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Volume 30, Number 3
May/June 2006

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• SETI Requires a Skeptical Reappraisal
• The Cosmic Haystack Is Large
• The New Approach to SETI
• Teaching Pigs to Sing: An Experiment in Critical Thinking
• The PEAR Proposition: Fact or Fallacy?
• Why Scientists Shouldn't Be Surprised by the Popularity of Intelligent Design

Articles

SETI Requires a Skeptical Reappraisal

PETER SCHENKEL

The Cosmic Haystack Is Large

Jill Tarter

Astrobiology Is the New Modern Framework Encompassing SETI . . . and So Much Else

David Morrison

The New Approach to SETI Is from the Bottom Up, Rather Than the Top Down

David Darling

Teaching Pigs to Sing

An Experiment in Bringing Critical Thinking to the Masses

HARRIET HALL

The Real Sword in the Stone

LUIGI GARLASCHELLI

Why Scientists Shouldn't Be Surprised by the Popularity of Intelligent Design

Perspectives from Psychology

SCOTT O. LILIENFELD

'Curing' ADHD

ALAN D. BOWD

The PEAR Proposition: Fact or Fallacy?

STANLEY JEFFERS

Public Health's Credibility Crisis

ELIZABETH M. WHELAN

Intelligent Design and the Workings of Science

MICHAEL FRIEDLANDER

Columns

Editor's Note

Are We Alone? A Searching Look at SETI

News and Comment

• AAAS Events, Statement Expound Evolution, Decry ID
• AAAS: 'Deeply Concerned about Legislation and Policies That Would Undermine the Teaching of Evolution'
• U.S. 'Out on a Limb by Ourselves' in Evolution Rejection, Jon Miller Tells AAAS
• Neil deGrasse Tyson to host NOVA scienceNOW
• Studies on Soy and Arthritis-relief Supplements Give Negative Results
• James Randi's Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas
• Darwin's Birthday, Hollywood Style
• Irving Rothchild Dead at 92
• CSICOP Announces Winners of the First Robert P. Balles Prize

Investigative Files

The 'New' Idolatry

Joe Nickell

Thinking About Science

Is Physics Turning into Philosophy?

Massimo Pigliucci

Notes on a Strange World

Circles of Light

Massimo Polidoro

The Skeptical Inquiree

Mysteries of the Coral Castle

Benjamin Radford

New Books

Science Best Sellers

Letters to the Editor

Book Reviews

SHAM: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless

By Steve Salerno

One Nation under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance

By Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel, M.D.

TERENCE M. HINES

Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown

By Michael Shermer

DAVID LUDDEN

Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe

By George Johnson

GREG MARTINEZ