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Cover Articles:
Can Anything Be Done
About Mass Shootings?

The Mass Murder Problem: by David Hillshafer
The Sandy Hook Effect: Preventing Highly Improbable Mass Murders Like That at Sandy Hook Elementary School is Impossible, But There Are Things We Can Do to Decrease Violence by Michael Shermer

Columns

The SkepDoc: Myths about Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
by Harriet Hall, M.D.
Bad Language: Climate Cold Reading: Meteorological Myths of Farmer’s Almanacs
by Karen Stollznow
’Twas Brillig…: A Skeptic in Court, Part I by James Randi

Junior Skeptic

Ghostbuster Girls!

An Uphill Battle;
Speaking with the Dead?;
Mary Sullivan;
Fight for the Right to Vote;
Police Pioneers;
Detective Sullivan v. Psychics;
Psychic Crackdown;
Unlikely Alliance;
Medicine and the Law: Feminist Trailblazers Battle Each Other;
Career Debunker;
The Work Goes On.

Written by Daniel Loxton. Cover by Daniel Loxton. Interior art by Daniel Loxton and Jim WW Smith.

Articles

The McStegosaur Myth: Creationists’ Claim that Live Stegosaurs Roamed Medieval Ireland by Phil Senter
The Devil and Don Decker: Rain Boy Poltergeist—Case Solved by Robert E. Bartholomew
and Joe Nickell
Cracked Earth and Crackpot Ideas: by Donald R. Prothero
The Making of a Modern Myth: Edward Leedskalnin’s Coral Castle
by Peter Hancock
The Sense of Being Stared At: An Empirical Test by Jeffrey M. Lohr, Thomas G. Adams, Michael Schwarz, and Robert E. Brady

Reviews

A Gentle Journey through the Truth in Rocks: A Review of The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood, by David R. Montgomery.
reviewed by Donald R. Prothero
Are We Really Alone?: A Review of Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet is Unique, by John Gribbin. reviewed by George Michael
The Evolution of Evolution: Three Reviews: Darwin’s Ghosts:The Secret History of Evolution, by Rebecca Stott. American Genesis: The Evolution Controversies From Scopes to Creation Science, by Jeffrey P. Moran. Darwin the Writer, by George Levine.
reviewed by Jason Rosenhouse
Foundation of a Founder of Evo-Devo: A Review of Once We All Had Gills: Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World, by Rudolf A. Raff.
reviewed by Donald R. Prothero

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