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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