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Cover Story
Evolution of Intelligence

Predicting Evolution: How Likely is it that Human-level Intelligence will Evolve Again?
by David Zeigler
The Chain of Accidents & the Rule of Law: The Role of Contingency & Necessity in the Evolution
of Higher Intelligence
by Michael Shermer

News

The Phoenix Lights Explained (Again): by Tony Ortega
Arthur C. Clarke: Visionary science-fiction author
by Gregory Benford
Socratic Skepticism: by Priscilla Sakezles
Near Death Experiences & the Medical Literature: by Mark Crislip
How Skeptics Confronted 9/11 Conspiracy Advocates: by John Ray

Forum

Letters: Universal Jackpots v. Intelligent Design; Reality Bites Journalist!; In Whose Belief Do We Trust?; Animal Rights & Research
More Words on Consciousness
Global Warming Forum

Expelled Exposed!

Ben Stein’s Blunder

In a new documentary film — Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed — the actor, game show host and financial columnist Ben Stein falls for the pseudoscience of
Intelligent Design
by Michael Shermer

The Facts about the “Expelled” Scientists in Expelled

Guillermo Gonzalez and
Iowa State University
by Lauri Lebo

Richard Sternberg and
the Smithsonian Institution
by Ed Brayton

Caroline Crocker and
George Mason University
by Carrie Sager and Andrea Bottaro

Expelled & the Trouble Ahead for American Science

by Kenneth R. Miller

Articles

The Myth of the Stages of Loss, Death & Grief: by Russell Friedman
and John W. James
Criminal Profiling: Granfalloons and Gobbledygook
by Brent Snook, Paul Gendreau, Craig Bennell, and Paul J.Taylor
The Curious Case of Freeman Dyson & the Paranormal: by Matthew Dentith

Features

’Twas Brillig…: Prayer and Pregnancy;
Shooting UFO Photos
by James Randi
The SkepDoc: Popular Medical Fallacies:
Ancient Wisdom; It Works for Me;
Natural is Good
by Harriet Hall, M.D.

Reviews

The Matrix of the Brain: A Mind of its Own:
How Your Brain Distorts & Deceives by Cordelia Fine
reviewed by David Ludden
Evolution in Our Genes: Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA by Daniel J. Fairbanks
reviewed by Tim Callahan
Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine by R.Barker Bausell
reviewed by Harriet Hall, M.D.
Gimme That Old-Time Irreligion: Irreligion:A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up by John Alan Paulos
reviewed by Norman Levitt
Between Scientism & Postmodernism: Darwinian Misadventures in the Humanities by Eugene Goodheart
reviewed by Norman Levitt
The Ghost in the Machine: The Spiritual Brain by Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary
reviewed by Douglas
Alexander Mesner
Science & Religion on the Rack: Thank God for Evolution!: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World by the Rev. Michael Dowd
reviewed by Michael J.Booker
CAM Scam: Suckers: How Alternative
Medicine Makes Fools of Us All
by Rose Shapiro
reviewed by Harriet Hall, M.D.
Fundamental Truths: Bondage of the Mind by R.D.Gold
reviewed by Tim Callahan

Junior Skeptic

The Crystal Skulls

An Era of Fakes
The Proof of “Provenance”
Why Fake a Skull?
F.A. Mitchell-Hedges — the “Real Indiana Jones” — Or a Faker?
The Search for Atlantis
the Lost City of Lubaantun
Hoax Skulls
An inspiration for the Original Cursed Skull Story
More Tall Tales
The Bottom Line

written by Daniel Loxton;
illustrations by Daniel Loxton
and Jim WW Smith

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