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News

: AOL Poll on Prayer & Healing; Religion Prize Largest in the World; Mummies & Skeptics at Caltech
A Skeptic in the Trenches: A Skeptical Firewalk;
A Skeptical Mindbender
Pollen Analysis on Shroud of Turin
Noreen Renier’s Latest “Psychic Sleuth” Triumph: by Gary P. Posner
Creationists: “Five Year Plan” to “Remove” Radioisotope Dating

Science Meets Pseudoscience: The 1999 International Conference On Science and Consciousness by Bob Minick
News of the End of the World: www.endoftheworld.com; World Survives the End — Nostradamus Wrong Again
Something to Crow About: The Center for Millennial Studies Third Annual Conference Bats a Thousand story and photos by Sheila Gibson
A Millennial Contract: by Gary Wilson

Forum

: Donation Request; Knowledge Filters are Organic; Another Dracula Myth; Thou Shall Not Test the Lord; Death Is Not Funny; The Pain of Hypnosis; An Intelligence Officer Considers Conspiracy Theories
Evolution of Credulity Debate: Credulous of Credulity; Is Parejko Joking?; Parejko Responds
The God Forum Continues: God as a Defense Mechanism; Agnostic in Principle; Atheist in Practice
More On JFK: Posner and Gerlich No Skeptics; Lone Gunman? Maybe So!
FC Forum Continues: Still Awaiting Answers on FC: Gorman Responds to Crossley
PR Industry & Science Debate: Siano is Painfully Correct; A Well-Tempered PR Industry; Siano’s Leftist Bias; Brian Siano Replies

Junior Skeptic

Halloween: How to Make A Monster;
The History of Halloween;
Gallery of Useful Ghosts;
Fake Séance Stunts by Pat Linse, Michael Gilmore,
and Amanda Chesworth
Dealing With Fear: by Michael Gilmore
Ghost Fingerprints: by Amanda Chesworth
The Madman of Magic: How to Haunt a House by Bob Friedhoffer
Do it Yourself Alien Autopsy: by Emily & Linda Rosa

Reviews

Something Happened on the Way to the Millennium: End-Time Visions:
The Road to Armageddon?
by Richard Abanes
reviewed by Brian A. Wooters
Everything You Wanted to Know About the End of the World: The End of the World:
An Annotated Bibliography,
by Tom McIver
The Farce Beneath the FACE of Creationism: The FACE that Demonstrates the Farce of Evolution,
by Hank Hanegraaff,
foreword by Phillip E. Johnson
reviewed by Tim Callahan
For Hate or Money?: Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.,
by Gerald Posner
reviewed by Richard Morrock
Physician as Priest and Counselor: Medicine in the English Middle Ages,
by Faye Getz
reviewed by Harry K. Ziel, M.D.
Plucked in Space: Little Green Men,
Christopher Buckley
reviewed by David Pitt
The Fearful Angels of Our Nature: The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things,
by Barry Glassner
reviewed by Michael Shermer
The Big Med 10: Medicine’s 10 Greatest Discoveries,
by Meyer Friedman, M.D. and Gerald W. Friedland, M.D.
reviewed by Harry K. Ziel, M.D.
How Herbs Work: Physician’s Desk Reference
For Herbal Medicine
reviewed by Harry K. Ziel, M.D.

Articles

’Twas Brillig…: Randi Comments…
by James Randi
Dumbth News From This is True: by Randy Cassingham
Educashun: The Enlightenment
by Steven T. Asma
Sun, Stand Thou Still: Let Myth be Myth &
Science be Science
by Tim Callahan
The Making of A Freud Skeptic: An Interview with Frederick Crews
by Todd Dufresne
What’s Wrong with Extremism in Politics: The Tortoise and the Hare
Meet at the Millennium
by Lawrence Hyman

Special Section:
Millennium

That’s All Folks!: It’s the End of the World … Again
by Daryl Lease
Apocalypse Never: The Search for Immortality as Millennial Phenomena
by Alex Herd
The Alpha and the Omega: The Creation and the End in
Biblical Eschatology
by Tom McIver
The Fire That Will Cleanse: Millennial Meanings and
the End of the World
by Michael Shermer
(book excerpt)
Celestine Profits: A Critical Analysis of James Redfield and The Celestine Prophesy
by By Phil Molé

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