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Articles

’Twas Brillig…: 20 Questions Revisited, or, How the Slick Police Psychics Fool the Bumbling Cops by James Randi
The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age by John Horgan
Dreams of the End of Science: It is the End of the Beginning for Science, Not the Beginning of the End
by John Casti
Heretic-Personality: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Nature of Heretical Science by Michael Shermer
Freud’s Follies: Psychoanalysis as Religion,
Cult, and Political Movement by Kevin MacDonald
Testing the Claims of Mesmerism: The First Scientific Investigation of the Paranormal Ever Conducted, Commissioned by King Louis XVI designed, conducted, & written
by Benjamin Franklin,
Antoine Lavoisier & Others
translated by
Charles & Danielle Salas
introduction by Michael Shermer
The Question All Skeptics are Asking: What Will Tomorrow Bring? by Bernard Leikind

Books in Brief

: Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin,
by Stephen Jay Gould; Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, by Michael J. Behe; The Night is Large: Collected Essays, by Martin Gardner; In Search of the Light: The Adventures of a Para-psychologist, by Susan Blackmore; Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, by Paul Edwards;
The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy, by Charles Officer and Jake Page; Feet of Clay: Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus, by Anthony Storr; Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness, by Daniel C. Dennett; How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now, by William H. Calvin; Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past, by Daniel L. Schacter
Audio Tapes: The World of Philosophy.
University Press Audiobooks.

News

: More Recognition for Skeptics’ website; Caltech Ranks #1; Conspiracy of Racism Nonexistent in Church Fires; Skeptics European Rep; Quantum Quackery; Psychic Math; Seancegate; Life on Mars: Should We Be Skeptical?; UFO Fragment Fake?; Man Jailed in Repressed Memory Case is Finally Free; Murder Plot Tied to UFOs; Computer Confessions; Evolution-Deniers Defeated; Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Secret Book Revealed on Internet; The Quadro Drama Continues; Whatever Happened to Madalyn Murray O’Hair?; Publisher’s New Age Gold
Dumbth News: Celebrate Crime; Cheap Husband; Phallic Symbols; The Dog Made Me Do It; Sorry Don Vicente; Don’t Forget to Write; What’s in a Name?

Special Section:
Conspiracy!

Farrakhanspiracy: Louis Farrakhan and the Paranoid Style in African-American Politics
by Harold Brackman
The End of the World & the New World Order: Black Helicopters, Hong Kong Gurkhas, Global Conspiracies,
and The Mark of the Beast by Tim Callahan
The Great Political Correctness Conspiracy Hoax: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thought Police
by Brian Siano
We the People?: Interview with Jerry Brown on Money, Politics, and Who Really Runs America
by Frank Miele

Forum

: Giants, Floods, & Footprints; McIver Missed the Ark; McIver Responds; Just the Way Folks Is; Learning is Wildcard of Behavior; Anthropology ≠ Ethics; Why Shouldness, Not How Should — Irons Responds; Indigenous People Obligated; Oubré Responds; Balls & Curves; Freedom Within Determinism; That’s the Way the Ball Bounces — Hartung Responds; Bad Science For Generation X; Velikovskian Wishful Thinking; A Tail by Any Other Name; Is Radar Just Another “Interpretation” of the World?; Olson Responds; The Leikind Principle Problem; SAP’s the Problem — Leikind Responds; Bryan Inconsistency; Abortion Issue Fraught With Difficulties; Utilitarian Bats and Balls; English Professors Powerless; Coercing Coercion; Skepticism a Christian Virtue; Nonscience v. Protoscience; Religious v. Secular Wars; A Witch Story

Reviews

Movie Reviews Extraterrestrial Hollywood: Aliens; Independence Day; Phenomenon
reviewed by Tom McDonough
Book Review: The Bell Curve Cracks — Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth,, by Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martin Sanchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss
reviewed by Brian Siano

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