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.

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry have put forward the suggestion that the initial identification as a Bigfoot cast is problematic, as it was done by a Bigfoot researcher looking for evidence of Bigfoot, while his fellows only concurred after this identification was suggested to them and thereby validating the original identification.

For example, as promoters of intelligent design have increased their efforts to have this teaching included in school curricula in recent years, CSI has stepped up its own attention to the subject, creating an " Intelligent Design Watch " website and publishing numerous articles on evolution and intelligent design in Skeptical Inquirer and on the Internet.

* 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.

Skeptical Enquirer Volume 30, number 5 ( September / October 2006 ) p12.

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

In Skeptical Inquirer, Mark Moldwin argued that the important differences between the two projects were the acceptance of SETI by the mainstream scientific community and that " he methodology of SETI leads to useful scientific results even in the absence of discovery of alien life.

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 ".

Criticisms of the field were focused in the founding of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( 1976 ), now called the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and its periodical, Skeptical Inquirer.

He was described by his fellow authors of Skeptical ( David Vernon, Dr Colin Groves and Simon Brown ) as a 20th Century ' Renaissance Man ' as his interests were wide ranging from Melanesian languages, to channelling, Tarot cards and bawdy songs.

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.

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.

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.

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 ".

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

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.

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

In independent Armenia, environmental issues divide society ( and scientists ) sharply into those who fear " environmental time bombs " and those who view resumption of pollution-prone industrial operations as the only means of improving the country's economy.

In general, the International System of Units only uses capital letters for the symbols of units which are named after individual scientists, while au or a. u.

Arabic literature had contributions by thousands of figures, many of them are not only poets but are celebrates in other fields such as politicians, scientists and scholars among others.

Public entry to the island is by special-use permit from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service only and is generally restricted to scientists and educators.

At the time, nearly all use of computers required writing custom software, which was something only scientists and mathematicians tended to do.

Rainforests are widely believed by laymen to contribute a significant amount of world's oxygen, although it is now accepted by scientists that rainforests contribute little net oxygen to the atmosphere and deforestation has only a minor effect on atmospheric oxygen levels .< ref > Broeker, Wallace S. ( 2006 ).

Some scientists have predicted that unless significant measures ( such as seeking out and protecting old growth forests that have not been disturbed ) are taken on a worldwide basis, by 2030 there will only be 10 % remaining, with another 10 % in a degraded condition.

These results by the Berkeley scientists did not confirm the Soviet findings regarding the 9. 40 MeV or 9. 70 MeV alpha-decay of dubnium-260, leaving only dubnium-261 as possible produced isotope.

Responding to a frantic distress call from the overrun scientists, the Martian marine unit is quickly sent to Phobos to investigate, where the player character is left to guard the hangar with only a pistol while the rest of the group proceeds inside.

Clemence ( 1948 ) made it clear that his proposal was intended " for the convenience of astronomers and other scientists only " and that it was " logical to continue the use of mean solar time for civil purposes ".

There exist other formulations of rules, which are not in everyday language, understandable only to computer scientists.

There are methods but almost all are usable only by computer scientists.

Except for propositional logic, all are complex and can only be understood by mathematicians, logicians or computer scientists.

While scientists have learned a great deal about ours and other galaxies, the most fundamental questions about formation and evolution remain only tentatively answered.

The operation involves five teenage boys, who have each been chosen and trained by each of the five scientists, then sent to Earth independently in extremely advanced mobile suits ( one designed by each of the scientists ) known as " Gundams " ( called such because they are constructed from a rare and astonishingly durable material known as Gundanium alloy, which can only be created in outer space ).

The Great Auk was never observed and described by modern scientists during its existence, and is only known from the accounts of laymen, such as sailors, so its behaviour is therefore not well known and hard to reconstruct.

Public entry to the island is by special-use permit from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service only and is generally restricted to scientists and educators.

It was initially assumed the Mendelian inheritance only accounted for large ( qualitative ) differences, such as those seen by Mendel in his pea plants — and the idea of additive effect of ( quantitative ) genes was not realised until R. A. Fisher's ( 1918 ) paper, " The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance " Mendel's overall contribution gave scientists a useful overview that traits were inheritable.

The reactions needed to create such substances are familiar to scientists only at the much higher temperatures and pressures of earth and earth-based laboratories.

Because of their small size and the difficulty of crystallizing integral membrane proteins for X-ray analysis, it is only very recently that scientists have been able to directly examine what channels " look like.

By the early 1960s a few sheds, a century of accumulated trash, the scientists ' house from the late 1950s and a solid, short lighthouse-like day beacon built two decades before were the only signs of human habitation on Jarvis.

:: The point is, that scientists not only read Astounding-Analog, they were fans of the writers and understood all the Ideas, even the obscure Ideas that were merely hinted at.

No animal of any substantial size was found whatsoever and despite high hopes, the scientists involved in the expedition admitted that this essentially proved the Loch Ness monster was only a myth.

These " aether-wind " experiments led to a flurry of efforts to " save " aether by assigning to it ever more complex properties, while only few scientists like Emil Cohn or Alfred Bucherer considered the possibility of the abandonment of the aether concept.