Show Me the Body

Purported sightings of Bigfoot, Nessie and Ogopogo fire our imaginations. But anecdotes alone do not make a science

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Michael Shermer is publisher of Skeptic magazine (www.skeptic.com) and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. His new book is Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia (Henry Holt, 2018).

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 288 Issue 5This article was originally published with the title “Show Me the Body” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 288 No. 5 ()
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican052003-WyDTLbGSWSyYMtA63cGNC

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