The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
The mission of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry is to promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims.
Now Online: Skeptical Inquirer Volume 37.1
January/February 2013
Selected articles by:
Latest Articles
The Great East Coast UFO of August 1986
by James Oberg
Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 10.4
An Illuminating UFO case raises several interesting points.
Night Walkers and Mystery Mongers: Sense and Nonsense at the Edge of Science
by Carl Sagan
Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 10.3
In Greece of the second century A.D., during the reign of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, there lived a master con man...
The Nazca Drawings Revisited: Creation of a Full-Sized Duplicate
by Joe Nickell
Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 7.3
Re-creation of a 440-foot Nazca figure on a Kentucky field shows how the Peruvian drawings were most likely made.
Space Travel in Bronze Age China?
by David N. Keightley
Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 3.1
Ancient monuments, cave drawings, texts, and legends have been cited by many "UFOlogists" to show that visitors from...
Critical Reading, Careful Writing, and the Bermuda Triangle
by Larry Kusche
Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 1.2
In August 1977, the College Entrance Examination Board issued a report concerning the causes of the continuing decline of the...
Von Däniken’s Chariots: A Primer in the Art of Cooked Science
by John T. Omohundro
Skeptical Inquirer · Article · Volume 1.1
Throughout history, cultures subjected to stressful situations have responded with cataclysmic religious reformations.
