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Articles

’Twas Brillig…: The “High-Tech” Dowsing Stick Meets the Irresistible Challenge
by James Randi
A Walk Through Earth History: All Eight Thousand Years: A Trip to the Institute for Creation Research Museum of Creation and Earth History by Tom McIver
The Question all Skeptics are Asking: What is the Ant, Sir?
by Bernard Leikind

Forum

: Stimulating and Provocative; Critical and Self-Critical; Scant Flame of Reason; Where’s My Heroes?; Not Alone in Skepticism; Never This Excited; Beacon on the Horizon; Aura and Disorder; Journalistic Ethics and the Pioneer Fund; Sex Abuse; Velikovsky a Catastrophe; Velikovsky No Benefit; A Reminder to Us All; Schrödinger’s Cat and the Law; John Lennon Backwards; Dr. Tipler Meets Dr. Azimov?; Cannot Resist Comment; Bell Curve Stripped of Rhetoric; Jack Raso Responds
Church of Scientology Responds
Repressed Memory Reversal
In-Group v. Universal Morality Forum Discussion: Tending the Religious Garden; Before You Throw Out The Religious Bathwater; The Torah and the Yamamano — A Rabbi Replies to Hartung; Rotten Oranges in the Crate; Throw the Baby Out, Draw New Bathwater — Hartung Responds

Reviews

Hidden History, Hidden Agenda: The Hidden History of the Human Race, by Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson
reviewed by Bradley T. Lepper
Who Needs Satan?: The Origin of Satan,
by Elaine Pagels
reviewed by Clayton J. Drees
A Curious Dialogue with God: The Final Superstition: A Critical Evaluation of the Judeo-Christian Legacy, by Joseph L. Daleiden
reviewed by Tim Callahan

News

: 1996 Skeptic Conference on Evolutionary Psychology and Humanistic Ethics; $500,000 Psychic Challenge; Skeptic magazine website “4-Star”/Top 5%; Orange County Treasurer Used Astrologer, Psychic in Billion Dollar Disaster; Skeptics Learn the Meaning of Halloween; Skeptics Magic Castle Party a Magical Experience; Members of Solar Temple Order Found Dead; Presidential Candidate Reveals Creationist Belief; More Blows Against Repressed Memory Claims; Jehovah’s Witnesses Abandon End of World Prediction; 6-Year-Old Boy Named Reincarnated Buddhist Monk; Darwinian Politics; Solar Eclipse Still Retains Magical Awe; Clinton Says Roswell Crash Not a Spaceship; Talkshow Experts Get 3% Time; Pentagon Spends $20 Million in Psychic Research; Sony Funds ESP Lab; Freud Museum Exhibit Protest; Global Village Idiot Award; Carlos Castaneda’s Comeback

Special Section:
Evolutionary Psychology

The (Im)moral Animal: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Evolutionary Psychology and the Nature of Human Nature
by Frank Miele
Sociology as Alchemy: The Problem of Deleting Darwin from the Study of Society
by Frank Salter
Moving Beyond Just-So Stories: Evolutionary Psychology
as Protoscience
by Harmon R. Holcomb
How the Human Got its Spots: A Critical Analysis of the Just-So Stories of Evolutionary Psychology
by Henry D. Schlinger Jr.
The Imperial Animals 25 Years Later: An Interview with Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox
by Frank Miele
An Urchin in a Haystack: An interview with
Stephen Jay Gould
Gould’s Dangerous Idea: Contingency, Necessity, and
the Nature of History
by Michael Shermer
How Dangerous is Darwin?: by Michael Ruse

Books in Brief

: The Masters Revealed: Madame Blavatsky and the Myth of the Great White Lodge, by K. Paul Johnson; The Anomalist, edited and published by Patrick Huyghe and Dennis Stacy; Science Frontiers and Biological Anomalies, edited and compiled by William R. Corliss; Dinosaur in a Haystack, by Stephen Jay Gould; A History of Hypnotism, by Alan Gauld; Alternative Realities: The Paranormal, the Mystic and the Transcendent in Human Experience, by Leonard George; Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural, edited by Arthur Lehmann and James Myers; The Book Your Church Doesn’t Want You to Read, edited by Tim C. Leedom; Charles Darwin: Voyaging Volume 1 of a Bibliography, by Janet Browne

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