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Skeptic Magazine

4 issues per year View Reviews   |   Write Review From €5,00 per issue Skeptic features long-form, data-driven articles, and well-reasoned opinion pieces. Whatever the topic, we want to see how science and reason intersect with it to get us a little bit closer to what the truth might be. .. read more We call this approach Reality-based. Really.

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EDUCATION MATTERS
Education Matters in the Culture Wars: Can We Separate Bias From Ideology? • Standardized Admission Tests Are Not Biased: In Fact, They’re Fairer Than Other Measures • Educational Testing and the War on Reality & Common Sense • How American Schools of Education Burked Education in America’s Schools • Bone Wars: How Activists Are Targeting Teaching • Quantifying Privilege: What Research on Social Mobility Tells Us About Fairness in America • The Kill Your Brother Game: Playful Dramas & Unintended Consequences of Censorship • Fads & Fallacies of Education Reform: Why Education Policy and Practice Have Become Research-Free Zones • A Vision for Comprehensive Educational Reform: Where Learners Control Their Own Education

ARTICLES
Leonardo da Vinci & Albert Einstein: Could the Renaissance Genius Have Grasped the Foundational Concepts of General Relativity? .. read more • Roe v. Wade: One Year Later

REVIEW
A Skeptical View of J. Edgar Hoover & the FBI: A review of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage (2022) and The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism (2023) by Lerone A. Martin  read less
Skeptic features long-form, data-driven articles, and well-reasoned opinion pieces. Whatever the topic, we want to see how science and reason intersect with it to get us a little bit closer to what the truth might be. We call this approach Reality-based. Really.

Crafted through an extensive editorial process, each article is written by experts in their fields. When the time comes for you to read it, you can bet that every word counts… And it looks good too! Skeptic features custom, full-color illustrations by award-winning artists that enhance your reading experience.

Whether you're at home or on the go, the Skeptic App is the easiest way to access your favorite articles. Proven to be a great conversation starter for those who choose not to see the world in black and white.

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I like that even no scientists (like me) can read the articles. Reviewed lunes, 7 de diciembre de 2020
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keeping me saner
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My father used to write for the Skeptic. I just can't seem to get into the writing anymore. Reviewed domingo, 6 de septiembre de 2020
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I still miss moderated comment in the form of letters to the magazine. Reviewed miércoles, 11 de marzo de 2020
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Excellent and balanced coverage of a wide variety of topics Reviewed domingo, 8 de marzo de 2020

Articles in this issue

Below is a selection of articles in Skeptic 28.3.

Reality-based. Really. SINCE 1992 Skeptic Magazine, Available in Print & Digital Formats Skeptic features long form, data-driven articles and well-reasoned opinion pieces. Whatever the topi...
EDUCATION MATTERS in the CULTURE WARS “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, butdo not consider the plank in your own eye?” —MATTHEW 7:3 “The greatest of faults, I shouldsay, is to be conscious of none.” —THOMAS CA...
Standardized Admission Tests Are Not Biased “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets youinto trouble. It’s what you know for sure thatjust ain’t so.” —ATTRIBUTED TO MARK TWAIN When it comes to opinions concerning standardized tests, it seems t...
Educational Testing and the War on Reality & Common Sense The practice of discussing educational testing in the same sentence with the term “war” is not necessarily new or original.1 What may be new to readers, however, is to characterize current debates i...
How American Schools of Education BURKED* EDUCATION in America’s Schools *Burke [transitive verb]: 1) to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence. 2) to suppress or get rid of by some indirect maneuver. From William...
BONE WARS On March 5, 2023, NBC News, in conjunction with ProPublica,1 a nonprofit newsroom that investigates “abuses of power,” published what can only be described as a hit piece against the legendary paleo...

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