Skeptic March 2020
comparison group is almost always “usual care.” Thus, any benefit in anxiety, feelings of depression, or qual- ity of life canno ...
islands of hope that patients can rely on to provide the best evidence-based “whole person” cancer care. Where Do We Go From Her ...
services to patients. This is likely due to both patient demand and integrative therapy practitioners “push” for inclusion. I wo ...
ARTICLE 40 SKEPTIC MAGAZINE volume 25 number 1 2020 Some people deny facts and truth. Others deny that facts and truth are in an ...
that I can dominate your reality, and there is nothing you can do about it.” The eminent historian of fascism Hannah Arendt prov ...
Words embody ideas, and their changing usage and meaning are tracked by lexicographers in dic- tionaries, which therein become b ...
boss.” The message, he says, referencing Jason Stanley’s book How Propaganda Works,^8 is “I am so powerful that I can dominate y ...
as a type specimen of post-truth, in which CNN’s Alisyn Camerota engages the former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingric ...
absorbed many of the radically relativistic attitudes that predominate in postmodern cultural anthropol- ogy. The central doctri ...
been led to believe. A 2020 book by the cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier, Not Born Yesterday, pres- ents a mountain of evidence ...
press, free trade, and accurate and trustworthy information. In a wide-ranging conversation for my Science Salon podcast, I aske ...
ARTICLE 48 SKEPTIC MAGAZINE volume 25 number 1 2020 World history is not a subject; it is all subjects. As soon as the world his ...
several similarities. In each case a small region (Serbia and Cuba, respectively) was the subject of controversy between major p ...
they created the character of Genghis Khan be- cause he suited their needs for an origin story. The differences between Christia ...
and went wild over Mao instead. (2) The Chinese will never have a Gorbachev. American policy analysts give the American-led “arm ...
ARTICLE 52 SKEPTIC MAGAZINE volume 25 number 1 2020 Lists and descriptions of logical fallacies, which exist both on and offline ...
form one legitimate one. His mistake was also not a variety of an appeal to popularity. “A million UFO true-believers can’t be w ...
More than anything else, this book illustrates the futility of attempting to either shoehorn the Bible into science or science i ...
population would never dip down to a single couple. I find proposition number 5 above to be particularly telling. Swamidass is a ...
descent from the higher primates is remi- niscent of what is called the day–age the- ory. This is the interpretation, by old ear ...
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