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( 1999 ), " Anthropic design ," The Skeptical Inquirer 23 ( August 31, 1999 ): 40-43
* Skeptical About The Skeptical Environmentalist, Richard M. Fisher's review of The Skeptical Environmentalist, in " The Skeptical Inquirer ".
", by Martin Gardner, in Skeptical Inquirer, Jan – Feb 1999.
According to a report in the Skeptical Inquirer in 1997 no credible theory of psi has yet been presented.
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
* 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 Inquirer
* " Outstanding skeptics of the 20th century " – Skeptical Inquirer magazine
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.
* Skeptical Inquirer
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?
by James D. Livingston — Skeptical Inquirer
*" The Secrets of Oak Island ", Joe Nickell, Skeptical Inquirer, March / April 2000.
* Joseph A. Bauer, A Surgeon's View: Alien Autopsy's Overwhelming Lack of Credibility, Skeptical Inquirer, vol 20, # 1, Jan. 1996, 23 – 24.
Also reprinted in Bizarre Cases: From the Files of Skeptical Inquirer, CSICOP, 2000.
* C. Eugene Emery, Jr, ' Alien Autopsy ' Show and Tell: Long on Tell, Short on Show, Skeptical Inquirer, vol 19, # 6, Nov. 1995, 15 – 16 & 55.
* Joe Nickell, ' Alien Autopsy ' Hoax, Skeptical Inquirer, vol 19, # 6, Nov. 1995, 17 – 19.
* Trey Stokes, How to Make an ' Alien ' for ' Autopsy ', Skeptical Inquirer, vol 20, # 1, Jan. 1996, 19 – 23.
Also reprinted in Bizarre Cases: From the Files of Skeptical Inquirer, CSICOP, 2000.
" Synchronicity and the Archetypes ," Skeptical Inquirer, 18 ( 4 ).

Skeptical and is
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.
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 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 and American
In its January 2002 issue, Scientific American published a series of criticisms of the Bjorn Lomborg book The Skeptical Environmentalist.
With Stephen Schneider and two other authors, writing in the January 2002 issue of Scientific American, he critiqued Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist.
He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
He also joined an American sceptical society ; CSICOP ( now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ) and investigated / debunked several such claims.
Among them are CSER's Quarterly Review, CSH's Free Inquiry, and CSICOP's Skeptical Inquirer, American Rationalist, as well as the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice, The Skeptic in the UK and Philo.
Heather Mac Donald, who calls the Secular Right " Skeptical Conservatives ", describes the group in an article of The American Conservative.

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