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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Skeptic 26.1.
SKEPTIC
Skeptics Society Officers Michael Shermer Pat Linse SKEPTICS SOCIETY & SKEPTIC MAGAZINE Promoting Science and Critical Thinking Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Michael Shermer PO Box 338 Altade...
The SkepDoc
WHEN FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD Trump’s doctor, Sean Conley, came down the front steps of Walter Reed Army Medical Center to brief the nation on the President’s health, it caused consternation i...
CONTRIBUTORS
David P. Barash is professor of psychology emeritus at the University of Washington. His most recent book (from which this article is modified and excerpted) is Threats: Intimidation and Its Discont...
Psychological Risks with COVID-19 Vaccines
THE NEWS MEDIA HAVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY IN the current race to vaccinate enough people in the United States and around the world, so that we can reach the all-important goal of attaining herd ...
The After Time
AS I WRITE IN THE WANING WEEKS OF 2020 IT OFTEN feels like our civilization has metamorphized into a Herman Melville novel in which… All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of...
Alien Skulls and Their Makers
Anatomical flaws of the Sealand skull A FEW YEARS AGO, WHEN DONALD PROTHERO AND I (TC) were writing UFOs, Chemtrails and Aliens: What Science Says, we divided up the topics that each of us would add...