Skeptic Magazine 24.2 Zurück Ausgabe

THE EXISTENCE OF EVIL AND GOD

COLUMNS
The SkepDoc: Laser Therapy: Hope or Hype and Hokum?, by Harriet Hall, M.D. • The Gadfly: The Sisyphean Challenges of Skepticism or, Start by Disbelieving, by Carol Tavris

ARTICLES
Pterosaur Thunderbird: The Origin of a Fake Native American Legend with an Anti- Evolution Agenda • Conversations with My Dead Mother: Why We See Signs and Omens in Everyday Events • Is Cousin Marriage Dangerous? • Therapeutic Touch Redux Twenty Years After the “Emily Event”: Energy Therapies Live on Through Bad Science • What Can Science Learn from Religion? Steven Pinker on Religious Beliefs and Rituals • Becoming Fantastic: Why People Embellish Already Accomplished Lives with Incredible Tales of UFOs and Other Phenomena • 1984 in 2019: The New Privacy Threat from China’s Social Credit Surveillance System


SPECIAL DEBATE SECTION
Michael Shermer v. Brian Huffling: Is the Reality of Evil Good Evidence Against the Christian God?

REVIEW
Graham Hancock’s “America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization” reviewed by Jason Colavito

JUNIOR SKEPTIC
The Colossal Case of the Cardiff Giant: One of America’s Greatest Hoaxes