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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Skeptic 22.3.
The SkepDoc
BY HARRIET HALL, M.D.
We are ingenious at finding new ways to complicate our lives and torture ourselves. One of those ways is adopting fad diets in the quest for health. Juicing is a big fad ...
The Gadfly
BY CAROL TAVRIS
How angry are you these days? Me, too. When my husband and I lived in New York City, we frequented a local Chinese restaurant. Over time, I couldn’t help noticing I kept gettin...
Big News on Homo naledi
BY NATHAN H. LENTS In September of 2015, scientists at the University of Witwatersrand, led by Dr. Lee Berger, made a bombshell announcement. Not only had a new species of hominin been discovered, bu...
The Real Origin of UFOs and Aliens
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BY TIM CALLAHAN On the evening of November 20, 1952, George Adamski led two women and two couples out into the California dessert in the hope that they might make contact with space vis...
Publicly Funded Stem Cell Research
BY RAYMOND BARGLOW
When Does Personhood Begin?
Twentieth century medicine has succeeded in treatingmany infectious diseases very effectively. But against severe conditions of cell injury...
How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog
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BY LEE DUGATKIN AND LYUDMILA TRUT In 1959, Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut began one of the longest-running experiments in biology. For the last 58 years they have been domesticating s...