Skeptics view this as a way for parents to avoid proper ( and generally pharmaceutical ) pediatric treatment or a psychiatric diagnosis.

Skeptics of New World Order conspiracy theories accuse its proponents of indulging in the furtive fallacy, a belief that significant facts of history are necessarily sinister ; conspiracism, a world view that centrally places conspiracy theories in the unfolding of history, rather than social and economic forces ; and fusion paranoia, a promiscuous absorption of fears from any source whatsoever.

The Skeptic is used extensively by the media in Australia seeking an alternative view on many of the issues examined by the Australian Skeptics.

Skeptics may deny the more startling phenomena of dreams as things they have never personally observed, but failure to wonder at their basic mystery is outright avoidance of routine evidence.

Skeptics claim that many of the allegedly hominin-like features seen in the Ardipithecus material are found elsewhere among living and fossil primates, and that claims about its hominin status and locomotor habits are not adequately supported by the available evidence.

Skeptics such as Antony Flew have cited the lack of such a theory as their reason for rejecting the evidence for psi.

Skeptics have also contended that people's desire to believe in paranormal phenomena causes them to discount strong evidence that it does not exist.

Skeptics argue there is strong evidence that the briefing document and Truman letter are fake.

Skeptics generally consider beliefs in the extraterrestrial hypothesis ( ETH ) and psychic powers as misguided, since no empirical evidence exists supporting such phenomena.

Skeptics disagreed with that conclusion, pointing to the lack of scientific evidence.

Skeptics argue that evidence would suggest that the Bavarian Illuminati was nothing more than a curious historical footnote since there is no evidence that the Illuminati survived its suppression in 1785.

Skeptics dismiss his saga as a folktale, but no conclusive evidence exists either way.

Skeptics of claims involving ghosts and near-death experiences, such as Mobb and Watt ( 2011 ) have found evidence from MRI studies that experience of other-worldly substances may be due to neurotransmitter levels in the brain.

Skeptics argue that no scientific evidence has been found to support them.

Skeptics point to her 1966 marriage and some media reports as evidence that she was born before 1951.

Skeptics of Chow point to there being no evidence that his earthquake predictions are anything but claims made after the events took place.

Jasmuheen was awarded the Bent Spoon Award by Australian Skeptics in 2000 (" presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle ").

Skeptics can give new skeptical cases that wouldn't be subject to the same response ( e. g., one where the person was very recently turned into a brain in a vat, so that their words " brain " and " vat " still pick out real brains and vats, rather than simulated ones ).

She was awarded the Bent Spoon Award by Australian Skeptics in 2000 (" presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle ").

A branch of the popular Skeptics in the Pub movement was created in 2011 in Lewes, based at the Elephant and Castle.

She is a Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ) and in 1991 was awarded the CSICOP Distinguished Skeptic Award .< ref > A Who's Who of Media Skeptics: Skeptics or Dogmatists ?.

The Skeptic a newsletter of The North Texas Skeptics, reported in 1989 on criticism from a participant that was a staff volunteer until becoming disgruntled with the organization.

Skeptics have claimed that Lin's decision to flee to the Soviet Union was illogical, on the grounds that the United States or Taiwan would have been safer destinations.

According to the book Skeptics Dictionary, Chopra's " mind-body claims get even murkier as he tries to connect Ayurveda with quantum physics .” Chopra also participated in the Channel 4 ( UK ) documentary The Enemies of Reason, where, when interviewed by scientist Richard Dawkins, he admitted that the term " quantum theory " was being used as a metaphor and that it has little to do with the actual quantum theory in physics.

Before starting the Skeptics Society, Shermer was a professor of the history of science at Occidental College, California.

The series, which was budgeted at approximately $ 200, 000USD per episode, was viewed by Shermer as a direct extension of the work done at the Skeptics Society and Skeptic magazine, and would enable Shermer to reach more people.

Skeptics were silenced when Owens started the game and played well ; the result was nine receptions and 122 yards, though the Eagles still lost to the New England Patriots.

He was co-founder of the Australian Skeptics.

The Skeptics Society was originally founded as a Los Angeles-area skeptical group to replace the defunct Southern California Skeptics.

The Skeptics Society was formed in 1992, and,, it has 55, 000 members worldwide including Bill Nye " The Science Guy ", Saturday Night Live alumna Julia Sweeney, biologist Richard Dawkins, and popular astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Founded by Michael Shermer, founder of the Skeptics Society, the magazine was first published in the spring of 1992 and is published through Millennium Press.

Skeptics insisted that when the interior scaffolding was removed, the whole roof would collapse.

Skeptics of premonition use these terms in response to claims made by psychics, astrologers and other paranormalists to have predicted an event, when the original prediction was vague, catch-all, or otherwise non-obvious.

Dutton was one of the founding members and first chair of the New Zealand Skeptics.

He was opposed by Skeptics Society founder Michael Shermer.

Dietz was an outspoken critic of creationism, and was the faculty advisor of two student groups at Arizona State University in 1985, Americans Promoting Evolution Science ( APES ) and the Phoenix Skeptics.

Skeptics dismissed the photos as frauds ; seeing that the bird is in roughly the same position in both photos, they suggested they may have been of a mounted specimen.

* Channeling-at the Skeptics ' Dictionary ;

* Medium-at the Skeptics ' Dictionary ;

The new philosophies of the Hellenistic world were those of the Cynics, Skeptics, and increasingly the Stoics ; it's these philosophers who bring us into the world of Hellenistic philosophy.

; Skeptics

The Skeptics were to have a larger impact on Western reasoning than the Cynics ; but this would not occur until after its having been reified during the middle years of the Roman Empire when it passed into the mainstream of Western thought.