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Volume 26 Issue 2: Susan Blackmore

Buy Now SUSAN BLACKMORE consciousness, altered sates & freedom of speech THE WAR on ERROR Debunking for all NETWORK SCIENCE Direwolves, dragons, lions & maths A MYTHIC AGE Standards of proof reporting the supernatual in the Middle Ages THE OCKHAM AWARDS 2016 Plus all the regular features, reviews and columns from Chris French, Wendy Grossman, Michael Heap, Mark Duwe and Mark Williams

Volume 26 Issue 1: Jim Al-Khalili

Skeptic Vol 26 Issue 1 cover Buy Now JIM AL-KHALILI quantum mechanics, quantum biology & the history of science MORE MIRACLES the return of Peter Popoff BRAIN TRAINING evidence please? CORRELATION or CAUSATION? mozarella cheese & civil engineering REVISITING THE SECRET a psychological perspective on the self-help bestseller

Volume 25 Issue 4: The Monster of Lake Champlain

Magazine cover image issue 25:4 Buy Now the MONSTER of LAKE CHAMPLAIN A Nessie researcher investigates one of the USA's most enduring cryptozoological mysteries LADDERS, WEBS & DEATH as RECREATION Thoughts on the philosophical basis of death for entertainment WIND TURBINE 'SYNDROME' The unfamiliar trajectories of scientific uncertainty - what's wrong with asking bad questions? THE OCKHAM AWARDS 2015 Hosted at QED in Manchester CENTREFOLD The Chemistry of Ice-Cream Plus all the usual columns, puzzles, reviews and features.

Volume 25 Issue 3: Eugenie Scott

Language & Dictionaries Words are slippery customers and dictionaries are imperfect...so what do they really do The Skeptic Interview with Eugenie Scott The recently retired Executive Director of the USA's National Center for Science Education looks at the past and future of pseudo-science in the classroom Does Science Support Infant Circumcision? Revisiting the infant circumcision debate with a reply to Brian Morris from The Skeptic 24:4 Do You Remember? 'Sybil' & 'Eve' were famous and remarkable cases of 'multiple personality disorder' - but was it the psychiatrists who were deluded by 'recovered' memories? Centrefold Common Mythconceptions - the world's most contagious falsehoods Plus all the usual columns, puzzles, reviews and features.

Does science support infant circumcision? A skeptical reply to Brian Morris

by Brian D. Earp and Robert Darby According to Brian Morris in a recent issue of The Skeptic, “Science supports infant circumcision” and “so should skeptics.”[1] It would be more accurate to say that “Brian Morris supports infant circumcision” and that skeptics can think for themselves.

Volume 25 Issue 2: Steve Jones

Steve Jones An interview with geneticist and popular science book author Professor Steve Jones. We talk genes, epidemics and religion Prickly Passions Hedgehog aficianado Hugh Warwick discusses that unquantifiable - passion - in the context of science Occam's Chainsaw Professor Jason Braithwaite and Hayley Dewe wield Occam's chainsaw to demolish dualist interpretations of the near-death experience The Skeptical Bobby Ex-policeman Stevyn Colgan takes another angle on policing Compound Interest The Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science Plus all the usual columns, puzzles and features.

Volume 24 Issue 3: Prof. Francesca Stavrakopoulou

Prof. Francesca Stavrakopoulou TV's Biblical Scholar talks Bibles and beliefs Who won the 'Ockhams'? Award Night at QED 2013 The Sleep Paralysis Project The quintessential uncanny experience, rendered into art Uncertainty A GP explores certainty and statistics in medicine Crispian Jago's Conspiracy Theory Flowchart Behaving Like Animals? Frans de Waal on the origins of human ethics Reflections of the Divine The human mind and the seeds of spirituality Plus all the regular features, reviews and columns from Chris French, Wendy Grossman, Michael Heap, Mark Duwe and Mark Williams.

Volume 24 Issue 4: Prof. Elizabeth Loftus

Features Prof. Elizabeth Loftus Malleable memories and misinformation's ground-breaking psychologist The 'Mystical-Type' Experience What about when it happens to an atheist? Infant Circumcision Revisited: now, the case 'for' Crispian Jago's Venn diagram of irrational nonsense Saint-Making Nelson Jones finds the raw materials UFOs Cognitive Dissonance and Belief Plus all the regular features, reviews and columns from Chris French, Wendy Grossman, Michael Heap, Mark Duwe and Mark Williams.
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