Skeptic Magazine, Volume 23 Number 4
Table of Contents
Special Section: Tactics for Discussing Contentious Issues
- Personhood and Abortion Rights
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How Science Might Inform this Contentious Issue
- How to Teach Evolution to Religious Students
- The Arguments for Creationism and the Arguments for Evolution
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A Study in Contrasts
- Meeting Our “Enemies” Where They Are
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The Advantage of Understanding Your Adversary’s Arguments
Junior Skeptic
- Secrets of the Ouija Board
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Today we will dim the lights and gather around an object of mystery: the ouija (pronounced “wee-ja” or “wee-gee”). With a little pointer, these simple but spooky devices spell out answers that appear to come from some invisible source. Some people believe ouija boards release secrets from our subconscious minds. Others claim ouija boards harness supernatural forces to predict the future or contact spirits of the dead. Ouija boards have been used to write entire books, and praised as a source of cosmic wisdom. They have also been blamed for madness, mayhem, and murder. Some even fear that ouija boards are gateways for evil demons. Are any of these claims true? Let’s find out!
Columns
- The SkepDoc
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Health Freedom, Right to Try, and Informed Consent
- The Gadfly
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Do You Have Traits or Are You a Type?
Articles
- The Grandest of Questions
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Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
- Reports of Mysterious Attacks on U.S. Diplomats Continue
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Separating Fact from Fiction
- The God Damners
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The Now Not-so-New Atheism
- Quackery in America
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An Inglorious and Ongoing History
- What Is It like to Be a Human?
Reviews
- A Dark World Gets Pinker
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A review of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, by Steven Pinker.
- The Inevitability of Intelligent Life
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Reviews of The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution, by Charles S. Cockell, and The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will, by Kenneth R. Miller.
- Calling SCAM a Scam
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A review of SCAM: So-Called Alternative Medicine, by Edzard Ernst.
- Dead Weight
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A review of Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, by Nassim Nicholas.
- Who Are You?
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A review of The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are, by Alan Jasonoff.
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