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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.

6th World Skeptics Congress, May 18-20, 2012 in Berlin, Germany
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Now Online: Skeptical Inquirer Volume 36.1

Skeptical Inquirer Volume 36.1 Cover

  January/February 2012

Selected articles by:

  • Edzard Ernst
  • Jim Underdown
  • Joe Nickell
  • Massimo Polidoro
  • Steven Novella

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Latest Articles

Alternative Medicine, Impact Threats, Abrupt Climate Change, and Efficient Energy

by Matt Nisbet
Skeptical Inquirer · Special Report · Volume 22.6

A brief review of several of the sessions at the World Skeptics Congress

The Klass Files Volume 53

by Philip J. Klass
Special Articles · The Skeptics UFO Newsletter
September 1, 1998

Articles from Volume 53

Spoilsports?

by Lewis Jones
Skeptical Briefs · Inklings · Volume 8.3

Recently the BBC put out a series of television programs titled “The Human Body.”

Investigating Spirit Communications

Investigating Spirit Communications

by Joe Nickell
Skeptical Briefs · Investigative Files · Volume 8.3

Thanks to modern mass media, old-fashioned spiritualism is undergoing something of a revival.

How to Study Weird Things

by Frank Trocco
Skeptical Inquirer · Feature · Volume 22.5

Strategies for increasing students' aptitude and analytical reasoning without disenchanting them with science.

Uncritical Publicity for Supposed ‘Independent UFO Investigation’ Demonstrates Media Gullibility

by Robert Sheaffer
Skeptical Inquirer · News & Comment · Volume 22.5

In 1998, major media outlets were suddenly filled with accounts that an scientists had taken a fresh look at the UFO question.