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Cover Story

Ufology, God-talk & Theology: An excerpt from The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs by Brenda Denzler

Articles

’Twas Brillig…: The Pigasus “Flying Pig” Awards for 2001 Plus: How to Talk to the Dead
by James Randi
Neo-Confederates at the Gate: The Rehabilitation of the Confederate Cause and the Distortion of History
by Christopher M. Centner
A.I. and the Return of the Krell Machine: Nanotechnology, the Singularity, and the Empty Planet Syndrome
by Steven B. Harris
The Attorney & the Shrink: Clarence Darrow, Sigmund Freud, and the Leopold and Loeb Trial
by Todd C. Riniolo

Reviews

Autonomous Agents & Free Lunches in the Modern Economy: A review of Investigations
by Stuart Kauffman
reviewed by Juan Carlos Marvizon
Reincarnation All Over Again: Evidence for reincarnation rests on backward reasoning. A review of Ian Stevenson’s Reincarnation and Biology reviewed by Leonard Angel
Witch Fever: A review of A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials, by Laurie Winn Carlson and Ivan R. Dee
reviewed by Matthew F. Ainsworth
I See Dead People: Review of The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death by Gary E. Schwartz, PhD reviewed by Marc Berard
Monotheism’s Legacy: A review of One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism, by Rodney Stark reviewed by Tim Callahan

News

Atlantis in Fantasyland: A Mickey Mouse Documentary about the Lost Continent by Ken Feder
2002 Emily Rosa Award
How a Skeptic Achieved “Enlightenment”: (and How This Phenomenon is Explained) by Joe Kirsch
Angel Beliefs on the Rise

Special Section:
Education

Science Education is No Guarantee of Skepticism: by W. Richard Walker, Steven J. Hoekstra, and Rodney J. Vogl
Pseudoscience at 30,000 Feet: Suggestology, Suggestopedia and Accelerated Language Learning
by L. Kirk Hagan
Social Influence & the Power of the Pyramid: by Barry Markovsky
and Shane R. Thye
Cognitive Catastrophes: How Smart People
Sabotage Their Thinking
by Phil Molé

Forum

Letters: The Mysterians; Race in Black and White; Anthropological Romanticism; Who Designed the Designer?; Show Me the Data; Magicians and Psychics; Gun Control as a Crazy Idea; Honestly Uncomfortable; Taken In by John Edward; Does Mindforce Exist?
Velikovsky Section: Velikovsky Check Mated; Velikovsky on the Fringes
Quotes: Who Said What?: They Never Said It;
They Also Said It
The Skeptical Environmentalist Forum: Pimental’s Environmentalism Shifty; Skeptical of the Skeptic of the Skeptical Environmentalist; Chartsmanship—Shifting the y axis; Lomborg True Skeptic; Lomborg’s Sloppy Research; Lomborg’s Selective Skepticism, Pimental’s Disappointing Response; Lomborg is Confused; Average Lifespan.

Junior Skeptic

Bad Medicine Issue: Psychic Surgery by Rouven Scheafer and Pat Linse
Snake Oil!: Anything goes — why is it
so hard to tell what works?
by Pat Linse
The Madman of Magic: Three Ways to Bend a Spoon
and a Classic Coin Vanish
by Bob Friedhoffer

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