Skeptical Inquirer
Skeptical Inquirer is the official journal of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Six times per year Skeptical Inquirer publishes critical scientific evaluations of paranormal and fringe-science claims and informed discussion of all relevant issues. In addition to news, articles, book reviews, and investigations on a wide variety of topics, Skeptical Inquirer has a stellar stable of regular columnists including Joe Nickell (“Investigative Files”), Massimo Polidoro (“Notes on a Strange World”), Massimo Pigluicci (“Thinking About Science”), Robert Sheaffer (“Psychic Vibrations”), and SI managing editor Benjamin Radford's reader-driven (“The Skeptical Inquiree”). Former Scientific American columnist and polymath Martin Gardner also contributes an occasional column titled “Notes of a Fringe-Watcher.”
The Paradoxical Future of Skepticism
by Daniel Loxton
Volume 33.6, November / December 2009
Feature
Like many skeptics, I'm preoccupied by one question: "How do we take this thing to the next level?" I have an answer to propose.
Bill Maher: Crank and Comic
by Martin Gardner
Volume 33.6, November / December 2009
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
Well-known stand-up comic Bill Maher has joined the ranks of the Big-D atheists, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett...
The Real Secrets of Fatima
by Joe Nickell
Volume 33.6, November / December 2009
Investigative Files
Among the intriguing mysteries of modern Catholocism are the "miracles" and "secrets" supposedly imparted by the Virgin Mary...
Alternate Cover
by csicop.org
Volume 33.6, November / December 2009
Online Extra
Alternate Cover for Issue 33.6, November / December 2009
Ask the Outlaw Skeptic
by csicop.org
Volume 33.6, November / December 2009
Online Extra
What is a "skeptoid" anyway?
Editor’s Note
by Ben Radford
Volume 33.6, November / December 2009
Online Extra
There are, of course, dozens more skeptics out there whose names may be slightly less familiar but whose contributions...
Messages to ‘Ask an Astrobiologist,’ May 2009
by David Morrison
Volume 33.6, November / December 2009
Featurette
Sidebar to Morrison's update on the Niburu 2012 doomsday
Update on the Nibiru 2012 ‘Doomsday’
by David Morrison
Volume 33.6, November / December 2009
Follow-up
Special preview from the November / December 2009 Skeptical Inquirer
Skeptical Programs for Generation Y and Beyond
by Barry Karr
Volume 33.6, November / December 2009
Special Report
CSI has many long-standing programs to encourage critical thinking in children and young people--the world's future skeptics.
Skeptical Books for Children and Young Adults
by Timothy Binga
Volume 33.6, November / December 2009
Feature
I was asked to write a bibliography of youth-oriented skeptical books not only because I am the director of libraries at CFI...