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Articles

’Twas Brillig…: A Deadly
Intellectual Atmosphere
by James Randi
Coach Potatoes: The Latest Self-Help Diet
by Daryl Lease
The Skeptics Society 1997 Dumbth Award: For the Dumbest Thing Anyone Did in 1997
by Randy Cassingham
Skeptic Lite: Genesis Revisited:
A Scientific Creation Story
The “Emily Event”: Emily Rosa and the Therapeutic Touch Wars
by Larry Sarner

Special Section:
Taking God Seriously

Deepak’s Dangerous Dogmas: by Phil Molé
Karl Popper on God: The Lost Interview
by Edward Zerin
A Case for God: by Bruce Mazet
Taking Creationism Seriously: Are Skeptics Answering Creationists Effectively?
by Taner Edis
A Case Against God: Science and the Falsifiability Question in Theology
by Massimo Pigliucci
Do You Believe in God?: The Difference in Your Answer & the Difference it Makes
by Michael Shermer
The Truth is Out There & Ray Hyman Wants to Find it: An Interview with a Co-Founder of Modern Skepticism
by Michael Shermer

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
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: God, Religion & Myths: Exploring the Human Need to Believe
by Lee Traynor
Skepticism in Prime-Time: by S. Elizabeth Bird
: 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: God: The Evidence, by Patrick Glynn
reviewed by Jeffrey Shallit
Blind Faith: Mind Games: Exposing Today’s Psychics, Frauds & False Spiritual Phenomenon, by André Kole and Jerry MacGregor
reviewed by Jamy Ian Swiss

Books in Brief

Journey Through the Ice Age: by Paul G. Bahn and Jean Vertut
Finding Enlightenment: Ramtha’s School of Ancient Wisdom: by J. Gordon Melton
Eye to Eye: by Frans Lanting Chistine Eckstrom (Ed.) reviewed by Frank Miele
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: by Emily Rosa
Let ’em Roll!: Are Gamblers Lucky?
by Erika Antisdale
Science Surfing: Web Sites That Make The Grade
by Cathie Walker and Sheri Kinney
Toying Around with Science: 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
by Bob Friedhoffer

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