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Volume 20 Number 2
- Smokey the Bear Medicine
by Harriet Hall, M.D. - How to Make Young Kids Smarter
by Carol Tavris - Who Speaks for Earth?
The Current Controversy Over METI: Messaging to Extra-Terrestrials
by David Brin - Can Emotions Affect Matter?
Testing Masaru Emoto’s Hypothesis That Emotions Change Nature
by Nicolas Gauvrit and Stanislas Francfort - Heaven Only Knows
Near-Death Experiences and the Problem of Account Incongruence
by Cory Markum - Where Drug Myths Die
An Interview with Carl Hart
by Felipe Nogueira - Putin’s Rasputin
Meet Aleksandr Dugin, Mystical High Priest of Russian Fascism
by Robert Zubrin - Placebo, Are You There?
by Jean Brissonnet; translation by Harriet Hall, M.D. - What Parents Need Not to Know
Eight Myths of Child Development
by Stephen Hupp and Jeremy Jewell - What Does “Supernatural” Mean, Anyway?
by Michael Shermer - The Diet-Heart Hypothesis
The Contested Roles of Fats and Carbohydrates in Heart Disease
by Kenneth W. Krause - A Psychologist’s Innumeracy
A Guide to Recognizing Pseudo-Mathematics in the Social Sciences
by Eric C. Prichard - The Problem With Facts
Why the Law of Gravity is False
by Kyle Sanders - Flawed Geniuses in Film
Film Biographies: Stephen Hawking: The Theory of Everything, and Alan Turing: The Imitation Game
Reviewed by Donald Prothero - The Use and Abuse of Mirror Neurons
A Review of The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition, by Gregory Hickok
Reviewed by Harriet Hall, M.D. - Wonderful Science
A Review of A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble, by Edzard Ernst
Reviewed by Harriet Hall, M.D. - God’s Lawyer
A Review of Christianity on Trial: A Lawyer Examines the Christian Faith, by Mark Lanier
Reviewed by L. Kirk Hagen - Willpower and Won’t Power
A Review of The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control, by Walter Mischel
Reviewed by Michael Shermer - In the Belly of the Beast
A Review of Among the Creationists: Dispatches from the Anti-Evolutionist Front Lines, by Jason Rosenhouse
Reviewed by Donald R. Prothero - Stranger Than Fiction
A Review of the HBO Documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief*
Reviewed by Donald R. Prothero
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