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Volume 31, Number 4
July / August 2007

• Buy this back issue
• Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming
• Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality
• Onward Science Soldiers
• Getting It Right, or Brooklyn Is Not Expanding
• Superhero Science
• New Findings Show Some Improvements in U.S. Science Literacy
• Feng Shui and Monkey Madness at the L.A. Zoo
• Psychic Events Workshop Fails APA Curriculum Requirement
• ‘Court TV’ Psychic Loses to Skeptic in Real Court

ARTICLES

Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming

Part 2

STUART D. JORDAN

The Fingerprint Controversy

SIMON A. COLE

The Earth and Stars in the Lunar Sky

WILLIAM C. KEEL

COMMENT AND OPINION

Onward Science Soldiers

VICTOR J. STENGER

SPECIAL REPORT

Little Audrey: The Life and Death of a ‘Victim Soul’

JOE NICKELL

Columns

Editor's Note

Hope for the Future, and Early Reaction on Global Warming

News and Comment

• New Findings Show Some Improvements in U.S. Science Literacy
• ‘Court TV’ Psychic Loses to Skeptic in Real Court
• CSI Executive Council Members Meet in D.C., Speak on Restoring Scientific Integrity
• Feng Shui and Monkey Madness at the L.A. Zoo
• Philadelphia Psychics Shut Down, Then Allowed to Reopen
• Stem Cells: President Bush Vows to Protect One-Celled People
• Psychic Events Workshop Fails APA Curriculum Requirement

INVESTIGATIVE FILES

Peru’s Ancient Mysteries

JOE NICKELL

THINKING ABOUT SCIENCE

Is Dawkins Deluded? When Scientists Talk about Religion

MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI

NOTES ON A STRANGE WORLD

The Quest for the ‘Real’ Robin Hood

MASSIMO POLIDORO

PSYCHIC VIBRATIONS

First They Came for Darwin, Then They Came for Copernicus and Galileo . . . .

ROBERT SHEAFFER

THE SKEPTICAL INQUIREE

Might Fright Cause White?

BENJAMIN RADFORD

NEW BOOKS

FORUM

Why I Burned a Bible

JOE SZIMHART

Getting It Right, or Brooklyn Is Not Expanding

RALPH ESTLING

The PhD Degree and Biblical Fundamentalism

WILLIAM D. STANSFIELD

The Two-Months Argument for Parapsychological Research

JESPER JERKERT

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

BOOK REVIEWS

The Stem Cell Controversy: Debating the Issues, 2nd Edition

By Michael Ruse and Christopher A. Pynes

KENNETH W. KRAUSE

An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam

By Taner Edis

HARRY EAGAR

Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior

By Lee McIntyre

PETER LAMAL

Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine

By Richard P. Sloan

KENNETH W. KRAUSE

The Power of Critical Thinking: Effective Reasoning about Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims

By Lewis Vaughn

DAVID W. CLAPSADDLE