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:

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

On October 9, 2010 Committee for Skeptical Inquiry announced Scott ( and others ) as a part of their policy-making Executive Council, she will also serve on Skeptical Inquirers magazine board.

In Skeptical Inquirer's Naked Skeptic column by Karen Stollznow she discusses RMPRS's investigation of The Stanley Hotel, " During the investigation, The Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society researched popular beliefs and claims ; they solved some mysteries, they performed valuable outreach, and they maintained the historical integrity of the Stanley Hotel.

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.

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.

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 in tone, it held that the law should be understood and determined by the actual practices of courts, law offices, and police stations, rather than as the rules and doctrines set forth in statutes or learned treatises.

" Journalist Ronald Bailey called the criticism " disturbing " and " dishonest ", writing, " The subhead of the review section, ' Science defends itself against The Skeptical Environmentalist, gives the show away: Religious and political views need to defend themselves against criticism, but science is supposed to be a process for determining the facts.

The Skeptical Inquirer in a review of a later book by de Grazia, Cosmic Heretics ( 1984 ), suggests that de Grazia's efforts may be responsible for Velikovsky's continuing notability during the 1970s.

" In his article for Skeptical Inquirer Radford concludes that ghost hunters should care about doing a truly scientific investigation " I believe that if ghosts exist, they are important and deserve to be taken seriously.

Skeptical civilians and journalists are told that multinational Communism is what the U. S. will be fighting in Vietnam ; proof: weapons and equipment, captured from North Vietnamese soldiers and Viet Cong guerrillas, originating in the Soviet Union, Communist Czechoslovakia, and Communist China.

Previously obscure, the DCSD became embroiled in controversy after its January 2003 decision that the 2001 book The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjørn Lomborg was " clearly contrary to the standards of good scientific practice ", due to the author's systematically biased choice of data, and objectively was scientifically irredeemable, but Lomborg himself could not be subjectively convicted of intentional or gross negligence.

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:

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.

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.

Organizations that encourage a critical examination of parapsychology and parapsychological research include the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, publisher of the Skeptical Inquirer ; the James Randi Educational Foundation, founded by illusionist and skeptic James Randi, and the

Skeptical scholars have questioned the historicity of the resurrection story for centuries ; for example, " nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century biblical scholarship dismissed resurrection narratives as late, legendary accounts.

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.

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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 ).

" This improvement of protocols later led James Randi to list a " straight spoon " award to Phillips in a press release of his " bent spoon " awards, but that award was omitted from the list of awards published by Omni magazine and the Skeptical Inquirer ; it was reported in the latter in a subsequent letter to the editor.

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* La Légende Sceptique ( 1889 ) translated as The Skeptical ; Legend included in The Navigators of Space, 2010, q. v.

* Post, Truman M. The Skeptical Era in Modern History ; Or, The Infidelity of the Eighteenth Century, the Product of Spiritual Despotism.

; Skeptical: a formula is entailed by a default theory if it is entailed by all its extensions ;

* The Skeptical Environmentalist ; Harvey was prominent among the many critics of this book.

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He also joined an American sceptical society ; CSICOP ( now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ) and investigated / debunked several such claims.

* Loretto Chapel Staircase ; Investigative Files, Skeptical Inquirer November 1998

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.

Skeptical that this Israel was actually the son of King Kaleb, Munro-Hay suggests that Israel may have been better than the other kings between him and Kaleb ( or Gabra Masqal ), and tradition compressed the succession.

In 1992 an article by Ertel in The Skeptical Inquirer used the methods of his 1988 JSE article to demonstrate that the Mars effect is present in CSICOP ’ s own data and Ertel later contacted Kurtz asking about the way the Zelen test had been conducted.

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 Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, which has similar goals, had already been founded in 1976.

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

Skeptical at first, John agrees.

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

Skeptical at first, the more time he spent with her the more he realized this was truly Beth Raines.