WINTER 1992: Volume 1, Number 4: WITCHES, HERETICS, SCIENTISTS Skeptical News Houdini; Mil

WINTER 1992: Volume 1, Number 4: WITCHES, HERETICS, SCIENTISTS

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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

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Skeptics' Forum 
Letters

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A.R.E. You Sure?
The Edgar Cayce Foundation Responds To A Skeptical Critique; The 
Skeptics Society Replies

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Can Religion Be Rational?
By Charles Brough

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SPECIAL SECTION INTRODUCTION: The Price of Intolerance

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Today's Heretic, Tomorrow's Saint
By Clayton J. Drees

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Spirits, Witches, and Science: Why the Rise of Science Encouraged 
Belief in the Supernatural in 17th-Century England 
By Richard Olson
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The Ideological Immune System: Resistance to New Ideas in Science
By Jay Stuart Snelson

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

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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