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Volume 24 Issue 1: Jane Goldman

Features

Jane Goldman: the skeptic and writer shares her love of skepticism and the supernatural with editor Deborah Hyde.

Nelson Jones: looks at the big-game sightings on the savannahs of England in 'Catflap'.

Phillip Stott and Toby Murcott delve into scientific philosophy, to discover the sceptical thinking that isn’t in 'Scepticism and Science'.

Kathryn Harkup kicks off a new 'science of the supernatural series' with 'Zombies are People Too'. 

Dean Burnett ponders the fashionable misuse of neuroscience in 'Neuropseudoscience'. 

Gijsbert Stoet and David Geary review the stereotype threat theory in 'Why Are There Fewer Women Working in Science & Technology?'

We have a brilliant four page pull-out poster, Crispian Jago's 'Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense'

Plus all the regular features, reviews and columns from Chris French, Wendy Grossman, Michael Heap, Mark Duwe and Mark Williams.

Paul Kurtz, Father of Secular Humanism, dies aged 86

The following article is a press release from Prometheus Books, of which Kurtz was founder. Are more personal article was published by Kurtz' former colleague , R Joseph Hoffman, on his blog. The photograph of Kurtz has also been reproduced from Hoffman's blog.

Paul Kurtz, philosopher, prolific author, publisher, and founder of several secular humanist institutions as well as the for-profit independent press Prometheus Books, died on Saturday, October 20, 2012 at his home in Amherst, New York. He was 86.

Professor Kurtz was widely heralded as the "father of secular humanism." With his fifty plus books (many translated into foreign languages around the world), multitudinous media appearances and public lectures, and other vast and seminal accomplishments in the organized skeptic and humanist movements, he was certainly the most important secular voice of the second part of the 20th century. He was an ardent advocate for the secular and scientific worldview and a caring, ethical humanism as a key to the good life. 

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