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A Climate of Belief: The claim that anthropogenic CO₂ is responsible for the current warming of Earth climate is scientifically insupportable because climate models are unreliable
by Patrick Frank
How We Know Global Warming is Real: The Science Behind
Human-induced Climate Change
by Tapio Schneider

Turning Around by 2020: How to solve the
global warming problem
by William Calvin
The Hydrogen Economy: Savior of humanity or
an economic black hole?
by Alice Friedemann

Skull Island, Canada: Could one of history’s most famous films have inspired two of our most enduring monster legends?
by Daniel Loxton

Letters: Altered States of Consciousness; Ape Language and Consciousness; Neuroscience Psychobabble; von Daniken Debunked
No Victory in the Textbook Wars: by Glenn Branch
SkepDoc’s Ill Tone: by RalphG.Walton, MD
SkepDoc Harriet Hall Replies

A Reconstruction of Houdini’s Famous Show Exposing Séance Fraud: by Steven E. Rivkin
Journalist Bites Reality!: How broadcast journalism is flawed in such a fundamental way that its utility as a tool for informing viewers is almost nil
by Steve Salerno
In Belief We Trust: Why anthropologists abandon skepticism when they hear claims about supernatural beliefs
by Craig T. Palmer, Kathryn Coe, and Reed L.Wadley

‘Twas Brillig…: Last Chance to Win the Million-Dollar Challenge; Magnetic Therapy
by James Randi
The SkepDoc: Detox Quackery:
from Footbaths to Fetishism
by Harriet Hall, M.D.

What the Fossils Say — In Spades!: Evolution: What the Fossils Say
and Why It Matters
by Donald R. Prothero
reviewed by Tim Callahan
What’s So Great About Dinesh D’Souza?: What’s So Great About Christianity by Dinesh D’Souza reviewed by Tim Callahan
Jackpot or Crackpot?: Cosmic Jackpot: Why Our Universe is Just Right for Life by Paul Davies
reviewed by Sid Deutsch
The Painful Elaboration of the Fatuous: Science v. Religion: Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution by Steve Fuller
reviewed by Norman Levitt
Steve Fuller Responds to Norman Levitt’s Review
Levitt Responds to Steve Fuller’s response

Dragons! written by Daniel Loxton; illustrations by Daniel Loxton: The Dragons of Babylon and the Evil Mother Tiamat; Egyptian Serpents; Greek Dragons; Dragons in the Bible; The World Serpent of the Norse; Chinese Dragons and the Magic of Dragon bones; Where Does the Idea of Dragons come from?; Fossil Dragons, Instinct, and Imagination