Skeptic | 27.2
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I like that even no scientists (like me) can read the articles.
Reviewed Monday, December 7, 2020
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keeping me saner
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My father used to write for the Skeptic. I just can't seem to get into the writing anymore.
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I still miss moderated comment in the form of letters to the magazine.
Reviewed Wednesday, March 11, 2020
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Excellent and balanced coverage of a wide variety of topics
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Skeptic 27.2.
SKEPDOC
Abortion is controversial but ubiquitous: 1 in 4 American women will have an abortion by the age of 45,1 and, around the world, 40–50 million pregnancies2 end in abortion every year. Anti-abortion a...
ABORTION
Abortion is back in the headlines with above-thefold coverage of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case now on the docket of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). It tests ...
ANTI-ABORTION
Abortion is one of the most relevant issues of our time. As with many other subjects capable of arousing strong emotion, people tend to assume that the U.S. public is evenly divided, in this case be...
INEQUALITY & REJECTION
Although abortion is often framed as a women’s issue, men make up half of the electorate and are more often pro-life.1 The legislative branch of the U.S. government is predominantly male: there are ...
A CLOSER LOOK
I’ve been thinking about sex lately, and so have you. Well, only in an appropriately skeptical way, of course. It has always fascinated me, as a social scientist, that for an activity allegedly so “...