Author: Taner Edis

Taner Edis is an associate professor of physics at Truman State University. His latest book is An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam (Prometheus Books, 2007).

Skepticism Needs More Historians and Social Scientists
 Skeptical Inquirer Volume 45, No. 5
September/October 2021
 Taner Edis

Organized skepticism has a reputation for attracting physicists and psychologists. To test that notion, I grabbed the March/April 2021 Skeptical Inquirer and looked at the affiliations of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) Fellows and its Scientific and Technical Consultants listed on the inside covers. According to my count, about 20 percent of the total …

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A Golden Age of Harmony? Misrepresenting Science and Hisotry in the 1001 Inventions Exhibit
 Skeptical Inquirer Volume 36, No. 6
November / December 2012
 Sonja Brentjes, Taner Edis
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Exorcising All the Ghosts
 Skeptical Inquirer Volume 28, No. 2
March / April 2004
 Taner Edis
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Darwin in Mind
 Skeptical Inquirer Volume 25, No. 2
March / April 2001
 Taner Edis
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Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modem Culture
 Skeptical Inquirer Volume 21, No. 5
September / October 1997
 Amy Sue Bix, Taner Edis
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Bashing the Science Bashers
 Skeptical Inquirer Volume 19, No. 2
March / April 1995
 Amy Sue Bix, Taner Edis
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