MAMMOTH MYSTERIES! PART ONE

The SkepDoc

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The Gadfly

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CONTRIBUTORS

Michelle E. Ainsworth holds an MA in history. She enjoys

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Skeptical of the Porn Skeptics

A Response to Zimbardo, Wilson, and Coulombe

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The Tale of the Ancient Maya and a Canadian Teenager

Paleo Diets and Utopian Dreams

“LIFE WAS GOOD FOR OUR PALEOLITHIC GRANDparents,” recounts a 2001

Does AA Work?

Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-Step Programs, and What We Really Know About Substance Abuse Treatment

The Clash of Eschatologies

The Role of End-Times Thinking in World History

Nightmares from the Id

The Neurophysiology of Anomalous Psychological Experiences

Terror Attacks that Never Were

Myths of Poison Gas Attacks in History and More Recently on Afghan School Girls

Electromagnetic Fields and Parental Panics

A Case Study in How Science Can Bring Comfort

Who Invented Science?

Review of The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution, by David Wootton

Science and the Creation of the Modern Mind

A Review of The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A.C.Grayling

Heaven Is Not For Real

Review of The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death edited by M. Martin and K. Augustine

When Scientific American Put Psychics to the Test

Review of The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World by David Jaher

VANISHED WORLDS

First, before we consider the mammoths, I’d like you to

FORGOTTEN GIANTS

Humanity never knew the dinosaurs. But Ice Age mammals were

GIANTS AND ELEPHANTS

People in Europe continued to interpret large fossils as the

UNDERGROUND MONSTERS

Mammoth bones, teeth, and tusks are found across half the

MULTIPLYING MYSTERIES

Three hundred years ago, the mystery of gigantic unexplained bones

NEW FACTS EMERGE

Siberia’s mammoths became a mystery that sparked intense interest among

FLOOD OF MISINFORMATION

There’s an old saying: “It ain’t what you don’t know

DEEPER AMERICAN MYSTERY

Even as an elephant-like view of Siberian mammoths and European

AMERICAN INCOGNITUM

It took several more decades to solve the American mastodon

REVOLUTIONARY MONSTER

The Ohio incognitum was such a famous American mystery that