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typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Skeptical_Inquirer.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Skeptical_Inquirer.jpg/300px-Skeptical_Inquirer.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="74" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Skeptical_Inquirer.jpg/450px-Skeptical_Inquirer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Skeptical_Inquirer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="476" data-file-height="118" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editor-in-chief</th><td class="infobox-data">Stephen Hupp</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Frequency</th><td class="infobox-data">Bimonthly</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Committee_for_Skeptical_Inquiry" title="Committee for Skeptical Inquiry">Committee for Skeptical Inquiry</a> <p><a href="/wiki/Center_for_Inquiry" title="Center for Inquiry">Center for Inquiry</a> </p> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1976<span class="noprint">; 48 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1976</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Based in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Amherst,_New_York" title="Amherst, New York">Amherst, New York</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://skepticalinquirer.org/">skepticalinquirer<wbr />.org</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0194-6730">0194-6730</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Skeptical Inquirer</b></i> is a bimonthly American general-audience <a href="/wiki/Magazine" title="Magazine">magazine</a> published by the <a href="/wiki/Committee_for_Skeptical_Inquiry" title="Committee for Skeptical Inquiry">Committee for Skeptical Inquiry</a> (CSI) with the subtitle: <i>The Magazine for Science and Reason</i>. </p><p>Originally called <i>The Zetetic</i>, the magazine initially focused on investigating claims of the <a href="/wiki/Paranormal" title="Paranormal">paranormal</a>. As the organization and magazine evolved, it expanded to address other <a href="/wiki/Pseudoscientific" class="mw-redirect" title="Pseudoscientific">pseudoscientific</a> topics that are antithetical to <a href="/wiki/Critical_thinking" title="Critical thinking">critical thinking</a> and <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>. </p><p>Notable skeptics have credited the magazine in influencing their development of <a href="/wiki/Scientific_skepticism" title="Scientific skepticism">scientific skepticism</a>. In the "Letters to the Editor", the most frequent letters of appreciation come from <a href="/wiki/Educators" class="mw-redirect" title="Educators">educators</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mission_statement_and_goals">Mission statement and goals</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Skeptical_Inquirer&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Mission statement and goals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Writer and skeptic <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Loxton" title="Daniel Loxton">Daniel Loxton</a>, writing in 2013 about the mission and goals of the skeptical movement, criticized the idea that people wanted to read about the paranormal, <a href="/wiki/Uri_Geller" title="Uri Geller">Uri Geller</a> and <a href="/wiki/Crystal_skulls" class="mw-redirect" title="Crystal skulls">crystal skulls</a> not being relevant any longer. <a href="/wiki/Paul_Kurtz" title="Paul Kurtz">Paul Kurtz</a> in 2009 seemed to share this sentiment and stated that the organization would still research some paranormal subjects as they have expertise in this area, but they would begin to investigate other areas. S.I. "has reached an historic juncture: the recognition that there is a critical need to change our direction." While editor <a href="/wiki/Kendrick_Frazier" title="Kendrick Frazier">Kendrick Frazier</a> did expand the scope of the magazine to include topics less paranormal and more that were an attack on science and critical thinking such as <a href="/wiki/Climate_change_denialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Climate change denialism">climate change denialism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theories" class="mw-redirect" title="Conspiracy theories">conspiracy theories</a> and the influence of the alt-med movement, Frazier also added that "paranormal beliefs are still widespread" and quoted surveys that state that the public, given a list of ten general paranormal topics, will select four as topics they believe in. While the general skeptic community believes that we should not waste more time debunking the paranormal, topics long ago discredited, Frazier says "millions of Americans accept them today."<sup id="cite_ref-WhereDoWeGo_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WhereDoWeGo-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Barry_Karr" title="Barry Karr">Barry Karr</a> is the executive director of CSI and <i>Skeptical Inquirer.</i> In June 2023, Stephen Hupp was named as the magazine's editor. Hupp replaced <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Vyse" title="Stuart Vyse">Stuart Vyse</a>, who was the interim editor in November 2022 following the passing of Kendrick Frazier.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Writing for <i><a href="/wiki/Scientific_American" title="Scientific American">Scientific American</a></i> in 1982<i>,</i> cognitive scientist <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter" title="Douglas Hofstadter">Douglas Hofstadter</a> said that the purpose of <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i> was to "combat nonsense" with articles in English that require no special knowledge or expertise, only "curiosity about truth".<sup id="cite_ref-Hofstadter_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hofstadter-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Skeptical_Inquirer&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The magazine was originally titled <i>The Zetetic</i> (from the Greek meaning "skeptical seeker" or "inquiring skeptic"), and was originally edited by <a href="/wiki/Marcello_Truzzi" title="Marcello Truzzi">Marcello Truzzi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Exuberant_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Exuberant-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> About a year after its inception a <a href="/wiki/Schism" title="Schism">schism</a> developed between the editor Truzzi and the rest of the <a href="/wiki/Committee_for_the_Scientific_Investigation_of_Claims_of_the_Paranormal" class="mw-redirect" title="Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal">Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal</a> (CSICOP). The side represented by CSICOP was more "firmly opposed to nonsense, more willing to go on the offensive and to attack supernatural claims"<sup id="cite_ref-HofstadterMetamagP95_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HofstadterMetamagP95-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the other side ("The relativist faction (one member)"<sup id="cite_ref-HofstadterMetamagP95_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HofstadterMetamagP95-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, i.e. Truzzi) wanted science and pseudoscience to exist "happily together". Truzzi left to start <i>The Zetetic Scholar</i> and CSICOP changed the magazine's name to <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Hofstadter_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hofstadter-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Loxton speculates on the answer to the question that if <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i> was not the first skeptical publication, why is it considered to be the <span style="padding-right:.15em;">"</span>'birth of modern skepticism' (at least for the English-speaking world)"? He writes that it was because CSICOP organized "this scholarship collectively [and] comprised a distinct field of study." The organization was the first to establish "best practices... specialist experts... buildings... periodicals and professional writers and researchers."