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A 16-page booklet designed to hone your critical thinking skills. What questions to ask, what traps to avoid. Specific examples of how the scientific method is used to test pseudoscience and paranormal claims. Includes a how-to guide in developing a class in critical thinking. Includes:
- Sagan's Ten Tools for Baloney Detection
- Shermer's Ten Questions For Baloney Detection
- How Thinking Goes Wrong: The 25 Fallacies of Thought
- Eight Sample Syllabi: How to Teach a Course in Science & Pseudoscience
- Most Recommended Skeptical Books
- A Skeptical Manifesto
A valuable 16-page reference that summarizes classic creationist's claims, outlines science's rebuttals and analyzes the sociological aspects of the controversy. Only $5.00. Includes:
25 Creationists' Arguments & 25 Evolutionists' Answers, PLUS:
- An Evening with Duane T. Gish
- The Relationship of Science and Religion
- Evolution Denial and Holocaust Denial
- Debates and Truth
- What is Evolution?
- An Interview with Stephen Jay Gould
Skeptics Society Annual Fundraiser
The Skeptics Society is embarking on many large projects in the year ahead, and here's how you can help.
How to Create a Course in Skepticism
Ever wanted to see how to create a course that gives skepticism its due? Check out these college syllabi.
Shermer Interviews Online
Skeptic Society Director Michael Shermer has been receiving a lot of online press lately. Check it out at:
Deconstructing The Dead: Cross Over One Last Time To Expose Medium John Edward
History is not just one damn thing after another, it is also the same damn
thing over and over--time's arrow and time's cycle. Fads come and go, in
clothing, cars, and psychics. In the 1970s it was Uri Geller, in the 1980s it
was Shirley MacLaine, in the 1990s it was James Van Praagh, and to kick off
the new millennium it is John Edward.
Bookies have a saying, �There are three horses who have never come in win, place, or even show. Their names are
Coulda, Woulda, and Shoulda.�
The relationship between science and religion (S&R), and even the one between
skepticism and religion, is warming up. At least, that is the feeling one
gets from a cursory look at recent happenings, from the publication of books
and articles in popular magazines about science "finding" God, to the frantic
activities of the Templeton Foundation "for the furthering of religion." Two
scientists--Paul Davies, and most recently Freeman Dyson--received the
one-million dollar Templeton Prize for "progress in religion," the single
largest cash prize in history. S&R is not just warm, it's hot!
The week of 17 January 2000 began what could be one of the most important trials ever in the
ongoing debate about the limits of free speech. British author David Irving
is suing American author Deborah Lipstadt for libel.
Science has made the modern world....But we now have an overpopulation problem,
Updated! Selected articles from past issues of Skeptic Magazine are yours for the reading, with more to come
throughout the days ahead.
By Michael Shermer
A Quick & Dirty Guide To Chaos And Complexity Theory
Three Race Horses & Four Hobby Horses
The Baloney Detection Kit Fundraising Program is now underway! Donate to this worthy Skeptic cause, and
help our professors and college students become critical thinkers. Your donation is always tax-deductible.
Personal Gods, Deism, & the Limits of Skepticism
Giving the Devil His Due:
The Holocaust Denial Trial Tests the Limits of Free Speech
By Michael Shermer
The Most Precious Thing We Have:
The Difference Between Science and Pseudoscience
By Michael Shermer
 New AgeExistentialism
Nihilism
Marxism
Michael Shermer: Where Orthodoxy Meets Heresy
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Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? By Michael Shermer & Alex Grobman. A splendid study of the voices and sponsors of Holocaust denial. Shows how any historical fact is verified & proven, & then deals with the specifics of the deniers' falsifications. $27.95 plus S&H for the book.
Michael Shermer is not afraid to turn heads and challenge minds. Read the book, and learn how people seek God in the age of science. audio tape
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Another great read from the mind of Shermer. Why People Believe Weird Things explores why people, supposedly living in an enlightened era, continue to espouse strange ideas. $22.95 plus S&H; $6.95 plus S&H for audio tape
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