Skeptic (Altadena, CA)

According to a new Yankelovich poll, commissioned by People for the American Way, an overwhelming 83% of Americans think Darwin's theory of evolution, not creationism, belongs in science class. Yet a CNNUSA Today-Gallup poll found that 68% of those...

WHY SOME BLACK ATHLETES DOMINATE SOME SPORTS AND WHAT IT REALLY MEANS IN AN ESSAY ON MAN, THE 19TH CENTURY English poet and essayist Alexander Pope elucidated the pitfalls of speculating on ultimate causes derived from immediate events: In vain...

WHY BLACK ATHLETES DOMINATE SPORTS AND WHY WE'RE No LONGER SO AFRAID TO TALK ABOUT IT IF YOU CAN BELIEVE that individuals of recent African ancestry are not genetically advantaged over those of European and Asian ancestry in certain athletic endeavors,...

CONVENTIONAL 0R ALTERNATIVE HEALING? WHAT SHOULD CHIROPRACTIC'S ROLE BE in the future of medicine? Should chiropractors position themselves as primary care physicians and take advantage of the current popularity of alternative medicine, or should...

They show up in your e-mail...the promise of money; material goods, or simply good luck--if you only forward that e-mail to 10 other people. Sound familiar? The chain letter has graduated, and is now an e-scam. We could have guessed it would happen....

WHAT IF FDR KNEW ABOUT PEARL HARBOR? Review of Robert B. Stinnett, Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, The Free Press, 2000, ISBN 0-684-85339-6, 374 pages, $26.00. WHEN A MAGICIAN pulls a rabbit out a purportedly empty hat, we...

JON ENTINE'S TABOO: WHY BLACK ATHLETES DOMINATE SPORTS AND WHY WE ARE AFRAID TO TALK ABOUT IT RACE IS TO AMERICA WHAT THE GODDESS DISCORD was to Homeric legends--invite her to the banquet and she brings trouble with her, ignore her and she visits...

GROUP SELECTION, NONZEROSUMNESS, AND THE HUMAN GAIA HYPOTHESIS HOLY LEVIATHAN! SUPERORGANISMS, once thought to be as imaginary as dragons, may actually exist. First James Lovelock proposed the Gaia hypothesis, which portrays life on earth as a giant...

Since SKEPTIC began in 1992 we have been following the debate about recovered memories versus false memories, with a strong slant to the probability that most so-called "recovered" memories of childhood sexual abuse, particularly those for which no...

For years SKEPTIC has tracked the ever-changing religious landscape of beliefs. Although overall rates of belief (and disbelief) remain steady, the variations within the numerous variables that go into what we know as religion and spirituality are...

AN INTERVIEW WITH EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST ERNST MAYR Ernst Mayr was born in Kempten, Germany, on July 5,1904, making him, at age 95, the grand old man of evolutionary biology, one of the primary architects of the modern synthesis of genetic and evolutionary...

THINKING THROUGH THOUGHT THERAPY As a practicing psychotherapist, I really appreciated the articles about Thought Field Therapy and EMDR (Vol. 7, No. 4). These "therapies" are promoted in otherwise reputable magazines like Family Therapy Net-worker,...

Observations on a Bizarre World URI GELLER & THE MOVING COMPASS TRICK IN JANUARY 2000 I appeared on ABC TV's morning talkshow The View, hosted by Barbara Walters and others. The occasion for the invitation was that they had hosted the well-known...

A review of The Watchdogs: A Close Look at Anti-Racist "Watchdog" Groups by Laird Wilcox, 1998, P.O. Box 2047, Olathe, KS: Editorial Research Service; with new Addenda, 1999, 103 pp. Softcover. $19.95. ISBN 0-993592-89-2. LAIRD WILCOX IS THE founder...