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COLUMNS Skeptical Inquirer EDITOR'S NOTE 4 March/April 2003 • VOL 27, NO. 2 NEWS AND COMMENT AAAS Board Urges Opposing 'Intelligent Design' Theory in Science ARTICLES Classes / Death, Taxes, and Failed Psychic Predictions: Tabloid Psychics Fail Again In 2002 / Bigfoot Hoaxer Dies; Legacy Lives On 37 The Blank Slate / 'Miss Cleo' Settles with the Federal Trade Commission / South Park TV Satire Skewers John Edward Psychic Pretensions / Clone The Modern Denial of Human Nature Claims Result in Publicity But No Proof / Dean, Krauss, Stenger, Many intellectuals and social critics have still not moved Wilson Elected CSICOP Fellows 5 beyond the simplistic dichotomy between heredity and environment to acknowledge that all behavior comes out of COMMENTARY an interaction between the two. The author explores wiry the I lessons of the 'Fake Moon Flight' Myth extreme position (that culture is everything) is so often seen as moderate, and