Skeptic Magazine 25.4 Zurück Ausgabe

QANON & CONSPIRACIES

Our 100th issue of Skeptic Magazine!

COLUMNS
The SkepDoc: New Rumpelstiltskin? How Gwyneth Paltrow Spins Straw into Gold, by Harriet Hall, M.D.

ARTICLES
Conspiracy Theories: Why We Can't Unsee Patterns — Real or Imagined — Once We See Them • QAnon in Conspiratorial Context • QAnon is Just a Warmed Over Witch Panic (and It’s Also Very Dangerous) • Fat Man and Little Boy: On the 75th Anniversary of Nuclear Weapons, a Moral Case for Their Use in Ending WWII and the Deterrence of Great Power Wars Since, and a Call to Eventually Eliminate Them • The Rise and Fall of Charles Willson Peale’s Philadelphia Museum • The Testimony of Witnesses: Raising the Dead • Do Diversity Training Programs Work? Creating a Culture of Inclusion through Scientific Reasoning • Unpacking Political Life in America: The Skeptics Society’s Social and Political Attitudes Study • How Do You Get People to Care About Truth in Politics? • Are Laws of Nature Discovered or Invented?

100TH ISSUE SPECIAL
The Art of the Skeptic: Finding Your Niche if You Love Both Science and Art

REVIEWS
Reviews of: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender and Identity; Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West

JUNIOR SKEPTIC
The Honest Truth About Vaccines
by Daniel Loxton