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Skeptic Magazine, Volume 15 Number 3
Table of Contents
Psychiatry, Psychology
and the Mind
- The Top Ten Myths of Popular Psychology
- by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, John Ruscio, and Barry L. Beyerstein
- Prognosis Negative
-
Psychiatry and the Foibles of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual V (DSM-V)
by John Sorboro, M.D. - The Mind is Not a Kludge
- by Leonid Perlovsky
- The Psychic Industry
-
Selling the Trade of Trickery
to the Next Generation
by Ryan L.A. Shaffer
Columns
- The SkepDoc
-
A Skeptical Look
at Screening Tests
by Harriet Hall, M.D. - ’Twas Brillig…
-
How to Convince People
You Are Psychic by James Randi - Bad Language
-
Instant Language,
Just Add Software by Karen Stollznow
News
- Coma Man Media Hoax
- “Communication” by Coma Man is just “ideomotor” Ouija Board effect by Michael Shermer
- The Beverly Hills Battle for Evolution (Against Intelligent Design)
- Prothero/Shermer v. Meyer/Sternberg
Forum
- Letters
-
- Harriet Hall, M.D., the Skepdoc on Placebos Don’t Cure Anything;
- When Religions Go Bad;
- Don’t Throw Out Positive Psychology With the Bathwater;
-
Christianity and the
Southern Cross; - I Could Be Wrong About God, Could You?
Articles
- Swine Flu Vaccine Fearmongering
- by Harriet Hall, M.D., the Skepdoc
- Oh, the Horror! Why Skeptics Should Embrace the Supernatural in Fiction
- by Jason Colavito
-
The Trashing of
Margaret Mead -
How Derek Freeman Fooled Us All
by Paul Shankman - The Dangers of First Contact
-
The Moral Nature of Extraterrestrial Intelligence and a Contrarian Perspective on Altruism
by David Brin - Magic, Skepticism & Belief
-
An Empirical Study on What Magicians Believe About the Paranormal
by Peter M. Nardi
Reviews
- Tribute: Norman Jay Levitt 1943–2009
- by Michael Shermer
- Science: A Four Hundred Page Hissy-Fit
-
Science: A Four Thousand Year History by Patricia Fara
reviewed by Norman J. Levitt -
Drowning Toads by
20-something Naturalists - Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin’s South America, by Eric Simons. reviewed by Darryl E. Brock
- Science & Morality
- Render Unto Darwin: Philosophical Aspects of the Christian Right’s Crusade Against Science, by James H. Fetzer reviewed by Harriet Hall, M.D
Junior Skeptic
- The Cottingley Fairies
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- Fairies Photographed; The Girls Behind the Fairies: Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright; “I Go to See the Fairies”;
- The Plot Develops;
- The Cottingley Cameras;
- The Second Photo;
- The Next Three years;
- Edward Gardner;
- From Sherlock Holmes … to Fairies?; Conan Doyle; Doyle’s Spiritualism;
- The Last of the Fairy Photos;
- Media frenzy;
- The Aftermath; The World’s Greatest Hoax?; Should He Have known?;
- Psychic Silliness;
- Fed Up With Fairies;
- The Next 60 Years;
- Randi v. Fairies;
- Confessions;
- Frances and the Fairies;
- The Bottom Line.
by guest writers Jillian Baker and Jason Loxton with Daniel Loxton. Cover Art by Daniel Loxton. Art by Daniel Loxton and Jim WW Smith
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