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- 9/11: Debunking The Myths: Popular Mechanics examines the evidence and consults the experts to refute
the most persistent conspiracy theories of September 11 
- Judge rules against Dover school board York Daily Record The Complete Legal Opinion

- Would Stephen Jay Gould Have Signed the “Steves” List? By Jason Rosenhouse CSICOP's Intelligent Design Watch

- Undoing Darwin By Chris Mooney and Matthew C. Nisbet from the Columbia Journalism Review

- Curing Naturally: A show on the healing power of herbs points up the importance of knowing their strengths, limitations -- and dangers By Ron Sullivan from the S. F. Chronicle
- 13 things that do not make sense: Scientific Mysteries abound. By Michael Brooks from the NewScientist.com news service
- Chiropractic school angers FSU professors: Some threaten to resign over the proposed school. By Ron Matus from the St. Petersburg Times
- Sharper Image fogs up: Consumer Reports says Ionic Breeze air purifier.doesn't work By David Lazarus from the S.F.Chronicle
- Blinded By Science: How "Balanced" Coverage Lets the Scientific Fringe Hijack Reality By Chris Mooney from the Columbia Journalism Review
- The Columbia University 'Miracle' Study: Flawed and Fraud by Bruce Flamm
from the Skeptical Inquirer
- 'Rescue of Nigerian Astronaut Stuck in Space' is judged the Most Outrageous example of 'Advance-Fee' emails from the Consumer Protection Board (NY)
- UFO No Longer Unidentified from the NASA Website
- Evolution Education Down to a Science on Web by David Perlman
from the San Francisco Chronicle
- Astrology is Bigotry by Bob Steiner
from Professionals Against Confidence Crime website
- Two articles on "Sensory Integration." -- Suggested by Linda Rosa
-- Against: A School Psychologist Investigates Sensory Integration Therapies: Promise, Possibility, and the Art of Placebo by Steven R. Shaw, Ph.D., NCSP -- For: Empirical Evidence Related to Therapies for Sensory Processing Impairments by Lucy Jane Miller, Ph.D., OTR
- Welcome to Planet Earth by Robert L. Park, from The Sciences, May, 2000
All about the origins of the Roswell, NM. UFO stories.
- 'Master' and 'slave' computer labels unacceptable, officials say from CNN (Reuters)
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
- Superbomb Ignites Science Dispute from The S.F. Chronicle
Pentagon advisers challenge experiments behind nonnuclear weapon.
- Permits for Fortune Tellers Passes from The S.F. Chronicle
Crystal-ball crackdown -- new S.F. fortune-teller law
- The Seven Warning Signs of a Bogus Science
by Robert L. Park from Quackwatch
- Permits for Fortune Tellers from The S.F. Chronicle
S.F. may soon see psychics regulated. Pioneering proposal would ban trickery
- Brain probe triggers out-of-body experiences from The New Scientist
Out-of-body experiences can be induced by stimulating a part of the brain called the right angular gyrus, Swiss researchers have discovered.
- Profile of Eugenie C. Scott from The Scientist
Dr. Scott is Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education and a board member of Bay Area Skeptics.
- Psych Sleuth by Kevin Fagan (S.F. Chronicle)
Margaret Singer has made history delving into the psychology of brainwashing.
- The Universe in the Classroom How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time.
Published by the American Astronomical Society and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for teachers.
- Psychic Sophistry by Tony Youens
How "cold reading" works.
- Saving Us from Darwin: Part I and Part II by Frederick C. Crews
A survey of books about the religion/evolution debate from The New York Review
- Five articles from the American Medical Association
about biological weapons (including Anthrax and Smallpox) without the media hype. from JAMA (read these free of charge)
- Randi Accused of Psychic Sabotage
Now it can be told! Internet spoon bending foiled by Negative Energy. from Psychic Magazine
- Religious preaching makes these books unfit for use in public schools
by Bill Bennetta
- Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations
A review of the John Diamond's last book by Michael Bywater
- American belief in the Paranormal is up in last decade
by the Gallop Organization
- Douglas Adams, creator of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," dies
by Richard Dawkins
- Darwin called Racist by Fiona Morgan
- Damned Lies and Statistics by Joel Best
- Errant Texts: Why some schools may not want to go by the book (Part One)
- ...and Part Two
- Sideshows of Science
As knowledge expands, so do the ranks of believers in fakery
- The Dubious Data 2000 Awards:
The top ten silliest, most misleading stories of the new millennium
- Federal Trade Commission's site listing the top ten web scams
Who says the government can't do anything right?
- Good Science, Bad Science: Teaching Evolution in the States
by BAS advisor Lawrence S. Lerner
- Harry Potter and the Chain of Fools:
Report on a chain letter
- The Quackatorium 'Nuff said!
- Speed of Light still holds. "Warp One only, Scotty!"
- Ig Nobel Prize Winners. See also "Yogi Runs for President."
- Curing the Therapeutic State
Thomas Szasz on the medicalization of American life. Interviewed by Jacob Sullum
- Did Einstein Cheat? by John Farrell
- Press Release: Big Biology Books Fail to Convey
Big Ideas, Reports AAAS's Project 2061
- Organic Molecule (Sugar) Found in Space,
NASA Science News
- "The Cargo-Cult Science of Subliminal Persuasion,"
Skeptical Inquirer,
Spring 1992. By Anthony R. Pratkanis
- New Scientist says Creationism is far from Extinct
Bay Area Skeptics Director Eugenie C. Scott, Ph.D. is quoted.
- A definition of Modern Skepticism.
- In Search of the Fur Bat by Paul Lafarge.
The True Story of Psychical Research at Stanford University
- Charles Darwin's books on-line
- A detailed introduction to Stephen Jay Gould and his ideas
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