Skeptic  |  20.3
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Alfred Russel Wallace—Species Seeker Extraordinaire; The Consilient Mr. Wallace: How He and Darwin Independently Used the Same Method to Arrive at Natural Selection; Demolishing Wallace’s “White Picket Fence” Around Human Cognition: Wallace, Darwin, and the Spiritualism Scandal of 1876 When a Young Scientist Prosecuted a "Psychic" Fraudster, the Co-Founders of Evolutionary Biology Took Opposing Sides; Wallace and the Flat Earthers: Charles Lyell Counseled Charles Darwin to Avoid Public Controversies, while Encouraging Alfred Wallace to Lock Horns with a Malicious Crackpot; Reconciling the “Two Wallaces: Why Alfred Russel Wallace Got Involved In So Many Heretical Ideas
Articles: Debunking the Full Moon Effect on School Kids; The Non-Fine-Tuned Universe: The Astronomical Failure of the Cosmological Argument for Theism; The “God” Construct: A Testable Hypothesis for Unifying Science and Theology; “Why is Critical Thinking so Hard to Teach?”
Columns: Internet Trolls and Civility; Anecdotal Medical Evidence
Reviews: The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically; Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality; Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions; The Gluten Lie: and Other Myths About What You Eat; The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology Tried to Destroy Paulette Cooper
Junior Skeptic: Bat-People On the Moon! Anatomy of a Moon Hoax
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Skeptic 20.3.