The Skeptics Society & Skeptic magazine

Features

’Twas Brillig…

John of God: ABC’s Primetime Live Special About A Brazilian “Healer” Falls Far Short of Investigative Journalism
by James Randi

Demon Haunted Times

God Offers Human Race on eBay
by Brandon Muller

Junior Skeptic

Six Slick Tricks
& the Science Behind Them

The Antigravity Tube
The Dissolving Coin
The Mystical Marble
How To Force A Card
Will the Stars Match?
The Obedient Wand
by the Madman of Magic,
Bob Friedhoffer

News

The Da Vinci Code Cult

A Critical Look at Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code
by Robert Sheaffer

Ernst Mayr Tribute:
1904–2005

by Frank J. Sulloway

Gender Differences
& the 80-Hour Work Week

by Susan Carol Losh

Testing Prayer

by E. J. Behrman

Darwin & Design Conference

by Robert Camp

Philosopher Jacques Derrida 1930–2004

by L. Kirk Hagen

Forum

Letters

Collapse Predicted in 1974; Hormone Replacement Myths and The Real Truth About Cholesterol; Intelligent Design and Polytheism

Race & Sex

Race and Race Differences are Real; Sarich and Miele Respond to Lemme

Science & the Bush Administration

Neutral letters; Positive letters; Negative Letters; Krider Responds

Nature-Nurture Forum

Blind Men with An Elephant: Nature and Nurture Revisited As Blank Snakes; Genetic Preparedness Does Not Equal Genetic Determinism; Nurturing Nature; The Triplets of Nature and Nurture

Special Section

The Dream World of William Dembski’s Creationism

by Mark Perakh

Creationism’s Holy Grail

The Intelligent Design of a Peer-Reviewed Paper
by Robert Weitzel

Articles

Close Encounters of
the Facial Kind

Are UFO Alien Faces an Inborn Facial Recognition Template?
by Frederick V. Malmstrom

Tilting Pictures
& Fruitless Pursuits

How to Test for A Supernatural Occurrence
by Sam Shuster

The Truth Is Out There … Way Out There

Three Major Patterns of Conspiratorial Thinking
by George Case

How the Human
Got its Mind

Debunking the Last Great Myth
in Psychology
by Henry D. Schlinger

Reviews

Required Reading

The Skeptic’s Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions & Dangerous Delusions by Robert Todd.
reviewed by William Harwood

Super Size This!

The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos. reviewed by Patrick Johnson

Faith, Facts & the Resurrection of Jesus

The Resurrection of the Son of God by N. T. Wright. reviewed by Carl Stecher

The Key to the Universe

The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose. reviewed by Michael Shermer

In the Blink of An Eye

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell. reviewed by Michael Shermer

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Inventing Superstition: From the Hippocratics to the Christians by Dale B. Martin. reviewed by Michael Shermer

When Death Comes Knockin’

Who Ya Gonna Call? Facing Death: Epicurus and His Critics by James Warren. reviewed by David Voron

Seek & Ye Shall Find

The God Code: The Secret of Our Past, the Promise of Our Future by Gregg Braden. reviewed by Harriet Hall

The Great Race Debate

The Reality of Human Differences by Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele.
Review I:
Race: No Such Thing
… or is There? by Paul R. Gross Review II:
The Adaptionist Yardstick
Rethinking the Social Implications of Sarich’s and Miele’s Fast-Track Micro-Evolution. by Alondra Oubré