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Why Statues Weep: The Best of the Skeptic

Wendy M. Grossman -
We are in the final stages of producing a "Best of the Skeptic" volume by the title of "Why Statues Weep". The Skeptic magazine...
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The Open Habitat Project

Phil -
Background information As part of the development of our internet presence The Skeptic Magazine is collaborating with the Open Habitat Project in...
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Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal

Paul Taylor -
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...
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Jinn from Hyperspace: And Other Scribblings – Both Serious and Whimsical by Martin Gardner

Paul Taylor -
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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Counter-Knowledge: How we Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History by Damian Thompson

Paul Taylor -
Atlantic Books,  £7.99 (pb), ISBN 10: 1843546760 This book is an impressive new addition to the now well-established genre of sceptical works critiquing largely irrational...
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The Paperback Apocalypse: how the Christian Church was left behind by Robert M. Price

Paul Taylor -
Prometheus Books, £12.99 (pb), ISBN-10: 1591025834 This book could probably only have been published in America, though it may not be as widely read there...
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2012: The Year Of The Mayan Prophecy by Daniel Pinchbeck

Paul Taylor -
Piatkus, £9.99 (pb), ISBN-10: 0749927607 Many non-mainstream thinkers are currently focusing on the now familiar fact that the 5000-year Mayan “Long Count” reaches an endpoint...
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Occult London by Merlin Coverley

Paul Taylor -
Pocket Essentials, £9.99  (hb), ISBN 978-1-904048-88-6 It’s hard to see the purpose of this book, which offers no new insights or information, just a series...
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