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Diet Sodas: Are the Dangers In the Chemicals or the Headlines?

CONTRIBUTORS

Ástor Alexander is a figurative illustrator and painter.

Canine Cognition

Did Dogs Become Smarter Through Domestication? An Interview with Dr. Brian Hare

Bird Brains

Are Crows as Intelligent as Some Scientists Claim?

What Biology Can Teach Us About Crime and Justice

THE LAST HALF-CENTURY HAS BROUGHT ABOUT A number of

No Barriers to Inquiry

SKEPTIC Special Issue Introduction

I Am Not a Racist, And So Are You

An Unauthorized Peek at the Great Shaming Taking Place at an Institution of Higher Learning Near You, and Other Fireside Tales

Radically Wrong in Berkeley

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA IS FAMOUS FOR ITS HISTORY of political

When Secularism Becomes a Religion

The Alt-Left, the Alt-Right, and Moral Righteousness

When Science Becomes the Enemy

I FIRST ENCOUNTERED THE RADICAL LEFT’S FLIRTATION with

Gary Taubes and the Case Against Sugar

GARY TAUBES IS A JOURNALIST ON A CRUSADE. IN TWO earlier

From Camelot to Conspiracy

Memory, Myth, and the Death of JFK

Ultraterrestrials

A review of How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth. By David Clarke

Virtual Violence

A Review of Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games is Wrong. By Patrick M. Markey and Christopher J. Ferguson

GHOST SHIPS

Pat Linse is the creator of and Editor in Chief of