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.

* " A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper " by Martin Gardner

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

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 ).

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.

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.

* The Sudarium of Oviedo at Skeptical Spectacle

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:

It carries out investigations aimed at understanding paranormal reports in terms of scientific understanding, and publishes its results in its journal, the Skeptical Inquirer.

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 ).

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 ).

Bem's response to Alcock's critique appeared online at the Skeptical Inquirer website and Alcock replied to these comments in a third article at the same website.

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.

Skeptical at first, John agrees.

In his personal life, Davis is an avid water-skier, works with the Canadian Cancer Society and lectures on skepticism most recently at Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's CSICON.

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.

He presented a paper at a conference on Paranormal and Superstitious Beliefs: A Skeptical Examination at Manchester Metropolitan University on Friday 13 November 1998.

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 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:

Skeptical males said she would be lucky to get three applicants ; actually she had 151 the first year ( 1918 ), and had to turn many away ever since.

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.

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.

Skeptical theism has also been characterized by some as a fallacious appeal to ignorance.

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.

The EAI was seen by some as a vehicle created for Lomborg, whose book The Skeptical Environmentalist argues that many perceived environmental problems are vastly exaggerated by environmental lobby and that policy responses based on such exaggerated claims are often misguided.

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.

Skeptical of superstition, he is somewhat ahead of his time, and much accurate historical detail is woven into the adventures.

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.

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.

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

" 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.

There are concerns that the devices are misused, such as the noting of Benjamin Radford's article for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry: " you may own the world's most sophisticated thermometer, but if you are using it as a barometer, your measurements are worthless.

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.

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

Following a no-confidence vote against Truzzi, he resigned, and the magazine was ( starting with volume 2, issue 2 ) retitled Skeptical Inquirer and Kendrick Frazier ( former editor of Science News ) became the new editor.

He was a co-founder of the Committee on Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ) and contributed articles to their journal, The Skeptical Inquirer.

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 council was founded by Dr. Paul Kurtz, who also founded CSICOP ( now known as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ) and the Center for Inquiry.

" 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.

The Skeptical Inquirer revealed that Shaw was a fake psychic in their fall 1980 issue.

In February 2011 he was elected as a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

One column, " Skeptical Eye ," attempted to uncover various scams and flim-flam in the popular science world, and was the medium for James Randi to release his Project Alpha results.

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.

In February 2011 Grossman was elected as a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

The Skeptical Analysis of the Paranormal Society ( SAPS ) was founded with the intent to recreate and debunk segments of the show.

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

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.

Kendrick Frazier became the editor of CSICOP's journal and the name was changed to Skeptical Inquirer.

In January 2010 Carroll was elected as a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry