Back Issues of RIT Newsletter

Back Issues of Independent Thinking Review:

Vol.1, No.1: Critical Thinking about Authority [$2.50]

• How to be Critical of Authority
• Send Your Child to Disobedience School
• Reviews of:
• Crimes of Obedience
• Obedience to Authority
• Faces of the Enemy
• Own Your Own Life
• Stick Up for Yourself! (children)

Vol.1, No.2: Critical Thinking about the Media [$2.50]

• How to Detect Bias in the News Media
• How to Detect Bias Against Women in the News Media
• How to Help Your Child Watch TV Critically
• Where to Find Resources for Media Literacy
• Interview with Noah's Ark hoaxer George Jammal
• Reviews of:
  • Unreliable Sources
  • Adventures in Medialand
  • Land of Idols
  • Strange Bedfellows

Vol.1, No. 3: Critical Thinking about Free Speech and Censorship [$2.50]

• Thinking Critically about Censorship and Pornography
• Resources for Anti-Censorship Activism
• Where to Find Independent/Alternative Media
• To PC or Not to PC: Both sides of the "political correctness" issue
• Feminist Anti-Censorship Groups
• Reviews of:
  • Kindly Inquisitors
  • Free Speech for Me But Not For Thee
  • Sex and Sensibility

Vol. 1, No. 4: Critical Thinking About Psychotherapy And Psychology [$2.50]

• What's right and wrong with current psychotherapy
• How to critically read media reports about psychological research
• How to pick a psychotherapist who's right for you
• How to pick a sensible self-help book
• Psychology books for children
• Reviews of:
  • Talking Back to Prozac
  • House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth
  • Reinventing Your Life
  • Authoritative Guide to Self-Help Book
  • They Say You're Crazy

Vol. 2, No. 1: Critical Thinking about Religion and Spirituality [$2.50]

• Interview with George Jammal, Noah's Ark hoaxer, Pt. II
• Reviews of:
  • Dark Side of Christian History
  • Hymns to an Unknown God
  • Guru Papers
  • Maybe Yes, Maybe No (critical thinking for kids)
  • Deadly Doctrine
• Nonreligious spirituality; Where to find humanist and freethought groups and magazines

Vol. 2, No. 2 Skepticism and the New Age [$3.00]

• "The New Age Gets Old" by Dixon Wragg
• Editorial: "Fundamentalist Skepticism: Who Needs It?" by Sharon Presley
• "Why People Believe in ESP for the Wrong Reasons" by Sharon Presley
• "Why There Just May Be a Rational Case for Agnosticism on the Existence
of ESP:" with excerpts from articles by Daryl Bem and Ray Hyman
• "A Few Basic Principles to Keep in Mind When Assessing New Age and Paranormal Claims" by Dixon Wragg
• "A Note on the History and Meaning of Skepticism" by George H. Smith
• Book reviews:
  • "How to Think about Weird Things" by Schick and Vaugh
    reviewed by George H. Smith
  • "The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science" by Robert Anton Wilson reviewed by Scott Apel
  • "Why People Believe Weird Things" by Michael Shermer
    reviewed by Sharon Presley
• Skeptic organizations and magazines
• and more...

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