Skeptic Magazine, Volume 5 Number 2
Table of Contents
Articles
- ’Twas Brillig…
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Things Do Get Exciting
- Gray Matters
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The Origin of the “Gray”
Alien Archetype
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Bill Gates Profits
from Alien Technology -
The True Meaning of Roswell
- A Skeptic Crashes in Roswell
- 15 Myths of Science
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Lessons of Misconceptions and Misunderstandings from a Science Educator
- Skepticism & Credulity
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Finding the Balance Between Type I and Type II Errors
News
- Roswell Mystery Man Surfaces; Alien Copyrights?; Case Closed or Reopened?
- Skeptics Celebrate Society’s 5th Anniversary at 1997 Caltech Conference
- Skeptics 1996 Dumbth Award
- Fuzzy Thinking; End of Science?; Queer Science; The Disappearance of God; Skeptic Expands in Canada, Weird Things on Bestseller List; Skeptic Web Page Accolades; Scientists’ Beliefs in God; An Experimental Analysis of Therapeutic Touch by Emily Rosa; A Deathbed Confession by the Guru of Death & Dying; Turin Shroud May be Older Than Carbon-14 Tests Say; Darwin CD Web Site Correction; Australian Ark Trial Verdict Goes Against Evolutionist; The Dark Side of Oz; How to Induce a Near-Death Experience; Negative NDEs; Bad Writing Contest Winners; Freedom of Fortunetelling; Mexico’s Subway Virgin Mary; IHO Joins ASU in the Search for Human Origins; The Ultra-Orthodox Don’t Dig Archaeological Digs.
Reviews
- Darwinism — Never Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll!
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation, by Matt Ridley; Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, by Frans de Waal; Bonobo: the Forgotten Ape, by Frans de Waal & Frans Lanting; Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence, by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson
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Keeping a Skeptical Eye
on Extremists -
American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists, and Others, by John George and Laird Wilcox; Crying Wolf: Hate Crime Hoaxes in America, by Laird Wilcox
Forum
- Self-Correcting Religion; True Memories of Abuse; Therapeutic Touch Clarification; JFK Conspiracy Not Impossible
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Readers Respond
to Ecology Issue - Income-to-Cost Debunks Simon; Calling the Kettle Black; Overhunting Hypothesis Myth
- Juilian Simon Interview
- A Triumph of Journalism; Skeptics’ Statist Slant; Privatize Everything; Miele Responds; Appalled by Lack of Skepticism; Hat and Horns — “It’s a Jersey Thing”; A More Appropriate Prop?
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Gish Responds to Critique;
Arthur Replies to Gish
Special Section:
The God Question
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The Power of
the Meme Meme -
Religion as a Meme Suggests How a Science of Memetics Illuminates Human Evolution
- O Ye of Little Faith
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Cracking the Bible Code and Other “Proofs” of God
- The Annotated Gardner
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An interview with Martin Gardner — founder of the Modern Skeptical Movement
- Einstein’s God
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Just What Did Einstein
Believe About God?
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The Question All
Skeptics Are Asking - Do Recent Discoveries in Science Offer Evidence for the Existence of God?
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Whatever Happened
to Atheism? -
A New “Proof”
of God Emerges -
Does Induction Presume the Existence of the Christian God?
- Graves, Graham & God
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A Personal Odyssey Through
Rural American Religions
- The Case Against Immortality
Books in Brief
- Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality, by Jared Diamond; Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media, by Elaine Showalter; Dinosaur Lives: Unearthing an Evolutionary Saga, by John R. Horner; Beyond Science, by John Polkinghorne; Beyond the Cosmos: What Recent Discoveries in Astronomy and Physics Reveal About the Nature of God, by Hugh Ross; The Inflationary Universe, by Alan H. Guth; The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report, by Timothy Ferris; Skywatchers, Shamans, and Kings: Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power, by E.C. Krupp; After God: The Future of Religion, by Don Cupitt; Conjuring Science: Scientific Symbols and Cultural Meanings in American Life, by Christopher P. Toumey; Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality, by Carol P. Christ; Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition, by Stuart A. Vyse; Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium, by Carl Sagan; T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, by Walter Alvarez; The Dictionary of Metaphysical Healthcare, by Jack Raso
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