Skeptic Volume 1, Number 4 (Winter 1992): WITCHES, HERETICS, SCIENTISTS

Skeptical News

Houdini; Millennium Watch; Newton; Skeptics International; Norwegian Skeptics; Occidental Creationism; Tapes for Sale; Haunted Hearing; Rational Sobriety; Scope of Skepticism; UFO Support Group; Psychics Fail; Skeptic's Predictions; Skeptics TV; Tunguska; AIDS Dispute; Extinction Extinguished

Skeptics' Forum

Letters

A.R.E. You Sure?

The Edgar Cayce Foundation Responds To A Skeptical Critique; The Skeptics Society Replies

Can Religion Be Rational?

By Charles Brough

SPECIAL SECTION INTRODUCTION: The Price of Intolerance

Today's Heretic, Tomorrow's Saint

By Clayton J. Drees

Spirits, Witches, and Science: Why the Rise of Science Encouraged Belief in the Supernatural in 17th-Century England

By Richard Olson

The Ideological Immune System: Resistance to New Ideas in Science

By Jay Stuart Snelson

The Day the Earth Moved: The Psychology of Resistance to the Heretical- Science of Copernicus

By Michael Shermer

In Brief and In Review: Books and Articles of Interest

Jonestown: A CIA Medical Experiment?; On the Wild Side; Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas; Missing Pieces; How To Investigate Ghosts; UFOs,Psychics, and Other Mysteries; E.T.; Top Ten Science Frauds; Ten Great Unanswered Questions of Science; Galileo; Newton; Weird Wonders

It's Baaack: The Nature-Nurture Debate Again

Exons, Introns and Talking Genes: The Science Behind the Human Genome Project; Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism; Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science; The Road to Equality: Evolution and Social Reality

By Paul McDowell

Discovery and Creation

The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination; The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know Himself; The Discoverers: An Illustrated History of Man's Search to Know Himself

By Michael Shermer