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Subject: NEW: Skeptics - Skeptics Magazine Hotline
skeptics on http://lists.lyris.net Skeptics Society announce-only list
SKEPTIC MAG HOTLINE is the direct Internet link to Skeptic magazine and
the Skeptics Society, bringing you inside accounts of our latest
investigations (everything from testing a dentist who says he can dowse
for golf balls to national surveys to find out why people believe in God)
and media appearances, such as Skeptic magazine publisher Dr. Michael
Shermer's recent appearance on ABC's 20/20 in which he exposed medium
James Van Praagh as a psychic fake.
Upcoming lectures and conferences at the California Institute of
Technology (Caltech) are also announced, as well as newsworthy and
breaking stories of interest to skeptics and scientists all over the
world.
SKEPTIC magazine is the quarterly magazine of science and pseudoscience,
published by the Skeptics Society. It is devoted to investigating
controveries of all kinds, including acupuncture, therapeutic touch, and
other medical claims, cults and militias, conspiracy theories and fringe
political ideologies, pseudoscience and pseudohistory, evolutionary ethics
and evolutionary psychology, religion and myths, race and IQ, evolution
and creationism, cryonics and life extension, near-death experiences and
theories of immortality, and much more. Includes in-depth research
articles, essays and commentary, book reviews, and reader's forum.
The SKEPTICS SOCIETY is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational and scientific
organization headquarted in Southern California (P.O. Box 338, Altadena,
CA 91001; 626/794-3119; 626-794-1301 Fax), that publishes SKEPTIC
magazine, hosts a monthly lecture series at Caltech, conducts research and
investigations, houses an extensive research library on science and
pseudoscience, and makes numerous media appearances to provide a balanced
viewpoint on countless controversies in science and pseudoscience.
We hope you'll join us on the Skeptic Mag Hotline announce list.
To join: send any e-mail to join-skeptics@lyris.net *or* fill it
form at
http://www.lyris.net/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?join=skeptics
Note: you MUST follow directions in the resulting "confirmation" e-mail
reply to join.
Moderator: Michael Shermer http://www.skeptic.com
Owner: Randy Cassingham arcie@netcom.com http://www.thisistrue.com
Technical Advisor
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