Welcome to Jourdemayne for commentary on the supernatural, folklore and skepticism.
If you’d like to root around for stuff on Monsters & Folklore, Modern Witch Beliefs, Politics & Religion and more, go to previous posts. It may surprise you how much our human capacity to believe in the supernatural remains as relevant today as it ever was.
The latest magazine is out now with great articles, interviews and all the regular favourites. You can buy it here. And remember, that if you subscribe now for the first time, there’s a 25% discount.
The latest issue is printed in colour throughout, and includes:
• Jon Ronson! Chris French finds out about stories and narrative in non-fiction with Jon Ronson
• ‘Heresiarch’ blogger and journalist Nelson Jones writes about The British Museum’s recent religious relics exhibition. Were people in the Middle Ages really so gullible about these objects as we might assume, and was the collection of these items solely a spiritual exercise?
• Neuroscientist Dean Burnett ponders the boundaries of pseudoscience with a look at a homeopathic cure for homosexuality
• Skeptic ghost-hunter Hayley Stevens considers the issue of impartiality at paranormal conferences: how easy is it to be a non-believer when it leaves you with nothing to sell?
• The Skeptic short interview: a very friendly horseman, Sam Harris talks about liberal values and occasionally being misunderstood
• Robert Brotherton examines the cognitive psychology of belief in conspiracy theories and follows up with a report from NYC upon the ten-year anniversary of 9/11
• Military historian and strategist, Lynette Nusbacher, discusses the role of the narrative in our contruction of events
• 31 Kylie Sturgess and Tessa Kendall report on skeptical activism with ‘Forty Days of Treats’, and the evidence in the abortion debate
• Crispian Jago’s ‘Alt-Med Flowchart’ – in print for the first time!
• All our regular columns, cartoons and features