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.

Latterly famous for his breakfast cereal invention, John Harvey Kellogg was a religious zealot, eugenicist, and highly prominent early 20th Century quack

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.

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.

Flying Saucers From Moore’s? Was our most famous TV astronomer also a practical joker? On the cover, Steuart Campbell and Christopher Allan mark the recent passing of Patrick Moore. Is your myth up for renewal this month? Use the handy chart to sign up for your new one with Crispian Jago's latest centrefold. Beautiful Science Danny Rees looks at the doomed historical attempts to quantify human allure. The App-aritions are Coming Hayley Stevens goes ghost-hunting with a smartphone. The First Cut Marianne Baker examines our attitudes to circumcision and wonders if we have a blind spot with male genital mutilation. Sett Theory Philip Stott tells us how culling badgers is nearly impossible. Does stress make you fat? Alexandra Johnstone and John Menzies pick out the science from the tabloid headlines. The Psychology of Ghosts and Hauntings In the latest in our Science of the Supernatural series Prof Chris French looks at Factors that might lead people to believe they had seen a ghost.

A bout of moral alarm in the educated? From the archives, Hilary Evans considers another example where the scientific evidence is absent