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News

WACO: The Terms of the Debate: A Review of Waco: The Rules of Engagement, a Documentary Film
by Keith Jeffries
: “Experts” Declare UFOs Need Closer Look; What Happened to Madalyn Murray O’Hair?; Completing the Copernican Revolution
Four Days On Planet Randi: by Sheila Gibson
: Science Talk With Michael Shermer; Religion = Lower Blood Pressure

Special Section

Why Professors Believe Weird Things: Sex, Race, and the Trials of the New Left
by Norman Levitt
When Scholars Know Sin: Alternative Religions and Their Academic Supporters
by Stephen A. Kent
and Theresa Krebs
Memes: What Are They Good For?: A Critique of Memetic Approaches
to Information Processing
by James W. Polichak
Psychotherapy: The Snake Oil of the 90s?
by Tana Dineen
Facilitated Communication in America: Eight Years and Counting
by Brian J. Gorman

Forum

: Embracing Uncertainty; Corporate Consent; Confessions of a Former Psychic; When You’re Dead, You’re Dead; Follow the Money; Conspiracy Central; Wilson’s Evolution; Geller on Geller’s Powers
The Case for Yoda: by Andrew Harter
Graduate Record Exam: The GRE as Fringe Science; Another Look; Oldfield Responds; GRE Measures Test Taking Skill; Fake GRE Words?
Memetic Monotheism: by Aaron Lynch

Articles

’Twas Brillig…: The True Believers
by James Randi
Dumbth News from This is True: by Randy Cassingham
A Mind Out of Body: An Interview With Skeptical Parapsychologist Susan Blackmore
by Michael Shermer
Is God Dead?: Why Nietzsche and Time Magazine Were Wrong
by Michael Shermer

Reviews

The Follies of Forecasting: The Fortune Sellers: The Big Business of Buying and Selling Predictions, by William A. Sherden & John Wiley
reviewed by Matthew Ainsworth
The Functional Equivalent of God: Looking At the Cosmos
and Seeing God
The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God,
by Hugh Ross
reviewed by Victor J. Stenger
Ordinary People With a Not-So-Ordinary Problem: Alien Abductions,
by Peter Brookesmith
reviewed by Jeffrey B. King
The Other Forbidden Fruit: The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible,
by Jonathan Kirsch
reviewed by Tim Callahan
The God of Deep Waters: All About Adam and Eve: How We Came to Believe in Gods, Demons, Miracles & Magical Rites,
by Robert J. Gillooly
foreword by Ashley Montagu
reviewed by Tim Callahan
All That Glitters Isn’t Gold: The Gold of Exodus: The Discovery of the True Mount Sinai,
by Howard Blum
reviewed by Tim Callahan

Junior Skeptic

Bigfoot!: by Andrew Harter
Do You Believe In Magic?: A Junior Skeptic Tests The Quadro Gollball Finder
by Shoshana Cohen
Crystals: Junior Skeptic Explores the Real Magic Behind Crystals
by Amanda Chesworth
Junior Skeptic Book Review: How Things Work. The Nature Company Discoveries Library,
by Hugh Boss
reviewed by Victor J. Stenger

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