Skeptic Magazine, Volume 21 Number 3
Table of Contents
Special Section: Is Pornography Bad For You?
- How Porn Is Messing with Your Manhood
- Skeptical of Porn Skeptics
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A Response to Zimbardo, Wilson, and Coulombe
Reviews
- Who Invented Science?
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A Review of The Invention of Science A New History of the Scientific Revolution, by David Wootton
- Science and the Creation of the Modern Mind
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A Review of The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind, by A.C. Grayling.
- Heaven Is Not For Real
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A Review of The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, edited by M. Martin and K. Augustine.
- When Scientific American Put Psychics to the Test
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A review of The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World, by David Jaher.
Columns
- The SkepDoc
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Hazards of Herbal Medicine: Lessons from Aristolochia
- The Gadfly
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What is Sexual Orientation?
Articles
- Did a Teenager Discover an Ancient Mayan City on Google Earth?
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The Tale of the Ancient Maya and a Canadian Teenager
- Paleo Diets and Utopian Dreams
- Does AA Work?
- Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-Step Programs, and What We Really Know About Substance Abuse Treatment
- The Clash of Eschatologies
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The Role of End-Times Thinking in World History
- Nightmares from the Id
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The Neurophysiology of Anomalous Psychological Experiences
- Terror Attacks that Never Were
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Poison Gas Attack Myths in History and Recently on Afghan School Girls
Junior Skeptic
- Mammoth Mysteries! Part One
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In the pages of Junior Skeptic, we often look at “wild and wooly” mysteries—but today we mean that literally. In this issue we’ll explore the hidden history of mammoths and mastodons! The elephant family tree has had many oddly shaped branches. There once existed elephants with four tusks or even tusks shaped like shovels. But fossils of mammoths and mastodons weren’t just surprising—they changed science forever! Indeed, the discovery of these great shaggy prehistoric beasts overturned our understanding of the entire world. How did that happen? Let’s find out!
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