Skeptic Magazine, Volume 4 Number 4
Table of Contents
Articles
- In Memory of Carl Sagan 1934–1996
- ’Twas Brillig…
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How to Convince the Media You are Psychic & That They Need You: Sometimes a Scheme is Just So Delicious You Can Taste it!
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1996: Dumbth is
the Year that Was - Early Ghostbusters
- The Millennium is Coming!
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Cosmic Disaster in 2000
or Another Failed Prophecy? -
What Ever Happened
to n-rays? - Robert Wood’s 1904 n-ray Letter in Nature — a Classic in Skeptical History
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Creationism: Bad Science
or Immoral Pseudoscience?
Forum
- A Light in the Darkness; A Christian Skeptic; Atheists Decline into Oblivion; A Cultural Black Hole; Islamic Evolutionism; Impact Artifact; New Age is Not All Good News; The Best Win Out; Bravo Tipler!; Which Side Are You On?; Thank You Mr. Siano; Siano’s Fiction; Siano Not True Defender of PC; Siano Cracks on Bell Curve; Siano and Skeptic on Far Left ; My True Views on PC and IQ—Siano Responds; Religion Does Odd Things; No Morals in Morality; Ethical Inadequacies; Provisional Means Provisional
Reviews
- Darwinian Literary Science?
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Evolution and Literary Theory, by Joseph Carroll
- The Not-So-Amazing Kreskin
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A review of How to Be a Fake Kreskin, by The Amazing Kreskin
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Killing Clio Softly
with Their Siren Song -
The Killing of History: How a Discipline is Being Murdered by Literary Critics and Social Theorists, by Keith Windschuttle
News
- Darwin’s Debt; Pope Acquits Darwin; Militias American Style; Multiple Personalities; A Rebel With a Cause; Geller Tours America With New Book & Same Old Tricks; Relive the Civil War Through Regression Therapy; School Superintendent Glues Big Bang Pages in Science Text Together; If Glue Doesn’t Work Try Magic Markers or Razor Blades; Psychic Network Does Not Foresee Lawsuit; Pierre Salinger Becomes a Conspiracy Theorist; Taiwan Guru Busted For $70 Million in Fake Miracles; Mars Face Believers Stage Protest at JPL; Germany Squelches Scientology; Scientologist Purchases Assets of Cult Awareness Network; What is a Cult?; Another Recovered Memory Lawsuit Settled for $1 Million; Aromatherapy Smells Fishy; Errata Farrakhan; Afrocentrism Challenged in Milwaukee Schools; 1996 Ig Nobel Prizewinners; Extraterrestrial Highway
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Detecting the
“Human Energy Field” -
$742,000 Says Therapeutic
Touch is Bogus
Special Section:
Can History Be Science?
- History at the Crossroads
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Can History Be a Science?
Can it Afford Not to Be?
- Rebel With a Cause
- An interview with Frank Sulloway
- Can We Know What Really Happened in the Past?
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Vivid Historical Examples Encourage Students to Think Critically
- More Higher Superstitions: Knowledge, Knowingness & Reality
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One of the Authors of Higher Superstition Answers His Critics
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Where is Knowingness
to be Found? -
A Reply to Norman Levitt
Books in Brief
- Auschwitz, by Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan Van Pelt; History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past, by Edward T. Linethal and Tom Engelhardt (Eds.); The Disappearance of God: A Divine Mystery, by Richard Elliott Friedman; Seven Theories of Religion, by Daniel L. Pals; Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft, by Robin Briggs; Climbing Mount Improbable, by Richard Dawkins; Evolutionary Naturalism, by Michael Ruse; The Myth of the Framework: In Defense of Science and Rationality, by Karl R. Popper. M.A. Notturno (Editor); In Search of Nature, by Edward O. Wilson; Eros and Evolution: A Natural Philosophy of Sex, by Richard E. Michod; The Edge of the Unknown: 101 Things You Don’t Know About Science and No One Else Does Either, by James Trefil; This is True: Deputy Kills Man With Hammer and 500 Other Bizarre-but-True Stories and Headlines from the World’s Press, by Randy Cassingham; The Heretic’s Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues, by Charles Bufe (Editor); Carl Sagan and Immanuel Velikovsky, by Charles Ginenthal; Stephen J. Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky, by Dale Ann Pearlman (Editor)
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