Magazine
Volume 24 Issue 1: Jane Goldman
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Jane Goldman: the skeptic and writer shares her love of skepticism and the supernatural with editor Deborah Hyde.
Nelson Jones: looks at the big-game sightings on the savannahs of England in 'Catflap'.
Phillip Stott and Toby Murcott delve into scientific philosophy, to discover the sceptical thinking that isn’t in 'Scepticism and Science'.
Kathryn Harkup kicks off a new 'science of the supernatural series' with 'Zombies are People Too'.
Dean Burnett ponders the fashionable misuse of neuroscience in 'Neuropseudoscience'.
Gijsbert Stoet and David Geary review the stereotype threat theory in 'Why Are There Fewer Women Working in Science & Technology?'
We have a brilliant four page pull-out poster, Crispian Jago's 'Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense'
Plus all the regular features, reviews and columns from Chris French, Wendy Grossman, Michael Heap, Mark Duwe and Mark Williams.
Paul Kurtz, Father of Secular Humanism, dies aged 86
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The following article is a press release from Prometheus Books, of which Kurtz was founder. Are more personal article was published by Kurtz' former colleague ,...
Volume 23 Issue 5: Daniel Dennett
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Features
Deborah Hyde talks apes and ethics with Horseman, Daniel Dennett, in a special cross-production with The Pod Delusion.
Nelson Jones tackles the thorny lexicography of the rational approach in 'Sceptic or Skeptic?'.
Richard Firth Godbehere applies a memetic perspective on the connections between Witches and The Book of Revelations in Early Modern Europe.
Jon Wainwright examines scepticism and consensus in science.
Centrefold
Logical Fallacies by Jesse Richardson
Columns & Regulars
There's all the regular content, including columns from our popular regulars Chris French, Wendy Grossman, Michael Heap and Mark Duwe. Plus the first in a regular new series from David Allen Green - ' Cross Examination'. There's 'Hits & Misses', 'Skeptical Stats', letters, crosswords and loads of reviews.
Volume 23 Issue 4: Robin Ince
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The Skeptic Interview with Robin Ince
Deborah Hyde finds the many facets of skepticism’s favourite outreach comedian, writer, producer and broadcaster. DEBORAH HYDE
Conspiracy Theories: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
An MoD employee turned journalist looks at the popular modern narrative form to assess its bad – and good – points. NICK POPE
The Mysterious Wels Catfish
Is there a new candidate for our ever-popular lake monsters, or is the evidence lacking? HAYLEY STEVENS
The Skeptic Awards
A look back at our first awards ceremony: please rise for the winners of ‘The Ockhams’. DEBORAH HYDE
March of the Giant Penguin
Following in the strange footsteps of one cyptozoology’s classic hoaxes. NELSON JONES
The Return of the Enfield ‘Poltergeist’
Comments about TV’s revisit of the famous case on This Morning.
DEBORAH HYDE & MARY ROSE BARRINGTON
Centrefold
Karma Kanics
CRISPIAN JAGO
Columns & Regulars
Reasonable Doubt
CHRIS FRENCH
Reply to Reasonable Doubt
DONALD HAWTHORN
Skeptic at Large
WENDY GROSSMAN
Galileo’s Doughnuts
MARK DUWE
Philosopher’s Corner
JULIAN BAGGINI
Hits & Misses
MARK WILLIAMS
Skeptical Stats
MARK WILLIAMS
Through a Glass Darkly
MIKE HEAP
Looking for America
NEIL DENNY
Volume 23 Issue 3: Rest in Peace Hitch
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Dickensian Ghosts
Nelson Jones muses upon Charles Dickens' sceptical attitudes while visiting The British Library's latest exhibition: A Hankering After Ghosts: Charles Dickens and the Supernatural
Looking For America
Little Atoms host Neil Denny shares his plans for 2012
The Rise of Skepticism in Uganda
Kampala radio host James Onen describes why he works to spread freethought in Uganda
Learning From What Didn't Happen
The Role of Negative Evidence in Investigation - Benjamin Radford
Losing Hitch
Anthony Burns ruminates on Hitch's persistent preoccupations, and wonders aloud about that supposed move from left to right
The Skeptic Awards
Deborah Hyde
Centrefold
Modern Science Map - Crispian Jago
Volume 23 Issue 2: Jon Ronson
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Nelson Jones on the religious exhibition at The British Museum
Dean Burnett on a homeopathic cure for homosexuality
Hayley Stevens on paranormal conferences and impartiality
Sam Harris interviewed by Deborah Hyde
Chris French remembers Hilary Evans of the Mary Evans Picture Library
Lynette Nusbacher on narrative and social constructionism
Kylie Sturgess and Tessa Kendall on sceptical activism and the abortion debate
Chris French interviews Jon Ronson
Crispian Jago with an Alternative Medicine flowchart.
Volume 22 Issue 4 & Volume 23 Issue 1: Double Issue
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Simon Singh & Edzard Ernst on The First Quackbusters
Edzard Ernst on The New College of Medicine
Andy Wilson on How to Take an Overdose
Mahlon Wagner on Therapeutic Touch
Luke Mason on Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
Alan Henness on The Nightingale Collaboration
Richard Wiseman on the first experiment into eyewitness testimony
Jason Braithwaite on Magnetic fields, hallucinations and anomalous experiences
Klaus Schmeh on hidden messages in the bible
An anonymous author on claims of recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse
George Wells on Christianity and evolution
Chris French interviews Richard Wiseman about magic, parapsychology and scepticism
Benjamin Radford on spotting faulty reasoning
Nathalie Nahai reviews TAM London 2010
Militant Secularism? (Volume 22.4-23.1)
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These materials accompany the short article of the same title, published in the Hits and Misses column, in Volumes 22.4-23.1 of The Skeptic. ...