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Varieties of Unbelief

The Greatest Story Ever Garbled: A critique of “The Greatest Story Ever Told” — Part I of the Internet feature Zeitgeist
by Tim Callahan
The New Atheism & the New Anti-Atheism: The Stealth Religion
of David Sloan Wilson
by Konrad Talmont-Kaminski

Features

’Twas Brillig…: Hot Feet and Cool Reason — Investigating the Firewalking Phenomenon by James Randi
The SkepDoc: Homeopathy: Still Crazy
After All These Years
by Harriet Hall, M.D.

News

How We Staged the Morristown UFO Hoax: by Chris Russo and Joe Rudy
Orgone Energy v. the Scientific Method: How to Test a
Paranormal Phenomenon by Andy Kaiser
Crazy Ideas 101: How to Teach Skeptical Thinking by Scott Calvin
“Reasons To Believe” … or Not: Michael Shermer v.Hugh Ross/Fazale Rana: Can Creationism Be a Testable Science? by Gary J.Whittenberger

Forum

Letters: Average Narcissist; JFK Assassination; Blinded by Double Blind; One People; Shareholders; Skepticism or Ridicule?;
Psychic Ponzi
Alternative Medicine: Meat Eating Myths; Gulf War Illness, Real or Myth;
The SkepDoc Responds
Global Warming Forum: Four Global Warming Questions; Beware of Global Warming Hysteria; Science Not Democratic; Whittenberger Responds

Articles

Empirical Kanzi: The Ape Language
Controversy Revisited by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Duane Rumbaugh and William M. Fields
Criminal Injustice: The Flaws and Fallacies of the American Justice System
by Steve Salerno
An Interview with Matt Ridley: Darwin in the Boardroom: Evolution, Economics, and the Nature-Nurture Debate by Michael Shermer
Browsing for Love in All the Wrong Places: Research does not show a difference between Internet matchmaking methods and traditional dating by Aimee E. King, Deena Austin-Oden, and Jeffrey M.Lohr
The Placebo Effect: by Harriet Hall, MD, The Skepdoc

Reviews

Return of the Ether: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek
reviewed by Sid Deutsch
The Science of Love: Decoding Love: Why It Takes Twelve Frogs to Find a Prince, and Other Revelations from the Science of Attraction by Andrew Trees
reviewed by P.J. Rooks
The Soul of the Gaps: Irreducible Mind:Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century by Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, and Bruce Greyson reviewed by Sebastian Dieguez
The Chess Master & the Checkers Players: The Curious Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer. A film review of The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer by David Grubin reviewed by Michael Shermer

Junior Skeptic

Everything I Needed to Know About Skepticism I Learned from Scooby-Doo

A paranormal claim is just another mystery to be solved;
No matter how crazy the claim, someone will always believe it;
Seeing does not mean believing;
Skepticism can be fun;
People hoax for all kinds of reasons;
Witnesses and researchers can be in on the hoax;
Hoaxers are often motivated by money;
Even hundreds of the same kind of mystery can all turn out to be false;
Even a preposterous real-world explanation is more likely than a supernatural guess.

by Daniel Loxton. Cover by Daniel Loxton. Art by Daniel Loxton, Jim WW Smith, and courtesy of Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. Entertainment.

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