Skeptic Magazine, Volume 6 Number 2
Table of Contents
Articles
- ’Twas Brillig…
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A Deadly
Intellectual Atmosphere
- Coach Potatoes
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The Latest Self-Help Diet
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The Skeptics Society
1997 Dumbth Award -
For the Dumbest Thing Anyone Did in 1997
- Skeptic Lite
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Genesis Revisited:
A Scientific Creation Story - The “Emily Event”
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Emily Rosa and the Therapeutic Touch Wars
Special Section:
Taking God Seriously
- Deepak’s Dangerous Dogmas
- Karl Popper on God
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The Lost Interview
- A Case for God
- Taking Creationism Seriously
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Are Skeptics Answering Creationists Effectively?
- A Case Against God
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Science and the Falsifiability Question in Theology
- Do You Believe in God?
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The Difference in Your Answer & the Difference it Makes
- The Truth is Out There & Ray Hyman Wants to Find it
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An Interview with a Co-Founder of Modern Skepticism
Forum
- Thanks Again, Carl; The Prostitution Debate; JFK … and David Cole?; Kudos to Miele; Alien Hoax in New Zealand; Breeding Spoons and Dying Candelsticks; If There Was No One Around to Hear the Big Bang Did it Make a Noise?; Superstition in Our Skies; Amazed, Amused, and Angered; When The Worm Turns; The Evidence for God; The Anti-Meme Meme; Another Omega; More JFK Mythology Exposed
- E.O. Wilson
- Wilson’s Red Flag; Sex and Procreation; Wilson’s Free Will
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Van Praagh &
Grief Counseling -
Grief and Van Praagh;
Growing With Grief -
Drug Policy, Journalism
& Ideologies - Drug Policy No Goode; Special Pleading v. Skepticism; Goode Responds; Objectivity Still Worth Having; The Arbitrary Belief Module; Environmental Ideologies
News
- The Skeptics Society Hosts a Sold-Out Caltech Conference
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God, Religion & Myths: Exploring the Human Need to Believe
- Skepticism in Prime-Time
- 5-Fold Increase in Skeptic’s Worldwide Distribution; Supreme Court Slams “Junk Science”; Evolution Happened — Deal With It, Says NAS; John Casti Speaks at Caltech on Artificial Intelligence; USA Today Survey Shows Beliefs in Weird Things on the Rise; Alternative Medicine Used by 40% of Americans; Therapeutic Touch for Horses?; Faith Healing Kills, Study Shows; Catholics Skeptical of Weeping Virgin Mary … Sort of; Hemingway Haunts Havana; Abduction Watch; Virgin Mary Sited in Cake; Shermer Performs Psychic Reading for ABC
Reviews
- Designing the Designer
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God: The Evidence, by Patrick Glynn
- Blind Faith
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Mind Games: Exposing Today’s Psychics, Frauds & False Spiritual Phenomenon, by André Kole and Jerry MacGregor
Books in Brief
- Journey Through the Ice Age
- Finding Enlightenment: Ramtha’s School of Ancient Wisdom
- Eye to Eye
- by Frans Lanting Chistine Eckstrom (Ed.)
- In Brief
- Star Trek on the Brain: Alien Minds, Human Minds, by Robert Sekuler and Randolph Blake; End-Time Visions: The Road to Armageddon? by Richard Abanes; Thinking Logically: A Study of Common Fallacies, by Brant Abrahamson and Fred Smith; Against the Multicultural Agenda: A Critical Thinking Alternative, by Yehudi O. Webster; Randomness, by Deborah J. Bennett; Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy, by Robert Almeder; Encounters With the Paranormal: Science, Knowledge, and Belief, by Kendrick Frazier (Ed.); Carlos Castaneda, Academic Opportunism and the Psychedelic Sixties, by Jay Courtney Fikes; The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size, by Tor Norretranders; Bringing the War Home, by William Thomas; The Psychic Mafia, by M. Lamar Keene as told to Allen Spraggett
Junior Skeptic
- TT and Me
- Let ’em Roll!
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Are Gamblers Lucky?
- Science Surfing
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Web Sites That Make The Grade
- Toying Around with Science
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The Physics Behind Toys and Gags; Magic Tricks, Science Facts; More Magic Tricks, Science Facts; Physics Lab in a Housewares Store; Physics Lab in a Hardware Store; Physics Lab in the Home; Forces, Motion, and Energy; Magic and Perception: The Art and Science of Fooling the Senses
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