In the chapter on climate change in his 2001 book A Skeptical Environmentalist he states ; " This chapter accepts the reality of man-made global warming but questions the way in which future scenarios have been arrived at and finds that forecasts of climate change of 6 degrees by the end of the century are not plausible.

* " A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper " by Martin Gardner

* " A Sceptical Look at ' A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper '" by J C Lester.

This claim was put forth in The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry Into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory, written by the aforementioned William Matthews, a British professor who taught at UCLA ( and is most famous for his transcription of the Diary of Samuel Pepys ).

Skeptical hypotheses in philosophy suggest that reality is very different from what we think it is ; or at least that we cannot prove it is not.

Edmond de Goncourt modeled his acrobat-mimes in his The Zemganno Brothers ( 1879 ) upon them ; J .- K. Huysmans ( whose Against Nature would become Dorian Gray's bible ) and his friend Léon Hennique wrote their pantomime Skeptical Pierrot ( 1881 ) after seeing them perform at the Folies Bergère.

* The Sudarium of Oviedo at Skeptical Spectacle

Skeptical at first, Staubach told Smith to spend some time at his company's offices during the spring and summer if he was sincere.

Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire and a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( CSI ) has said that he agrees remote viewing has been proven using the normal standards of science, but that the bar of evidence needs to be much higher for outlandish claims that will revolutionize the world, and thus he remains unconvinced:

It carries out investigations aimed at understanding paranormal reports in terms of scientific understanding, and publishes its results in its journal, the Skeptical Inquirer.

Books VII-XI of Against the Mathematicians form an incomplete whole ; scholars believe that at least one, but possibly as many as five books, are missing from the beginning of the work that was originally entitled Skeptical Treatises ( Skeptika Hupomnēmata ).

Then Professor Marvin Zelen, a statistician and associate of the recently founded Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP, now known as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( CSI )), proposed in a 1976 article in the same periodical that, in order to eliminate any demographic anomaly, Gauquelin randomly pick 100 athletes from his data-set of 2, 088 and check the birth / planet correlations of a sample of babies born at the same times and places in order to establish a control group, giving the base-rate ( chance ) expectation for comparison ( The 100 random athletes later expanded into a subsample of 303 athletes ).

Bem's response to Alcock's critique appeared online at the Skeptical Inquirer website and Alcock replied to these comments in a third article at the same website.

Skeptical science writer Dennis McKinsey has challenged the view that the term refers to Jesus at all and argues that Jewish tradition knew of no historical Jesus.

Skeptical at first, John agrees.

In his personal life, Davis is an avid water-skier, works with the Canadian Cancer Society and lectures on skepticism most recently at Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's CSICON.

Skeptical at first, he managed to work the two monsters into the film.

He presented a paper at a conference on Paranormal and Superstitious Beliefs: A Skeptical Examination at Manchester Metropolitan University on Friday 13 November 1998.

The Skeptical School of early Chinese history, started by Gu Jiegang in the 1920s, was the first group of scholars within China to seriously question the traditional story of its early history: " the later the time, the longer the legendary period of earlier history ... early Chinese history is a tale told and retold for generations, during which new elements were added to the front end ".

Skeptical of the Natives ' diet of corn and " other organically grown vegetables ," Columbus wants to open " America's first Italian restaurant " and needs to cash a check to get started:

Skeptical males said she would be lucky to get three applicants ; actually she had 151 the first year ( 1918 ), and had to turn many away ever since.

Easterbrook published a 1995 book A Moment on the Earth, subtitled " the coming age of environmental optimism ," presaged Bjørn Lomborg's book The Skeptical Environmentalist, first published in Danish three years later, and argued that many environmental indicators, with the notable exception of greenhouse gas production, are positive.

Skeptical scientists only increased in number as more fossils were found.

Benjamin Radford, science writer and deputy editor of the science magazine Skeptical Inquirer, casts doubt on the plausibility of spontaneous human combustion, " If SHC is a real phenomenon ( and not the result of an elderly or infirm person being too close to a flame source ), why doesn't it happen more often?

Robert Blaskiewicz writing for Skeptical Inquirer Magazine states that conspiracies about the airport range from the " absurd to the even more absurd ".

" Skeptical Eye " and other columns disappeared, and articles covered more controversial, speculative topics like " How the Universe Will End ".

Skeptical of superstition, he is somewhat ahead of his time, and much accurate historical detail is woven into the adventures.

In The New Inquisition, Robert Anton Wilson, recognized episkopos, pope, and saint of the parody religion Discordianism, lampoons the members of skeptical organizations like the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP — now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ) as fundamentalist materialists, alleging that they dogmatically dismiss any evidence that conflicts with materialism as hallucination or fraud.

Skeptical and thinking someone is playing a practical joke on him, he wishes that she stay with him forever.

The Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( CSI ) with the subtitle: The magazine for science and reason.

Following a no-confidence vote against Truzzi, he resigned, and the magazine was ( starting with volume 2, issue 2 ) retitled Skeptical Inquirer and Kendrick Frazier ( former editor of Science News ) became the new editor.

Skeptical about the replacement players, they nevertheless follow McGinty's recommendations and find ways to work with the ragtag group of players.

For example, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry published an article by Chris Mooney titled " Not Too ' Bright '" in which he stated that, although he agreed with the movement, Richard Dawkins ' and Daniel Dennett's " campaign to rename religious unbelievers ' brights ' could use some rethinking " because of the possibility that the term would be misinterpreted.

Skeptical archaeologists see the electrical experiments as embodying a key problem with experimental archaeology, saying that such experiments can only show that something was physically possible, but do not confirm that it actually occurred.

Professor of Psychology, member of CSI and Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, James Alcock after evaluating Bem's 9 experiments claimed to have found metaphorical " dirty test tubes ", serious methodological flaws such as changing the procedures partway through the experiments and combining results of tests with different chances of significance.

The Skeptical Inquirer described it as a " a British institution with no building, campus, faculty, or president, and run from a post office box in Sioux Falls, South Dakota ".

In Skeptical Inquirer magazine in 2011, longtime investigator Joe Nickell compared Rydén's " messages " to alleged communications from Jesus to other women claiming revelations and wrote, " the contrived handwriting, the linguistic lapses, and the indications of fantasizing all suggest that Vassula Ryden is not in touch with supernatural entities but is simply engaging in self-deception that in turn deceives the credulous.

Skeptical of the received rules of evidence that he had taught as a professor, he worked to integrate the findings of psychology, sociology and logic with the law.

The Skeptical Analysis of the Paranormal Society ( SAPS ) was founded with the intent to recreate and debunk segments of the show.

In May 2004 she was brought to New York City by the Discovery Channel to appear on a documentary titled The Girl with X-Ray Eyes, and to be tested by skeptical researchers from the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( CSI ) under partially controlled conditions.

" The Skeptical Inquirer, among others, revealed that he purchased his Ph. D. from Trinity College and University, which the magazine describes as " a British institution with no building, campus, faculty, or president, and run from a post office box in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

* “ What does Pyrrhonism have to do with Pyrrho ?”, in Ancient Skepticism and the Skeptical Tradition: Acta Philosophica Fennica 66 ( 2000 ), p. 11-33.

Through the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, publisher of Skeptical Inquirer magazine, the Center for Inquiry evaluates claims of the paranormal ( phenomena allegedly beyond the range of normal scientific explanations ), such as psychic phenomena, ghosts, communication with the dead, and alleged extraterrestrial visitations.