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Reviews

Rust on the Hinges of History: How Neither the Irish Nor the Jews Saved Civilization: How the Irish Saved Civilization, and The Gifts of the Jews, by Thomas Cahill
reviewed by Tim Callahan
How to Misuse Darwin And (Almost) Get Away With It: Darwinian Myths: The Legends and Misuses of a Theory , by Edward Caudill
reviewed by Massimo Pigliucci

Forum

“When Scholars Know Sin”: Mea Culpa! Mea Culpa!: J. Gordon Melton Responds; Kent and Krebs’ Skepticism Crosses the Line: Anson Shupe Responds; Let the Scholar Who is Without Sin Cast the First Stone: James R. Lewis Responds; Clarifying Contentious Issues: A Rejoinder to Melton, Shupe, and Lewis by Stephen A. Kent and Theresa Krebs
Psychotherapy Debate: Confused By Dineen; Saintly Friends?; Preaching to the Skeptical Choir; There is No Baby in the Psychotherapy Bathwater: Dineen Responds
Facilitated Communication Defended: Rosemary Crossley Responds to Brian Gorman
Waco Skepticism and Counterskepticism: Gifford Responds to Jeffries

Junior Skeptic

Fortunetelling: How have people tried to predict the future?; Patterns in science & patterns in superstition; When is fortunetelling a bad thing?; How fortunetelling really works; Texas students test astrology predictions
by Pat Linse, Michael Gilmore, and Andrew Harter
The Madman of Magic: Mad Magical Science Performance; Madman of Science: Magic and Perception
by Bob Friedhoffer

News

: Faith-Medicine Connection Challenged; Millennial Fever Growing; Scientific Analysis of Kennewick Man to Begin; New Cult-Watch Group; Scientology’s Problems in Russia, Europe, & America; Bigfoot Busted by Buffs; Crop Circle Hoaxes; Psychic Scam Busted; Drug Dealer Says Psychic Told Him He Would Not Get Caught; Skeptics Enlightened & Entertained on False Memories, Witch Hunts, & Movie Monsters

Articles

’Twas Brillig…: An Address to Congressional Representatives at the Rayburn Building, Washington, DC, March 18th, 1999
by James Randi
Dumbth News from This is True: The Skeptics Society
Annual Dumbth Awards
by Randy Cassingham
Educashun: In the Trenches of
the Culture Wars
by Steven T. Asma
The Measure of a Woman: An Interview with Social Scientist Carol Tavris
by Michael Shermer
Fraud & Science: Reflections on the Baltimore Case
by Daniel J. Kevles
Complementary Alternative Medicine Boon or Boondoggle?: The Battle Between Allopathic Medical Care (TAM) system and the Complementary Alternative Medical Care (CAM) system
by Harry K. Ziel, M.D.
Christian Science & the Perversion of Quantum Physics: by Robert L. Miller

Special Section:
Influence

Selection for Credulity: A Biologist’s View of Belief
by Ken Parejko
Legitimatizing Psychology’s Prodigal Son: Re-considering Hypnosis
for the 21st Century
by Barry F. Seidman
Blue Smoke, Mirrors & Designer Science: How the Public Relations Industry Compromises Democracy
by Brian Siano
The Game of Influence: Understanding the Hidden Dynamics of Communication
by David A. Brenders
The Knowledge Filter: Reality Must Take Precedence
in the Search for Truth
by Michael Shermer

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