reviewed by Frank Miele

Books in Brief

: How Could You Do That?!: The Abdication of Character, Courage, and Conscience, by Laura Schlessinger; Issues in Evolutionary Ethics, edited by Paul Thompson; Narrow Roads of Gene Land,Volume 1: Evolution of Social Behaviour, by W. D. Hamilton; The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics, by Paul Lawrence Farber; Emotions in Command: A Naturalistic Study of Institutional Dominance, by Frank Kemp Salter; The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution, by John Brockman; Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, by James W. Loewen; The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan; The Unconscious Quantum: Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology, by Victor J. Stenger; Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology, by Kenneth L. Feder; The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal, edited by Gordon Stein; Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History, by Mary Lefkowitz; They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal, by Paula J. Caplan; Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth, by Burton L. Mack

News

Skeptics Society 1996 Conference: A Huge Success
Publishing Controversy
Gathering for Gardner II: Skeptics Walk on Fire For Bill Nye “the Science Guy.” Deconstruction Self-Destructs; Another National Skeptics Group; Attention Chicago Skeptics; Bad Writing Contest; Deaths in Major Sect; The Mysterious (and Profitable) Origins of Man; Millennium Mystery or Misinformation?
: Patterson Bigfoot Hoax; Gallup Poll Results: Hell/Devil Gainers, Science/Rationality Losers; Edgar Mitchell’s Carefully Omissive Interview
: Iron Butterfly Band Member Disappears After Working on Faster Than Light Communication. Is He In A Godda Da Vida?

Special Section:
Evolutionary Ethics
& Secular Morality

Interview: Living Within Limits & Limits on Living: Garrett Hardin on Ecology, Economy, and Ethics
by Frank Miele
Toward a Science of Morality: by Roger Bingham
In Our Own Self Image: The Evolution of Morality, Deception, and Religion
by William Irons
Prospects for Existence: Morality and Genetic Engineering
by John Hartung
Plants, Property & People: Should Indigenous Peoples Be Compensated For Their Medicinal Plant Knowledge?
by Alondra Oubre´
The Secular Sphinx: The Riddle of Ethics Without Religion
by Michael Shermer
Why Creationists Fear Evolution: An Introduction to
Bryan’s Last Speech
The Most Powerful Argument Against Evolution Ever Made: The Undelivered Speech to
the Jury in the Scopes’ Trial
by William Jennings Bryan

Forum

: Hollywood Skepticism; A “Spiritual “Experience; Never Been So Edified; Tipler Has Had It; Replace God — With What?; Replace God — With Nothing; Breasts Are For Babies Not Men; Breasts and Brains; What Women See in Men; Two Confusions — Daniel Dennett Responds; The E-Word; Gish Overrated, But Useful; Creationists Drown in Flood; The I.Q. Toll; Gould Against Affirmative Action?; The Thin Veneer of Civility; Hartung and Chait Are Both Right … and Wrong; Hartung Misinformed; Constructive Revisionism; In the Name of God, Nazi Style; Spinoza’s Stone; Leave God to the Philosophers; Velikovsky’s Place Clarified; Scientific Facelift; Shame on Skeptic; Why Hide Church Secrets?; Jacobsen Responds to Scientology; Miss Blood Speaks; No Liberal Conspiracy; Say What? Miele Replies
Dr. Tipler ≠ Dr. Asimov: Or How I Learned to Love the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Donate

SKEPTIC App

Whether at home or on the go, the SKEPTIC App is the easiest way to read your favorite articles. Within the app, users can purchase the current issue and back issues. Download the app today and get a 30-day free trial subscription.