ALL ISSUES - Confidence Scams
What's Inside
Volume 21 Number 1
- Cons
by Maria Konnikova - America’s Stonehenge
Did Highly Developed Europeans Build a Sophisticated Astronomical and Religious Monument on the American East Coast More Than 3000 Years Ago?
by Gert Jan van ’t Land - The Great ET Paradox: Why We are Likely to Find Them Before They Find Us
Is Star KIC 8462852 a Sign of an Extraterrestrial Civilization?
by George Michael - Hurricane Strikes as Divine Retribution
An Empirical Test
by Robert Warren and M. J. Olejniczak - Ruins of Empires
Thomas Jefferson, Constantin-Francois Volney, and the Separation of Church and State
by Thomas Christian Williams - Winning the Vaccination War in California
by Raymond Barglow and Margret Schaefer - Prophet Without Honor
Francis Galton and the Birth of Behavioral Genetics
by Robert G. Goldstein, MD - When Cops Kill: An Insider’s Perspective
by Daniel DeLeon - Guns and Games
The Relationship Between Violent Video Games and Gun Crimes in America
by John Glynn - More on Morals: On Science and Morality
Deontologists are Covert Consequentialists
by Sam Harris - Expanding Science to Include Morals
by Michael Shermer - Clarifying Confusions
Alligators in the Sewers!
by Robert E. Bartholomew - Who’s Crazy Now?: DSM-5 and the Classification of Mental Disorders
by Harriet Hall, M.D. - The Delicate Dilemma of Defining Rape
by Carol Tavris - Advocatus Diaboli—the Devil’s Advocate
A Review of Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy, by Micah Zenko
reviewed by David Press
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