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08-09-17

In this week’s eSkeptic, we link to Jonathan Haidt’s article on science and politics entitled What Makes People Vote Republican? on Edge.org, with commentaries on it by Michael Shermer and others.


08-09-10

In this week’s eSkeptic, Michael Shermer shares his stories after a two-week tour of Australia sponsored by the Australian government for their annual National Science Week.


08-09-03

In this week’s eSkeptic, we are pleased to announce its Fall season of the Skeptics Distinguished Lecture Series at Caltech. This continues the fifteen-year-long series, presenting over 200 lectures by some of the most distinguished experts in the world.


08-08-27

In this week’s eSkeptic, we present ABC Radio National’s show All in the Mind, a debate recorded for National Science Week in Australia, between Dr. Michael Shermer and shareholder activist and Crikey founder, Stephen Mayne.


08-08-20

In this week’s eSkeptic, Mark Perakh discusses how Intelligent Design proponents created the myth that bacterial flagella look like man-made machines.


08-08-15

In this week’s eSkeptic, Michael Shermer responds to the recently claimed Bigfoot find. Plus, we present a brief history of Bigfoot summarized from Daniel Loxton’s two Junior Skeptic issues bound into Skeptic magazines Vol 11 No 2 and Vol 11 No 3.


08-08-13

In this week’s eSkeptic, Sebastian Dieguez presents a rejoinder to Mark Crislip’s “Near Death Experiences & the Medical Literature” (eSkeptic June 18th, 2008), calling for a redefinition of NDEs.


08-08-06

In this week’s eSkeptic, we present the third in a series of conversations presented by the John Templeton Foundation. The conversation explores the BIG Questions (the theme of this year’s Skeptics Society Conference at Caltech), among which is “Does science make belief in God obsolete?”.


08-07-30

In this week’s eSkeptic, Michael Shermer postulates a “Type 1” civilization in which exists a “globalism that includes worldwide wireless internet access, with all knowledge digitized and available to everyone…


08-07-23

In this week’s eSkeptic, we announce our 2008 Conference at Caltech: ORIGINS & the BIG Questions.


08-07-16

In this week’s eSkeptic, Paul Gross reviews Lauri Lebo’s The Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America.


08-07-09

In this week’s eSkeptic, Harriet Hall, MD reviews Pope Brock’s Charlatan. America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam.


08-07-02

In this week’s eSkeptic, Michael Shermer celebrates the 150th anniversary of the 1858 discovery of natural selection by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.


08-06-25

In this week’s eSkeptic, Priscilla Sakezles discusses the famous words most often attributed to Socrates, “All I know is that I know nothing.” claiming that it is indeed a misquote.


08-06-18

In this week’s eSkeptic, infectious Disease doctor Mark Crislip dissects some medical research on near death experiences.


08-06-11

In this week’s eSkeptic, we present a link to a free, beautifully produced booklet on the question “Does science make belief in God obsolete?” published by the Templeton Foundation and edited by Michael Shermer.


08-06-04

In this week’s eSkeptic, John Ray celebrates the triumph of skepticism over 9/11 conspiracy theorists.


08-05-28

In this week’s eSkeptic, Daniel Loxton digs into a protest campaign that is fighting to block enforcement of Canada’s purity, safety, and labeling laws for natural health products — and discovers a shadowy business interest behind the faux consumer watchdog site organizing those protests.


08-05-21

In this week’s eSkeptic, Tony Ortega debunks the Phoenix Lights: the mysterious “vee” configuration that people reported seeing flying over the state of Arizona in March 1997.


08-05-14

In this week’s eSkeptic, Norman Levitt reviews John Alan Paulos’ book entitled Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up.


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