Skeptic  |  25.4
QANON & CONSPIRACIES
Our 100th issue of Skeptic Magazine!
COLUMNS
The SkepDoc: New Rumpelstiltskin? How Gwyneth Paltrow Spins Straw into Gold, by Harriet Hall, M.D.
ARTICLES
Conspiracy Theories: Why We Can't Unsee Patterns — Real or Imagined — Once We See Them • QAnon in Conspiratorial Context • QAnon is Just a Warmed Over Witch Panic (and It’s Also Very Dangerous) • Fat Man and Little Boy: On the 75th Anniversary of Nuclear Weapons, a Moral Case for Their Use in Ending WWII and the Deterrence of Great Power Wars Since, and a Call to Eventually Eliminate Them • The Rise and Fall of Charles Willson Peale’s Philadelphia Museum • The Testimony of Witnesses: Raising the Dead • Do Diversity Training Programs Work? Creating a Culture of Inclusion through Scientific Reasoning • Unpacking Political Life in America: The Skeptics Society’s Social and Political Attitudes Study • How Do You Get People to Care About Truth in Politics? • Are Laws of Nature Discovered or Invented?
100TH ISSUE SPECIAL
The Art of the Skeptic: Finding Your Niche if You Love Both Science and Art
REVIEWS
Reviews of: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender and Identity; Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West
JUNIOR SKEPTIC
The Honest Truth About Vaccines
by Daniel Loxton
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Skeptic 25.4.