Skeptic March 2020

CONSPIRACY •ANTI-AGING•LOGICAL FALLACIES•MEDITATION•CANCER http://www.skeptic.com Extraordinary Claims, Revolutionary Ideas & ...

More salons are listed on the inside back cover. Hear leading scientists, scholars, and thinkers discuss the most important issu ...

Dr. Michael Shermer’s audible ORIGINAL course A central principle of skepticism about conspiracy theories — never attribute to m ...

Skeptics Society Officers Michael Shermer Pat Linse Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Michael Shermer Co-publisher & Art Direc ...

EDITORIAL / ADVISORY BOARD CONTENTS Arthur Benjamin Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, Magician Roger Bingham Scienc ...

In St. Augustine, Florida, you can visit Ponce de León’s Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park for an admission fee of $18.00. T ...

Is Aging a Disease? Aging is not an inevitable consequence for all life. There are some organisms that do not experience any dec ...

6 SKEPTIC MAGAZINE volume 25 number 1 2020 COLUMN If you have attended a conference in the past decade, you undoubtedly will hav ...

appearance, or sex appeal. Ask for consent before you hug or rub the back of anyone you don’t know well or over whom you have p ...

ARTICLE 8 SKEPTIC MAGAZINE volume 25 number 1 2020 Ants stake out territories, boldly gathering foodeven from our dinner plates, ...

poke twigs to nab bugs. They can be socially manipula- tive; but then again so can just about any other social vertebrate, and e ...

ARTICLE 10 SKEPTIC MAGAZINE volume 25 number 1 2020 Since mid-December, there have been hundreds of reports of drones with unusu ...

miracles that were claimed to have occurred in at least 40 separate locations. Psychologist Jurek Ki- rakowski of Cork Universit ...

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This essay is derived from Lecture 1 of a 12-lecture course titled “Con- spiracies and Conspiracy Theories: What We Should Belie ...

Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. According to this theory, the only reason the Germans lost World War I was that they were stabbe ...

differ from a conspiracy theory? I define a conspiracy as two or more people plotting or acting in secret to gain an advantage o ...

agree with conspiratorial statements, such as “many major events have behind them the actions of a small group of influential pe ...

governor of New York and the Mayor of New York City. The plot was foiled, thanks only to the inepti- tude of the plotters to kee ...