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Humor

Genetic Park: Engineered Crops Run Amok on a Tycoon’s Island: by Kyle Sanders

Reviews

The Forces of Inequality: A review of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty.
reviewed by Burt Stillar
Atheist Spirituality Hits the Big Time: A review of Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion,
by Sam Harris
reviewed by Sigfried Gold

Junior Skeptic

Flat Earth?! The Convoluted Story of a Flatly Mistaken Notion

Imagine if someone were to ask you, “What shape is the Earth?” It’s likely you’d answer “round,” or describe our world as a ball (or globe or sphere) in space. I would too! But what if you met someone who insisted that the Earth is nothing like a ball, but instead is as flat as a pancake? How could they possibly defend such a peculiar notion? And are there really people who believe this?

by Daniel Loxton

Cover Articles

: ON THE COVER: The Garden of Eat’n’. Illustration by Ástor Alexander.
What Science Knows (and Does Not Know) About Diet and Nutrition: by Harriet Hall, M.D.
An Evolutionary and Functional Perspective on Chronic Disease: by Kenneth W. Krause

Columns

The SkepDoc: Decoding Food Labels
by Harriet Hall, M.D.
Bad Language: A Blessing in Disguise
by Karen Stollznow
The Gadfly: Does AA Work?
by Carol Tavris

Articles

“Chemtrail” Fail: Are Contrails Really Toxic Chemicals Sprayed by a Secret Conspiracy? by Donald R. Prothero
A Rare and Beautiful Thing: by Daniel Loxton
A Whole Lot of Nothing: Tales of a Cosmological Argument by Jérémie Harris
Thinking Critically About Psychology’s Classic Studies: Revisiting Studies by Milgram, Harlow, Mischel, Sherif and Others and What They Mean Today
by Carol Tavris
How to Lie with Statistics: by Gary Smith

Special Section:
Changing Minds

The Core Conflict Between Creationism and Evolution: Do Unique Definitions of “Science” and “Proof” Allow Creationists to Disregard Evidence of Evolution? by Ralph M. Barnes
Why is Critical Thinking So Hard to Teach?: by Kevin McCaffree and
Anondah Saide

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