His most famous book in this area is The Skeptical Environmentalist, whose English translation was published as a work in environmental economics by Cambridge University Press in 2001.

He is a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism.

" 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.

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 ).

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 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.

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?

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

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( CSI ), formerly known as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ), is a program within the U. S. non-profit organization Center for Inquiry ( CFI ), whose stated purpose is to " encourage the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and disseminate factual information about the results of such inquiries to the scientific community and the public.

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, formerly the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ), is an organisation that aims to publicise the scientific, skeptical approach.

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.

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.

" The Skeptical Inquirer is an international magazine, but is not a formal scientific journal.

Commenting on the labels " dogmatic " and " pathological " that the " Association for Skeptical Investigation " puts on critics of paranormal investigations, Robert Todd Carroll of the Skeptic's Dictionary argues that that association " is a group of pseudo-skeptical paranormal investigators and supporters who do not appreciate criticism of paranormal studies by truly genuine skeptics and critical thinkers.

Stackpole has been the executive director of the Phoenix Skeptics since 1988 and is listed as the contact for the group in the magazine Skeptical Inquirer.

He is also the founder and past chairman of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( formerly the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP )), the Council for Secular Humanism, and the Center for Inquiry.

She is also a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

The late 17th century natural philosopher Robert Boyle wrote a seminal work on the distinction between physics and metaphysics called, A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature, as well as The Skeptical Chymist, after which the modern science of chemistry is named, ( as distinct from proto-scientific studies of alchemy ).

Skeptical thinking essentially is a means to construct, understand, reason, and recognize valid and invalid arguments.

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

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 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.

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.

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 ).

* Butterfield, Stephen T. The Double Mirror: A Skeptical Journey into Buddhist Tantra.

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

The Double Mirror: A Skeptical Journey into Buddhist Tantra.

Skeptical researchers, such as Ernest Taves and Barry Singer, have noted how mysteries and the paranormal are very popular and profitable.

*" Bath Owners Skeptical ", The New York Times, June 22, 1921. piera antonella

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.

In 2007, he authored a book entitled Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming.

* Bjørn Lomborg: The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World.

* E & E. tv: Skeptical enviro Bjorn Lomborg discusses post-Kyoto roadmap, calls Kyoto " feel good strategy " ( OnPoint, 12 December 2007 )

* Kåre Fog's " Lomborg errors " website contains a catalogue of claims of errors in Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist, Fog's opinion on Lomborg and his career.

* Skeptical About The Skeptical Environmentalist, Richard M. Fisher's review of The Skeptical Environmentalist, in " The Skeptical Inquirer ".

The popularity of the term was enhanced by Bjørn Lomborg's book The Skeptical Environmentalist.

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.

", by Martin Gardner, in Skeptical Inquirer, Jan – Feb 1999.

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.

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

According to a report in the Skeptical Inquirer in 1997 no credible theory of psi has yet been presented.

* Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Organization formed in 1976 to promote scientific skepticism and encourage the critical investigation of paranormal claims and parapsychology.

* FindArticles. com Index Large number of articles about parapsychology, from publications such as the Journal of Parapsychology and the Skeptical Inquirer.

* FindArticles. com Index Large number of articles about parapsychology, from publications such as the Journal of Parapsychology and the Skeptical Inquirer.

* Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Organization formed in 1976 to encourage the critical investigation of paranormal claims and parapsychology.