Skeptical Inquirer

Eye-opening, stimulating, often very funny and informative, and refreshing as an ice-cube down the neck on a hot day after the muggy illogicality of the mainstream media, but I'm still a little sceptical about The Skeptical Enquirer. I want to like it, because I oppose a lot of the things it opposes, but there's a disturbing whiff of inquisitorialism in the way the organization behind the magazine, CSICOP, or the Committee for Skeptical Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, goes about things. Because its members sometimes seem to want not just to defeat their opponents but to stop them being allowed to speak as well. I agree that astrology is mostly ...

So, what's behind astrology and UFOs and other paranormal topics? While most publications take a rather uncritical approach, the Skeptical Inquirer provides a skeptical view. The Skeptical Inquirer is published by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), and they pride themselves of having a number of Nobel Prize winners and other scientific celebrities among their advisors. It is in general a good magazine. Some of the articles are investigative, in which individual topics or e.g. UFO or ghost cases are evaluated from a critical scientific background - usually with negative result. Other articles (and those are ...