The Skeptics Society & Skeptic magazine

Articles

’Twas Brillig…

Another Farce of New Age Technology Bites the Dust
by James Randi

Dumbth News from
This is True

by Randy Cassingham

The Evil Eye &
Its Influence on Medicine &
Social Customs

by George M. Bohigian, M.D.

Talking Twaddle
With the Dead

The Tragedy of Death —
The Farce of James Van Praagh
by Michael Shermer

Talking to the Living Loved Ones of the Dearly Departed

A Commentary on
a Bestselling Author
by Gary P. Posner

Forum

Best Skeptic Ever; More Subscribers Coming; Skeptic a Relief in Religion-Mad America; Open Debate is Refreshing; The Princess & the Poet; Suppose Pythagoras Did Steal Pi?; Gravity Explained by Relativity; Put Skeptic in Libraries; News Not Fit to Print; Magnetic Healing; Jaroff Responds; Facts are Facts; Numbers From Nowhere; The Real Heroes of Mars Effect; Wise Use Pseudoskepticism; Overactive God Modules; The Message & the Messenger

JFK

JFK Judgment in Dallas; Posner’s Questionable Scholarship; JFK Truth or Falsehood?; JFK Conspiracy Deserves More; Zapruder Revisionism; Nick Gerlich Responds

Crazy Making

The DSM is not Making Us Crazy; More Making Crazy

God/No God

Universe’s Cause Indetermined; Skeptic ≠ Atheist; Rand as a Secular Rationalist; There Was No Jesus

Mead/Freeman

Person/Paradigm?; Mead & Castaneda; Orwellian Determinism

Militias

Militias and Skeptics; Militias & the Draft; Why Militias — Part II

Reviews

Founder of the Skeptical, Scientific Twentieth Century

Huxley: From Devil’s Disciple to Evolution’s High Priest,
by Adrian Desmond
reviewed by Donald R. Prothero

Bigger Than Life
Even in Death

Houdini! The Career of Erich Weiss, by Ken Silverman and Notes to Houdini!, by Ken Silverman
reviewed by Jamy Ian Swiss

A Slave To Facts

The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440–1870,
by Hugh Thomas by Christopher Malloy

News

Kids Rule

9-Year Old Emily Rosa Debunks Therapeutic Touch In JAMA; Junior Skeptic for Real; Lisa Simpson Continues Reading Junior Skeptic Magazine

You Must Disclose House Hauntings!; The End of the World … Again; Millennial Stew; NASA Reveals “Face” on Mars Another Mountain; Banachek Entertainer of Year; K.C. Cole Lecture

Cosmologists

Stephen Hawking at Caltech; Stephen Hawking v. Frank Tipler

Holocaust
Revisionism Update

David Cole Recants/David Irving Says Churchill Knew About Pearl Harbor

More Doubts on Recovered Memory Therapy; Bible Banned Book; Church-State Wall Develops Crack; Sagan Suit Dropped; Internet Science Updates; Nonbelievers in Majority?; Plato on Prozac; Revising Native American History; Realtors Beware: Men and Directions; The Cryptozoologist; Aliens, Ghosts… & Earthquakes?; Ghost to Whip Skeptic Wankers Arses; 1997 Darwin Awards; UPN Alien Abduction Film Hoax; The Dangers of Acupuncture; Psychic Friends Network Goes Bankrupt — They Didn’t See it Coming; Freeman Clarification

Special Section:
Science & Society

Objectivity in Journalism Should We Be Skeptical?

by Alexandra Kitty

A Skeptic’s Guide to
The Drug Policy Debate

by Erich Goode

The GRE as Fringe Science

The Politics and Economics of the Graduate Record Examination by Kenneth Oldfield

The Free Exercise of Pseudoscience

A Quirk in the Supreme Court’s Free Exercise of Religion Jurisprudence Could Allow Purveyors of Pseudoscience to Evade Criminal Fraud Prosecutions by Michael Fried

The Ionian Instauration

An Interview with E.O. Wilson on His Latest Controversial Book: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
by Frank Miele

Unity, Diversity & Evolution

A Review of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, by E.O. Wilson
by Brian Siano

Books in Brief

Instinct and Revelation

Reflections on the Origins of Numinous Perception,
by Alondra Y. Oubré
by Frank Miele

The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation, by John L. Casti; The Ultimate Einstein, by Donald Goldsmith with Robert Libbon; The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty, by K.C. Cole; Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century, by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles; The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup, by Philip Klass; Manufacturing Victims: What the Psychology Industry is doing to People, by Tana Dineen; Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion, by Edward Larson; Evolution in Mind: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology, by Henry Plotkin; The Quickening: Today’s Trends, Tomorrow’s World, by Art Bell; Chemical Sensitivity: The Truth About Environmental Illness, by Stephen Barrett, M.D.; Defending the Faith: A Beginner’s Guide to Cults and New Religions, by Richard Abanes; Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War, by Hugh Gusterson; Heavenly Knowledge: An Astrophysicist Seeks Wisdom in the Stars, by Fiorella Terenzi; Richard Feynman: A Life in Science, by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin; The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist, by Richard P. Feynman