<sup id="cite_ref-LoxtonMandate_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LoxtonMandate-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The January/February 2023 issue featured an article by Craig Foster that examined <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i> Vol. 1, no. 1 comparing it to the current publication, and found that "1976 principles of skepticism" still resonate forty-six years later "The Truzzi and Kurtz editorials are so consistent with contemporary skepticism, I think <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i> could reprint them today, without dates, and readers wouldn’t find them peculiar." Furthermore "The only out-of-place sentiment seems to be imagining the journal as an exchange between skeptics and paranormal promotors"<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Influence">Influence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Skeptical_Inquirer&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Influence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several notable skeptics have described the magazine as influential to the early stages of their development as scientific skeptics. In 1995, <a href="/wiki/Perry_DeAngelis" title="Perry DeAngelis">Perry DeAngelis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steven_Novella" title="Steven Novella">Steven Novella</a> were friends that played <i><a href="/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons" title="Dungeons & Dragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a></i> together until DeAngelis noticed a <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i> magazine on the table in Novella's condo. DeAngelis, also an avid reader of the magazine, pointed out the back page to Novella and said "What is missing?" DeAngelis stated that what was missing was a Connecticut skeptic group, he said "we should do this" to which Novella agreed. They started the <a href="/wiki/New_England_Skeptical_Society" title="New England Skeptical Society">New England Skeptical Society</a> and eventually the <a href="/wiki/Skeptic%27s_Guide_to_the_Universe" class="mw-redirect" title="Skeptic's Guide to the Universe">Skeptic's Guide to the Universe</a> (SGU) podcast.<sup id="cite_ref-RememberingPerry_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RememberingPerry-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Writing for <i><a href="/wiki/Scientific_American" title="Scientific American">Scientific American</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter" title="Douglas Hofstadter">Douglas Hofstadter</a> asked the question, why would <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i> succeed when the only people who read it are people who do not believe in the paranormal? The answer, he says, lies in the back of the magazine in the "Letters to the Editor" section. "Many people write in to say how vital the magazine has been to them, their friends and their students. High school teachers are among the most frequent writers of thank-you notes to the magazine's editors, but I have also seen enthusiastic letters from members of the clergy, radio talk-show hosts and people in many other professions."<sup id="cite_ref-Hofstadter_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hofstadter-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Daniel Loxton, in his essay "Ode to Joy" about discovering <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i> magazine as a freshman at his University writes... <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>But the true treasure, the lamp at the end of the cave, the thing that helped set the course of my life, was hidden away in the periodical collection: a complete set of the <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i>, going back to its launch in 1976. I couldn't believe such a wealth of skeptical research existed! I worked my way through the stack systematically, hungrily....<sup id="cite_ref-Joy_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joy-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Levy_and_Olynyk_art_project">Levy and Olynyk art project</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Skeptical_Inquirer&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Levy and Olynyk art project"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Inspired by the four decades of <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i> magazine, an exhibition titled <i>Some Provocations from Skeptical Inquirers</i> by artists <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Levy" title="Ellen Levy">Ellen Levy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Olynyk" title="Patricia Olynyk">Patricia Olynyk</a>, was held at the <a href="/wiki/Baruch_College" title="Baruch College">Baruch College</a> Mishkin Gallery in February 2016. Reviewer Eileen G'Sell wrote that the artists "plumb the depths of the murky ontological sea that is empirical belief."<sup id="cite_ref-Sumptuous_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sumptuous-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Writing for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Brooklyn_Rail" title="The Brooklyn Rail">The Brooklyn Rail</a></i>, reviewer William Corwin stated that the artwork represented "this built-in confrontation between fact and fiction (which) was the basis of the Skeptical Inquirer itself and its playful willingness to consider the most unlikely phenomena."<sup id="cite_ref-VisualArts_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VisualArts-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Photo_gallery">Photo gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Promoters of<br />pseudoscience</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sucharit_Bhakdi" title="Sucharit Bhakdi">Sucharit Bhakdi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Del_Bigtree" title="Del Bigtree">Del Bigtree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Igor_and_Grichka_Bogdanoff" title="Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff">Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brigitte_Boisselier" title="Brigitte Boisselier">Brigitte Boisselier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhonda_Byrne" title="Rhonda Byrne">Rhonda Byrne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Charroux" title="Robert Charroux">Robert Charroux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deepak_Chopra" title="Deepak Chopra">Deepak Chopra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clonaid" title="Clonaid">Clonaid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vernon_Coleman" title="Vernon Coleman">Vernon Coleman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ignatius_L._Donnelly" title="Ignatius L. Donnelly">Ignatius L. Donnelly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaia,_Inc." title="Gaia, Inc.">Gaia, Inc.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Gerson" title="Max Gerson">Max Gerson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Gonzalez_(physician)" title="Nicholas Gonzalez (physician)">Nicholas Gonzalez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goop_(company)" title="Goop (company)">Goop (company)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Hancock" title="Graham Hancock">Graham Hancock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Icke" title="David Icke">David Icke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Donald_Kelley" title="William Donald Kelley">William Donald Kelley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr." title="Robert F. Kennedy Jr.">Robert F. 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