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A Closer Look

What Darwin Got Wrong About the Female of (All) Species: by Carol Tavris

Articles

Cracking History: Chiropractic’s Secret Origin
by J. Michael Menke
Abducted!: Scientific Explanations of the Alien Abduction Experience
by J. Randal Montgomery
Persistent Belief: The Relative Implausibility of Certainty
by Richard Randall
Poking Holes in Needle-Spiking: Nightclub “Attacks” Scare Sweeps Europe
by Robert Bartholomew & Paul Weatherhead

Race Matters

: Cover illustration by Jeff Drew
Why Race Matters: by Michael Shermer
Systemic Racism—Explained: by Mahzarin R. Banaji, Susan T. Fiske & Douglas S. Massey
News Media & Declining Race Relations: Social Narratives More Than Real-Life Events May Be Driving Decline in Race Relations
by Chris Ferguson
Race & Policing: A Data-Driven Look at Policing and its Discontents
by Kevin McCaffree
Critical Race Theory: Noble Ends, Terrible Means
by Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay
Why Reparations and Equity Are Bad Ideas: by Jason D. Hill
Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: On Race and Jane Elliott’s Famous Experiment on Prejudice
by Stephen G. Bloom
Race & Medicine: by Harriet Hall, M.D. (aka the SkepDoc)

Review

Broadcasting Flapdoodle: A review of Radio Psychics: Mind Reading and Fortune Telling in American Broadcasting, 1920–1940 by John Benedict Buescher
by Michelle Ainsworth

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