Skeptical Inquirer is the official journal of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. On a bimonthly basis, Skeptical Inquirer publishes critical scientific evaluations of paranormal and fringe-science claims and informed discussion of all relevant issues.
According to Editor Kendrick Frazier:
"Skeptical Inquirer is an unusual hybrid, part semi-popular magazine, part scientific journal. It's fair to say that we not only help to cross disciplinary barriers within scientific fields but bridge the gaps between the hard and soft sciences and between science and the general public."
Skeptical Inquirer has been called a "spokesman for rationality," serious but highly readable," "witty and informative," and a "steady buoy in the tumultuous sea of irrationality." Its contributors have included Isaac Asimov, Martin Gardner, Carl Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, and hundreds of other scholars and investigators worldwide.
In addition to in-depth feature articles, special reports, up to date news and comment, 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”).
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Skeptical Inquirer September October 2017.
The Spectrum of Skepticism
The concerns of scientific skeptics cover an astonishingly wide range of issues, with an equal variety of emphases and approaches. The articles in this issue typify that. Jeanne Goldberg’s cover arti...
Understanding Gallup’s Latest Poll on Evolution
When a pollster that’s been surveying public opinion about evolution at intervals over the past thirty-five years declares, “In US, Belief in Creationist View of Humans at New Low,” as Gallup did on ...
Psychic Roundup: ‘Psychics’ Convicted
The first few months of 2017 have not been good for those who claim to have psychic powers. Between April and August 2015, a Hong Kong taxi driver tricked one of his girlfriend’s daughters into havin...
Genetic Engineering through Music?
The Journal of Scientific Exploration (JSE) is one of the major academic journals in parapsychology and the study of other “alternative facts” (to borrow a phrase from one of President Trump’s key ad...
Australia’s Storied Ghosts
Joe Nickell, PhD, is now well into his fifth decade as an investigative writer. He has investigated numerous hauntings in his books that include The Science of Ghosts (2012). Whenever someone relates...