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The Tiger That Isn’t: Seeing Through a World of Numbers

Profile Books, £7.99 (pb), ISBN 1846681111 The Tiger That Isn’t: Seeing Through a World of Numbers by Michael Blastland and Andrew DilnotReviewed by Michael HuttonOur lives...

The sinister side of public policy.

On 1st November, following the sacking of Prof David Nutt, Ryan O’Meara, Editor-in-Chief of K9 Magazine, published the podcast below exploring evidence based policy. He...

The Homo’s Made Us Do It

I think I can honestly say I've never been rendered speechless with anger before. However thanks to a one page document recently released by...

B Premanand 1930 – 2009.

Basava Premanand was India's leading skeptic and humanist; he published The Indian Skeptic and was a teacher, debunker,and performer.People compare him to James Randi,...

Why Statues Weep: The Best of the Skeptic

We are in the final stages of producing a "Best of the Skeptic" volume by the title of "Why Statues Weep". The Skeptic magazine...

The Open Habitat Project

Background information As part of the development of our internet presence The Skeptic Magazine is collaborating with the Open Habitat Project in...

Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal

OUP,  £20.00, ISBN 978-0-19-923920-7 A decade ago, Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont published Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers’ Abuse of Science, a book written to provide...

Jinn from Hyperspace: And Other Scribblings – Both Serious and Whimsical by Martin Gardner

Prometheus Books, ISBN-10: 1591025656 Another Gardner book is always good news, for both skeptics and aficionados of science and mathematics. Over the last fifty years,...
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