Skeptic Volume 4, Number 1 (1996): EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
Table of Contents
SKEPTIC: A Quarterly Publication of the Skeptics Society, Devoted
to the Investigation of Extraordinary Claims and Revolutionary Ideas
and the Promotion of Science and Critical Thinking
Features:
10 'Twas Brillig--Commentary
The "High-Tech" Dowsing Stick Meets the Irresistible Challenge. By James Randi.
12 Skeptical News
1996 Skeptic Conference On Evolutionary Psychology and Humanistic Ethics; $500,000 Psychic Challenge; Skeptic Magazine World Wide Web Page "4-Star"/Top 5%; Orange County Treasurer Used Astrologer, Psychic in Billion Dollar Disaster; Skeptics Learn the Meaning of Halloween; Skeptics Magic Castle Party a Magical Experience; Members of Solar Temple Order Found Dead; Presidential Candidate Reveals Creationist Belief; More Blows Against Repressed Memory Claims; Jehovah's Witnesses Abandon End of World Prediction; 6-Year-Old Boy Named Reincarnated Buddhist Monk; Darwinian Politics; Solar Eclipse Still Retains Magical Awe; Clinton Says Roswell Crash Not a Spaceship; Talkshow Experts Get 3% Time; Pentagon Spends $20 Million in Psychic Research; Sony Funds ESP Lab; Freud Museum Exhibit Protest; Global Village Idiot Award; Carlos Castaneda's Comeback.
17 Forum
Stimulating and Provocative; Critical and Self-Critical; Scant Flame of Reason; Where's My Heroes?; Not Alone in Skepticism; Never This Excited; Beacon on the Horizon; Aura and Disorder; Journalistic Ethics and the Pioneer Fund; Sex Abuse; Velikovsky a Catastrophe; Velikovsky No Benefit; A Reminder to Us All; Schrödinger's Cat and the Law; John Lennon Backwards; Dr. Tipler Meets Dr. Asimov?; Cannot Resist Comment; Bell Curve Stripped of Rhetoric; Jack Raso Responds
18 Church of Scientology Responds
23 Repressed Memory Reversal
24 In-Group v. Universal Morality Forum Discussion
Tending the Religious Garden; Before You Throw Out The Religious Bathwater; The Torah and the Yamamano--A Rabbi Replies to Hartung; Rotten Oranges in the Crate; Throw The Baby Out, Draw New Bathwater--Hartung Responds.
32 A Walk Through Earth History: All Eight Thousand Years
A Trip to the Institute for Creation Research Museum of Creation and Earth History. By Tom McIver.
Special Section:
Evolutionary Psychology
42 INTRODUCTION: The (Im)moral Animal
A Quick and Dirty Guide to Evolutionary Psychology and the Nature of Human Nature. By Frank Miele.
50 Sociology as Alchemy
The Problem of Deleting Darwin From the Study of Society. By Frank Salter.
60 Moving Beyond Just-So Stories
Evolutionary Psychology As Protoscience. By Harmon R. Holcomb.
68 How the Human Got Its Spots
A Critical Analysis of the Just So Stories of Evolutionary Psychology. By Henry D. Schlinger Jr.
77 The Imperial Animals 25 Years Later
An Interview with Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox. By Frank Miele.
86 An Urchin in a Haystack
An Interview With Stephen Jay Gould.
91 Gould's Dangerous Idea
Contingency, Necessity, and the Nature of History. By Michael Shermer.
96 How Dangerous is Darwin?
By Michael Ruse.
In Brief and In Review:
96 BOOKS in Review
Hidden History, Hidden Agenda--The Hidden History of the Human Race, by Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson. Reviewed by Bradley T. Lepper.
Who Needs Satan? The Origin of Satan, by Elaine Pagels. Reviewed by Clayton J. Drees.
A Curious Dialogue With God--The Final Superstition: A Critical Evaluation of the Judeo-Christian Legacy, by Joseph L. Daleiden. Reviewed by Tim Callahan.
106 BOOKS in BRIEF
The Masters Revealed: Madame Blavatsky and the Myth of the Great White Lodge, by K. Paul Johnson; The Anomalist, edited and published by Patrick Huyghe and Dennis Stacy; Science Frontiers and Biological Anomalies, edited and compiled by William R. Corliss; Dinosaur in a Haystack, by Stephen Jay Gould; A History of Hypnotism, by Alan Gauld; Alternative Realities: The Paranormal, the Mystic and the Transcendent in Human Experience, by Leonard George; Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural, edited by Arthur Lehmann and James Myers; The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read, edited by Tim C. Leedom; Charles Darwin: Voyaging. Volume I of a Biography, by Janet Browne.
108 The Question All Skeptics are Asking:
What is the Ant, Sir? By Bernard Leikind.
112 Authors & Contributors
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