Skeptic Volume 3, Number 4 (1995): COSMOLOGY
Table of Contents
SKEPTIC: A Quarterly Publication of the Skeptics Society, Devoted
to the Investigation of Extraordinary Claims and Revolutionary Ideas
and the Promotion of Science and Critical Thinking
Features:
16 Skeptical News
Alien Autopsy Film; Skeptics on Oprah; Milk Miracle Makes Masses
Mental; More Skeptical Award Winners; Scientology Loses Judgement in
Internet Case; In Search of Feynman's Van; Space Alien Gets 20 Years;
"Alien" Professor Not Censured by Harvard; Skeptics Society Survey;
Want to End Entropy?--Join the Extropians!
22 Forum
22 Bell Curve Letters
The Bell Curve Tolls For Round Three; J. Philippe Rushton
Responds; The Pioneer Fund Replies; It's Always Good to Know Who's
Buying the Drinks; Here's to the Pioneers!; Skeptic Bias?; Richard
Lynn Replies; Halpern Replies to Lynn; On Halpern and Heritability;
Halpern Replies to Lilienfeld; The Flaw in Sarich's Ointment; What Is
In a Definition?; Sarich Replies; Bell Curve Blaze a Little Fire;
Revisionist Has A Somewhat Different Dream.
33 Other Forum Letters
A New Age Battlefield Souvenir; Pseudoscience Kills; Schmoozing
With Psychic Friends; Light Bulb Baby Food; Ramtha Speaks English?;
Singapore Needs Skeptics; Born Skeptical; Hal Lindsey Not
Representative; Loch Ness Photo Proof; Good Science and Bad; Duesberg
Deserves a Hearing; AIDS Absolutes; Kudos to Harris; Conspiratorial
Thinking Caused by Serotonin?; Revisionism Revised.
10 'Twas Brillig Commentary
An Adventure in Asia, or, How a Cultural Gap Can Lead to Total
Misunderstanding by James Randi.
12 The Clicker Culture
How That Handy Little Gadget Has Changed The Evening News by Teller.
13 Teller Talks About Ghosts
14 The Day I Met The Wizard:
Oz Comes to Kansas. Written and Illustrated by Eric Nauert.
36 "First of All, Do No Harm"
A Recovered Memory Therapist Recants-- An Interview With Robin
Newsome, by Mark Pendergrast.
80 Darwin's Dangerous Disciple
An Interview With Richard Dawkins by Frank Miele.
Special Section: Cosmology
42 Is There Really a Cosmological Crisis?
If The Stars Are Older Than the Universe Then We Have A Serious
Problem by Rick Shaffer.
46 Velikovsky's Believe it or
Not--Some Basic Claims of Velikovsky Written and
Illustrated by Pat Linse.
47 Velikovsky Still in Collision
by Ev Cochrane.
49 An Antidote to Velikovskian
Delusions by Leroy Ellenberger.
52 Velikovsky's Place In The History Of
Science--A Lesson On the Strengths and Limitations of
Science by Henry H. Bauer.
57 Can Science Prove God?
Frank Tipler's The Physics of Immortality is the Latest in a Long Line
of Attempts to Unite Science and Religion, by Bernard Leikind.
64 A Cosmological Dialogue-Caltech
Cosmologist Kip Thorne Discusses The Physics of Immortality with
Tulane Cosmologist Frank Tipler.
68 Hope Springs Eternal--Dr. Tipler
Meets Dr. Pangloss by Michael Shermer.
74 Physics' Balls and Schrödinger's
Kittens--Just Because our Treasured Theories of the
Sub-Atomic World Work Does Not Necessarily Mean They Are Revealing the
Ultimate Truth About What Goes On Inside Atoms by John Gribbin.
In Brief and In Review:
100 BOOKS in Brief
Books on Physics and Cosmology Discussed in the Special
Section on Cosmology
Black Holes & Time Warps:
Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Kip S. Thorne; God and the
Astronomers. New and Expanded Edition by Robert Jastrow; The Physics
of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God, and the Resurrection of the
Dead by Frank J. Tipler; The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling
Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe by
Eric J. Lerner; The Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-Up
Thinker by John Polkinghorne.
Additional Books on Physics and Cosmology Encyclopedia of Cosmology:
Historical, Philosophical, and Scientific Foundations of Modern
Cosmology. Edited by Norriss S. Hetherington; In The Beginning: The
Birth of the Living Universe by John Gribbin; The Physics of Star
Trek, By Lawrence M. Krauss. Foreword by Stephen Hawking; Dark Matter,
Missing Planets, & New Comets: Paradoxes Resolved, Origins Illuminated
by Tom Van Flandern.
Books Of General Skeptical Interest
Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery by Martin Gardner; Hitler and the
Occult by Ken Anderson; Morality In Our Age, An Audio Cassettes Series
from Knowledge Products. Narrated by Cliff Robertson and Robert
Guillaume; A Celebration of Humanism and Freethought by David Allen
Williams; Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse
of Visual Education by Barbara Maria Stafford.
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