Skeptic Magazine, Volume 20 Number 3
Table of Contents
Reviews
- What Good Can We Do?
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A Review of The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically, by Peter Singer.
- Is the Universe Mathematical?
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A review of Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, by Max Tegmark.
- The Times, They are a Changin’
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A Review of Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions, by Phil Zuckerman.
- Food Faiths and Diet Religions
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A Review of The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat, by Alan Levinovitz.
- Scientology’s Worst Abuses Against a Journalist Revealed
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A Review of The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology Tried to Destroy Paulette Cooper, by Tony Ortega.
Junior Skeptic
- Bat-People On the Moon!
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In this issue we’ll be talking about bat-people. And sheep. And unicorns. On the Moon! What’s that you say? The Moon obviously can’t have unicorns because it doesn’t even have air to breathe? Well, sure, that’s a good point. But what if I told you the world’s most popular newspaper once announced the discovery of these and many other fantastical lunar lifeforms? Moreover, people believed those claims. How on Earth were New York City newspaper readers taken in by a far-fetched fantasy about flying Moon-bats? Find out in this issue of Junior Skeptic!
Special Section: Alfred Russel Wallace
- ON THE COVER: Alfred Russel Wallace and the flying tree frog named after him. Illustration by Pat Linse.
- Alfred Russel Wallace—Species Seeker Extraordinaire
- The Consilient Mr. Wallace
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How He and Darwin Independently Used the Same Method to Arrive at Natural Selection
- Demolishing Wallace’s “White Picket Fence” Around Human Cognition
- Wallace, Darwin, and the Spiritualism Scandal of 1876
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When a Young Scientist Prosecuted a “Psychic” Fraudster, the Co-Founders of Evolutionary Biology Took Opposing Sides
- Wallace and the Flat Earthers
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Charles Lyell Counseled Charles Darwin to Avoid Public Controversies, while Encouraging Alfred Wallace to Lock Horns with a Malicious Crackpot
- Heretic Scientist
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Why Alfred Russel Wallace Got Involved In So Many Heretical Ideas
Columns
- The Gadfly
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An Internet Story
for Our Time
- The SkepDoc
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Evidence: “It Worked for My Aunt Tillie” is Not Enough
Articles
- The Innocent Moon
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Using Math to Debunk
the Lunar Effect
- The Non-Fine-Tuned Universe
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The Astronomical Failure of the Cosmological Argument for Theism
- The “God” Construct
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A Testable Hypothesis for Unifying Science and Theology
- Commentary on “Why is Critical Thinking so Hard to Teach?”
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