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Alien Astronauts, Part II written by Daniel Loxton; illustrations by Daniel Loxton and Jim WW Smith: Ancient Jet Planes?; Miraculous Delhi Pillar; How were the Easter Island Statues Carved, Moved and Raised?; Nazca Lines — Drawings of the Gods?; Mighty Pyramids; Stonehenge and Merlin’s Magic; Did Aliens Mate with Humans?; Ancient Astronauts and Racist Assumptions; Is Von Däniken Serious?; The Bottom Line

Forum

Letters: Skeptical of the Autism-Vaccination Skeptics; Psychiatry Redux; First-Hand Opinion on Second Hand Smoke; Something From Nothing
Animal Research Wars: by P. Michael Conn
& JamesV. Parker

Articles

Aping Language: A skeptical analysis of the evidence for nonhuman primate language
by Clive Wynne
The Myth of the Mozart Effect: by Will Dowd
A New Mythology: Ancient Astronauts,
Lost Civilizations &
the New Age Paradigm
by Tim Callahan
Consciousness is Nothing But a Word: by Henry D. Schlinger
Franklin’s Electric Kite Experiment: Did Benjamin Franklin really fly a kite to prove that lightning and static electricity were one and the same,or was it all just a hoax?
by William D. Stansfield

Features

’Twas Brillig…: Phenomenon Examined
by James Randi
The SkepDoc: Ultrasound, Fish Oil & Ear Candles
by Harriet Hall, M.D.

Reviews

Not Very Comforting

Don’t Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking by Thomas Kida
reviewed by David Ludden

The Shape of the Earth — Flat or Hollow?

Flat Earth:The History of an Infamous Idea by Christine Garwood

Hollow Earth:The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth’s Surface by David Standish.

reviewed by Donald Simanek

Here Be Monsters

Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World’s Most Elusive Creatures by Benjamin Radford & Joe Nickell
reviewed by Daniel Loxton

How The Medical Mind Works

How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman reviewed by Harriet Hall, M.D.

Two Views, One Reality

Darwin and Intelligent Design
by Francisco Ayala

Living with Darwin: Evolution,
Design and the Future of Faith by Philip Kitcher

reviewed by Jason Rosenhouse

No Child Left Behind

The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering by Michael J. Sandel
reviewed by Norman Levitt

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