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Articles

’Twas Brillig…: May the Schwartz Be With You
by James Randi
Seeking a New Fulcrum: Parapsychology and the Need to Believe in a New Transcendence
by David Brin
Velikovsky at Fifty: Cultures in Collision on
the Fringes of Science
by David Morrison
The New Atlantis & the Dangers of Pseudohistory: by Garret G. Fagan and Chris Hale
The Pinker Instinct: An interview with Steven Pinker
by Michael Shermer

Junior Skeptic

Did We Go to the Moon?: Analyzing the Fox Network TV show “Conspiracy theory: Did We Land on the Moon?”
by Pat Linse
The Madman of Magic: How Preconceived Ideas
Can Fool You
by Bob Friedhoffer

Cover Story
Anthropology Wars:
Who Are We?

The Shadow of Caliban: An Introduction to the Tempestuous History of Anthropology by Frank Miele
Spin-Doctoring the Yąnomamö: Science as a Candle in the Darkness of the Anthropology Wars
by Michael Shermer
Requiem for a Controversy: Whatever Happened to
Margaret Mead? by Paul Shankman
Whence the “Noble Savage”: by Patrick Frank

News

Polls Show Paranormal Beliefs on the Rise, Evolution Belief Declines
Larry King Live, Media Integrity & Meeting the Psychic Challenge: by Brian Farha
Monkey Man Delusion Sweeps India: by Robert B. Bartholomew

Forum

Letters: Athena Stopped Time, Not God; Skeptical Tolerance; The Wise Men Were Astrologers; Sports in Black and White; Skeptical Emancipation; Diamond’s Warning; Skeptical Environmentalism
Creationism: Teaching Creationism Will Just Confuse Students; ID Creationists Twisted Logic; ID Creationists Have Proven Nothing
Special Section: Testing Mediums: Who is “pretending” — John Edward or James Randi?; Randi and the Usual Suspects; Randi Responds

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