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| Introduction | |
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| Science and Skeptical Inquiry | |
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| Science and the Public: Summing Up Thirty Years of the Skeptical Inquirer | |
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| In Defense of the Higher Values | |
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| Ann Druyan Talks about Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe ... and Carl Sagan | |
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| Carl Sagan's Last Q&A on Science and Skeptical Inquiry Supplemented with Ann Druyan's "The Great Turning Away" | |
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| Can the Sciences Help Us to Make Wise Ethical Judgments? | |
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| Science Wars: Science and the Bush Administration | |
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| Do Extraordinary Claims Really Require Extraordinary Evidence? | |
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| The Fallacy of Misplaced Rationalism | |
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| Critical Inquiry and Public Controversies | |
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| "We Find That Intelligent Design Is Not Science": Excerpts from the Dover Federal Court Ruling on Intelligent Design Introduction by Kendrick Frazier | |
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| The "Vise Strategy" Undone: Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District | |
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| Four Common Myths About Evolution | |
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| Only a Theory?: Framing the Evolution/Creation Issue | |
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| Is Intelligent Design Creationism? | |
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| The Memory Wars | |
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| AIDS Denialism vs. Science | |
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| Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming | |
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| The Global Warming Debate: Science and Scientists in a Democracy | |
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| A Skeptical Look at September 11th: How We Can Defeat Terrorism by Reacting to It More Rationally | |
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| Strong Response to Terrorism Not Necessarily a Symptom of Fallacious Statistical Reasoning or Human Cognitive Limitations | |
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| The Anti-Vaccination Movement | |
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| Vaccine Safety: Vaccines Are One of Public Health's Great Accomplishments | |
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| Warning: Animal Extremists Are Dangerous to Your Health | |
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| Predator Panic: A Closer Look | |
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| The Case for Decentralized Generation of Electricity | |
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| Understanding Pseudoscience, Investigating Claims | |
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| The Philosophy behind Pseudoscience | |
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| The Columbia University "Miracle" Study: Flawed and Fraud Supplemented with: Third Strike for Columbia University Prayer Study: Author Plagiarism | |
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| Anomalous Cognition: A Meeting of the Minds | |
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| Anomalous Cognition? A Second Perspective | |
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| The PEAR Proposition: Fact or Fallacy? Supplemented with: PEAR Lab Closes, Ending Decades of Psychic Research | |
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| Gary Schwartz's Energy Healing Experiments: The Emperor's New Clothes? | |
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| Testing Natasha | |
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| "Dr." Bearden's Vacuum Energy | |
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| Lessons of the "Fake Moon Flight" Myth | |
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| Magnet Therapy: A Billion-dollar Boondoggle | |
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| Oxygen Is Good-Even When It's Not There | |
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| Undercover among the Spirits: Investigating Camp Chesterfield | |
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| How to "Haunt" a House | |
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| The Devious Art of Improvising, Lessons One and Two | |
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| A Patently False Patent Myth-Still! | |
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| Contributors | |
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| References | |