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Articles

’Twas Brillig…: Things Do Get Exciting
by James Randi
Gray Matters: The Origin of the “Gray”
Alien Archetype
by John Adams
Bill Gates Profits from Alien Technology: The True Meaning of Roswell
by Daryl Lease
A Skeptic Crashes in Roswell: by Nick Gerlich
15 Myths of Science: Lessons of Misconceptions and Misunderstandings from a Science Educator
by William F. McComas
Skepticism & Credulity: Finding the Balance Between Type I and Type II Errors
by Bill Wisdom

News

: Roswell Mystery Man Surfaces; Alien Copyrights?; Case Closed or Reopened?
Skeptics Celebrate Society’s 5th Anniversary at 1997 Caltech Conference
Skeptics 1996 Dumbth Award: by Randy Cassingham
: Fuzzy Thinking; End of Science?; Queer Science; The Disappearance of God; Skeptic Expands in Canada, Weird Things on Bestseller List; Skeptic Web Page Accolades; Scientists’ Beliefs in God; An Experimental Analysis of Therapeutic Touch by Emily Rosa; A Deathbed Confession by the Guru of Death & Dying; Turin Shroud May be Older Than Carbon-14 Tests Say; Darwin CD Web Site Correction; Australian Ark Trial Verdict Goes Against Evolutionist; The Dark Side of Oz; How to Induce a Near-Death Experience; Negative NDEs; Bad Writing Contest Winners; Freedom of Fortunetelling; Mexico’s Subway Virgin Mary; IHO Joins ASU in the Search for Human Origins; The Ultra-Orthodox Don’t Dig Archaeological Digs.

Reviews

Darwinism — Never Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll!: The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation, by Matt Ridley; Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, by Frans de Waal; Bonobo: the Forgotten Ape, by Frans de Waal & Frans Lanting; Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence, by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson
reviewed by Frank Miele
Keeping a Skeptical Eye on Extremists: American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists, and Others, by John George and Laird Wilcox; Crying Wolf: Hate Crime Hoaxes in America, by Laird Wilcox
reviewed by Frank Miele

Forum

: Self-Correcting Religion; True Memories of Abuse; Therapeutic Touch Clarification; JFK Conspiracy Not Impossible
Readers Respond to Ecology Issue: Income-to-Cost Debunks Simon; Calling the Kettle Black; Overhunting Hypothesis Myth
Juilian Simon Interview: A Triumph of Journalism; Skeptics’ Statist Slant; Privatize Everything; Miele Responds; Appalled by Lack of Skepticism; Hat and Horns — “It’s a Jersey Thing”; A More Appropriate Prop?
: Gish Responds to Critique;
Arthur Replies to Gish

Special Section:
The God Question

The Power of the Meme Meme: Religion as a Meme Suggests How a Science of Memetics Illuminates Human Evolution
by Susan Blackmore
O Ye of Little Faith: Cracking the Bible Code and Other “Proofs” of God
by Michael Shermer
The Annotated Gardner: An interview with Martin Gardner — founder of the Modern Skeptical Movement
by Michael Shermer
Einstein’s God: Just What Did Einstein
Believe About God?
by Michael R. Gilmore
The Question All Skeptics Are Asking: Do Recent Discoveries in Science Offer Evidence for the Existence of God? by Bernard J Leikind
Whatever Happened to Atheism?: by Lawrence Hyman
A New “Proof” of God Emerges: Does Induction Presume the Existence of the Christian God?
by Michael Martin
Graves, Graham & God: A Personal Odyssey Through
Rural American Religions
by Laurie Johansen
The Case Against Immortality: by Keith Augustine

Books in Brief

: Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality, by Jared Diamond; Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media, by Elaine Showalter; Dinosaur Lives: Unearthing an Evolutionary Saga, by John R. Horner; Beyond Science, by John Polkinghorne; Beyond the Cosmos: What Recent Discoveries in Astronomy and Physics Reveal About the Nature of God, by Hugh Ross; The Inflationary Universe, by Alan H. Guth; The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report, by Timothy Ferris; Skywatchers, Shamans, and Kings: Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power, by E.C. Krupp; After God: The Future of Religion, by Don Cupitt; Conjuring Science: Scientific Symbols and Cultural Meanings in American Life, by Christopher P. Toumey; Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality, by Carol P. Christ; Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition, by Stuart A. Vyse; Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium, by Carl Sagan; T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, by Walter Alvarez; The Dictionary of Metaphysical Healthcare, by Jack Raso

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