Skeptic Magazine, Volume 24 Number 3
Table of Contents
Articles
- The “Lost” Tribes of Israel
- The Pentagon’s UFOs
- How a Multimedia Entertainment Company Created a UFO News Story
- The Problem with the Walking Dead
- And How They Flummoxed Science for Centuries
- The Enigma of Stephen Jay Gould
- The Account of Gould’s Science and Politics is Complicated
- Darwinian Goggles
- Why the Human Brain Did Not Evolve to Accurately Represent the True Nature of Reality
- Homeopathy’s New Clothes: Release Active Drugs
- Pressured Apologies, False Confessions, and Witch Hunts
- Two Kinds of Progressive Atheism
- Surfing for Truth in All the Right Places
- An Empirical Test of the Backfire Effect and How the Internet Can Reduce Anti-vaccination Attitudes
Columns
- The SkepDoc
- Coconut Oil: Health Food or Health Hazard?
- The Gadfly
- The Persistence of Memory… and of the Memory Wars
Cover Article
- Why We Are Not Living in a Post-Truth Era
- An (Unnecessary) Defense of Reason and a (Necessary) Defense of Universites’ Role in Advancing it
Reviews
- The Great White Decline
- A review of Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann
- Magic and Real Magic
- Reviews of Spectacle of Illusion: Deception Magic and the Paranormal by Matthew Tompkins; The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography and the Man Who Captured Lincoln’s Ghost by Peter Manseau; and Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture by Simone Natale
Junior Skeptic
- The Chilling, Changeling Chupacabra!
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In this issue of Junior Skeptic we’ll investigate a mystery as gruesome as it is creepy. Hair-raising stories claim that a vampire beast stalks the shadows — stealthy, silent, and thirsty for blood. According to these tales, the chupacabra — or “goatsucker” — is rarely seen. It strikes farms in the night, feasting on blood from goats, sheep, chickens, and other helpless prey. These stories first terrified people in Puerto Rico, then spread to many other places. Some claim it is an unknown animal. Others say it is an alien predator or secret experiment gone wrong. What is the truth behind this modern vampire legend? Let’s find out!
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