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Skeptic Magazine, Volume 23 Number 3
Table of Contents
Special Feature: The Jordan Peterson Phenomenon
- Have Archetype—Will Travel
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The Jordan Peterson Phenomenon
by Michael Shermer - Jordan Peterson’s Endeavor
- by Jonathan N. Stea
- Thought Crimes
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Jordan Peterson and the meaning of the Meaning of Life
by Stephen Beckner
Junior Skeptic
- Astral Projection
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In the pages of Junior Skeptic, we often discover that incredible-sounding paranormal claims are, in truth, fake mysteries—misleading stories told by tricksters to fool people. Today we’ll try to solve a genuine mystery! It’s a fact that millions of people all over the world have had the bizarre experience of feeling that they temporaily left their bodies behind. During these out-of-body experiences (OBEs), people feel that the thinking, feeling part of themselves has somehow floated free as a spirit. Some people even report that they have looked down from the ceiling to see their own bodies! How can this be? What is really happening? Let’s find out!
This issue’s cover is a digital painting by Ástor Alexander.
Columns
- Cover illustration: Mother Nature by Pat Linse
- The SkepDoc
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Beware Stem Cell Clinics that Offer Untested Treatments
by Harriet Hall, M.D.
Special Section: Science & Morality
- Getting Real About Right and Wrong
- by Clay Farris Naff and Andy Norman
- No, Being Religious Will Not Save You from Suicide
- by Jesse Bering
- Lessons from Behavioral Science in a Warzone
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How Reason, Skepticism, and Compassion Can Win Hearts and Minds
by John Kirbow - Moral Philosophy and its Discontents
- Can science determine moral values? An Exchange with Massimo Pigliucci, Michael Shermer, and Kevin McCaffree
- You Kant be Serious
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Utilitarianism and Its Discontents
by Michael Shermer - Michael Shermer on Utilitarianism, Deontology, and “Natural Rights”
- by Massimo Pigliucci
- Science and Morality: A Response to Massimo Pigliucci
- by Michael Shermer
- Michael Shermer on Moral Philosophy, Second Round
- by Massimo Pigliucci
- Are Human Rights Natural Rights?
- by Kevin McCaffree
Articles
- Facilitated Communication Redux
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Persistence of a Discredited Technique
by Steve Sobel, M.D. - The Mystery of Elite Religious Scientists
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A Cognitively Impenetrable Illusion
by John C. Wathey - Five Questions About Human Errors for Proponents of Intelligent Design
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Adapted from Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
by Nathan H. Lents
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