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Michelle E. Ainsworth holds an MA in history. She enjoys learning about intellectual history, and is currently researching the cultural history of stage magic in the United States. She is a member of the New York Society for Ethical Culture. She blogs at humanistchick.blogspot.com.

Ástor Alexander is a figurative illustrator and painter. He specializes in portraits and he’s a big fan of the American illustrators of the 60s. His work can be seen at behance.net/astoralexander

Dr. Raymond Barglow majored in physics at Caltech and received a doctorate in philosophy at UC Berkeley. He has taught at UC Berkeley and Trinity College and writes on science, ethics, and public policy issues.

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COLUMNS
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Define Your Terms (or, Here we Go Again)
ARTICLES
John Andrews and the Invention of a Legend
A Virtual Experiment in the Dark Side of Human Nature
DATA MINING INVOLVES RANSACKING DATA AND searching
THE INSTANT, GLOBAL SPREAD OF INFORMATION through the
How this Group Raises Big Money Using a Dance Troupe and its Own Victimhood
DRUG OVERDOSE IS NOW THE LEADING CAUSE OF death for
“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s
The Lion of Intelligent Design Roars Again
The Case Against the Case Against Postmodernism
THE TRADITIONAL DEFINITION OF GOD CREDITS HIM WITH
REVIEWS
A Review of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
A review of The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake, by Steven Novella with Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, and Evan Bernstein.
A review of Investigating Ghosts: The Scientific Search for Spirits by Benjamin Radford
Reviews of Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post- Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young and Hoax: A History of Deception: 5000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies by Ian Tattersall and Peter Nevraumont
Review of Truth’s Fool: Derek Freeman and the War Over Anthropology by Peter Hempenstall.
JUNIOR SKEPTIC
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Strategy board games like Risk were complicated enough
It took a year to sell the first thousand Dungeons
Fear of Satanic cults trickled first through certain
Eventually the Satanic Panic faded away. The FBI concluded