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The End of the World, Again?

2012 and Counting: A NASA Scientist Answers the
Top 20 Questions About 2012
by David Morrison
Will Physicists Destroy the World?: The Large Hadron Collider
and the Threats of Catastrophe
by Lloyd B.Lueptow
Physicists Will Not Destroy the World: Why We Need Not Worry
About the Large Hadron Collider
by Lawrence Krauss

Features

‘Twas Brillig…: A Magician in the Laboratory by James Randi
The SkepDoc: Chiropractic: A Little Physical Therapy, a Lot of Nonsense
by Harriet Hall, M.D.

News

The Problem of Bias, Even in Biology: by David Zeigler
Darwin in Texas: An Empirical Study on What Teachers of Evolution Believe by Raymond A. Eve and
Chawki Belhadi
A Governor’s Prayer for Rain: An Empirical Analysis
of a Supernatural Claim by Gary J. Whittenberger

Junior Skeptic

The Shocking Secret of Thetis Lake

What Dwells Below?
A Legend Is Born
A Face for the Monster
The Tegu Lizard
Monster from the Surf
More like a Pond
The Real Solution
Why Tell this Story at all?

Written by Daniel Loxton. Cover by Chris Wisnia, colored by Daniel Loxton. Art by Daniel Loxton and Jim WW Smith

Articles

The Coriolis Effect: Does water drain in different directions in the northern and southern hemispheres? by William D. Stansfield
Vaccines & Autism: A Deadly Manufactroversy: by Harriet Hall, M.D., The Skepdoc

Religion & Society

Atheism Rising: Intelligence, Science,
and the Decline of Belief by James Allan Cheyne
Why Religions Turn Oppressive: A Perspective from
Evolutionary Psychology
by Robert Kurzban
and Peter DeScioli
It’s Time to Teach the Controversy: Since Creationism Isn’t Going Away, Let’s Use it in the Classroom to Teach the Difference between Science and Pseudoscience
by Christopher Baum

Reviews

Gullible Instructing the Gullible: Annals of Gullibility: Why We Get Duped and How to Avoid it by Stephen Greenspan
reviewed by Michael E.O’Reilly
Philosophers, Creationists, and Serious Brainiacs: But is it Science? The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy (updated edition) edited by Robert T.Pennock and Michael Ruse
reviewed by Glenn Branch
Complexity Redux: Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell reviewed by James N. Gardner
Mr. Armstrong’s Jersey & Mr. Rogers’ Sweater: Supersense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable by Bruce M.Hood reviewed by Michael Shermer
The Six Degrees of Adolf Hitler: Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life by Albert-László Barabási reviewed by Andrew Shaindlin
Sensed Presences in Extreme Contexts: The Third Man Factor: The Secret of Survival in Extreme Environments by John Geiger reviewed by James Allan Cheyne

Forum

Letters: Homeopathic Lake Water; Human Inevitability?; Telling Lies About JFK; Preaching to Ourselves; Aliens v. Bigfoot
Historical Jesus
Randi on his Double-Blind Experiment
Positive Thinking Forum

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