Skeptic Volume 3, Number 2 (1995): THE AIDS HERESIES
- Features
- Skeptical News
- "Cool Moss Clinton"; Randi 1--Geller 0; Scholastic Magazine
Haunted by Nostradamus; Janos Was No Janus: So Long to a
Skeptical Friend; California Has Its Faults; No Satanic
Abuse; Repressed Memory Suit Dismissed; South African
Witchcraze; No Social Security For UFOs; Mystery Fumes Not
Mass Hysteria; Psychic Cats; Ig Nobel Peace Prize; California
Cloudbusting; The Madness of King George (& the American
Public); A Trip to Waco; Why Ask Why; Corporate Religion.
- Forum
- Skeptics' Forum: Letters
- Suicide Astrology; Am I Crazy? Seeking Answers--20 Questions;
Abducted by Santa; A Psychic Test For Skeptics; A Skeptical
Test of Graphoanalysis; Lucky Chicken Crap; The Great
Atheism--Agnosticism Debate; Skeptical Religion; Challenging
Drees--Religion is Not a Deterrent; Understanding the Total
Human Experience--Drees Responds; Randi is Wrong; Reality is
Right--Randi Responds; The Skeptics Dogmatic Society--Raso
Needs Revising; Tending Garden and Health--Raso Responds;
Curing Homeopathy; Satire--A Powerful Weapon; Sloppy Thinking
Media.
- Skeptics' Forum: Challenge
- Who Really Discovered Punctuated Equilibrium?: A Skeptical
Critique of Stephen Jay Gould by Bruce Sobol.
The Mismeasure of Gould--
On the Perils of Striking Out
by Michael Shermer.
- Pseudohistory forum
- Revising the Founding Fathers; Afrocentric Skepticism or
Credulity?; Holocaust Poll Still Distorted; The Greeks Stole
Philosophy?; Plane Crashes and Gas Chambers; The John Birch
Society & Holocaust Revisionists--Common Methods & Mistakes;
Greetings from the Aryan Nations; Speaking Volumes About
Revisionism; Don't Forget the Gypsies.
- Should the Bible Be Taken Literally?--By Betty McCollister
- 'Twas Brillig. Commentary:
The Great Astrology Brouhaha: The Internet Becomes a Weapon
of Change
- By James Randi
- Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence? A
Reappraisal of a Classic Skeptics' Axiom
- By Theodore Schick, Jr.
- Bell Curve Issue Preview:
- For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls
An Interview with the Author of The Bell Curve, Charles
Murray.On IQ, Race, Class, Gould, Gardner, and the Clintons
- By Frank Miele
- Special Section: THE AIDS Heresies
- Does HIV Really Cause AIDS?--A Case Study in Skepticism Taken
Too Far.
- By Steven B. Harris
- AIDS Part I
- The Skeptics and Their Claims
- AIDS Part II
- How Skepticism Went Astray
- AIDS Part III
- Lessons on How Science Works
- Skeptical Perspectives
- A Gentlemanly Arrangement
Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, and the Resolution of
a Scientific Priority Dispute: The story of how the co-
discoverers of natural selection resolved a scientific
priority dispute offers deep insight into the nature of
discovery and history.
- By Michael Shermer
- In Brief and In Review:
- BOOKS in Brief
- "Skeptoon: An Illustrated Look at Some New Age Beliefs"; and
"Magic Minds, Miraculous Moments," by Harry Edwards;
"How To Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New
Age," by Theodore Schick, and Lewis Vaughn;
"Telling the Truth About History," by Joyce Appleby, Lynn
Hunt, and Margaret Jacob; "Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of
Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher." Recordings
of Richard Feynman in the Classroom; "The Pleasures and
Perils of Genius: Mostly Mozart," ed. by Peter Ostwald and
Leonard Zegans; "Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man
Behind Star Trek," by Joel Engel; "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of
the Human Future in Space," by Carl Sagan.
- BOOKS In Review
- The Fall of The Soviet Union & the Changing Game of
Biblical Prophecy
Hal Lindsey's "Planet Earth--2000 A.D.: Will Mankind
Survive?"
- Reviewed By Tim Callahan
- Culture Wars:
Skeptics, Parapsychologists & New Agers--Has the "good guys
v. bad guys" rhetoric hindered the quest for truth?--A review
of "Science in the New Age," by David Hess.
- Reviewed By Brian Siano
- The Question All Skeptics are Asking
Why Did God Make Rice Cakes?
- By Bernard Leikind
- Authors and Contributors
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