JUNIOR SKEPTIC 72

The SkepDoc

Coconut Oil: Health Food or Health Hazard?

The Gadfly

The Persistence of Memory… and of the Memory Wars

CONTRIBUTORS

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

Why We Are Not Living in a Post-Truth Era

An (Unnecessary) Defense of Reason and a (Necessary) Defense of Universites’ Role in Advancing it

The “Lost” Tribes of Israel

Recently, a group called the Black Hebrew Israelites

The Pentagon’s UFOs

How a Multimedia Entertainment Company Created a UFO News Story

The Problem with the Walking Dead

Van Helsing: “I want you to believe.” Dr. Seward: “To

The Enigma of Stephen Jay Gould

The Account of Gould’s Science and Politics Is More Complicated Than Critics Acknowledge

Darwinian Goggles

Why the Human Brain Did Not Evolve to Accurately Represent the True Nature of Reality

Homeopathy’s New Clothes: Release Active Drugs

formulated two laws of magical thinking in his now

Pressured Apologies, False Confessions, and Witch Hunts

Someone makes a public comment out of line with progressive

Two Kinds of Progressive Atheism

Human evolution need not be progressive. But in the

Surfing for Truth in All the Right Places

An Empirical Test of the Backfire Effect and How the Internet Can Reduce Anti-vaccination Attitudes

The Great White Decline

A review of Eric Kaufmann’s Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities

Magic and Real Magic

Reviews of Spectacle of Illusion: Deception Magic and the Paranormal by Matthew Tompkins; The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography and the Man Who Captured Lincoln’s Ghost by Peter Manseau; and Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture by Simone Natale