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Skeptic, colloquially known as Skeptic magazine, is a quarterly science education and science advocacy magazine published internationally by The Skeptics Society, a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting scientific skepticism and resisting the spread of pseudoscience, superstition, and irrational beliefs. Founded by Michael Shermer, founder of the Skeptics Society, the magazine was first published in the spring of 1992 and is published through Millennium Press. Shermer remains the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the magazine and the magazine’s Co-publisher and Art Director is Pat Linse. Other noteworthy members of its editorial board include Oxford University evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist Jared Diamond, magician and escape artist turned educator James “The Amazing” Randi, actor, comedian, and Saturday Night Live alumna Julia Sweeney, professional mentalist Mark Edward, science writer Daniel Loxton, Lawrence M. Krauss and Christof Koch. Skeptic has an international circulation with over 50,000 subscriptions and is on newsstands in the U.S. and Canada as well as Europe, Australia, and other countries. Source

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The Seven Mountains Mandate: The Latest in Christian Nationalism

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On June 14, 2025, Vance Boelter assassinated Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman, along with her husband Mark, in their home. Boelter also shot and wounded Minnesota state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, and attempted to shoot their daughter Hope.
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The Science of the Declaration of Independence

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On America’s 250th Anniversary, a New Look at its Founding Document It is altogether proper for so many commentators on this 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding to treat the Declaration of Independence as a work of political philosophy unprecedented in history—drafted, edited, and approved as it was by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, James Madison, and the other Founding Fathers, who were the intellectual heirs of the Enlightenment.
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Sciencing With a Primate Brain: Reflections on the Nature of Scientific Thought

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I was once a flat-earther. But probably you were too, so … Please. Allow me to elaborate. Let us begin with the assumption that there is such a thing as objective truth. “Objective knowledge” means knowledge that is increasingly constrained by reality rather than by our preferences, intuitions, or inherited myths; put more simply, knowledge of a thing as it is, in-and-of itself, independent of us.
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How Hype Becomes Automated Consensus

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A Conversation With AI on the False Origin Story of EMDR Controversies surrounding Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) make for an interesting chapter in the history of clinical psychology. For those unfamiliar with the acronym, EMDR refers to a well-known and widely used treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)—one that is claimed to be empirically supported.
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The Terrorist in the Brain

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What Robin Williams and Bruce Willis can teach us about dementia—and about the industry that has grown up around our fear of it In the last two years of his life, Robin Williams was being hunted by a stealthy predator. The early signs were easy to ignore: stubborn constipation, trouble sleeping, a sense of smell that had quietly faded, and the usual “senior moments.” Then symptoms came that were harder to dismiss. A tremor appeared in his left hand. His walk grew stiff and stooped.
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God Isn’t Dead: The World Is Becoming More Religious

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On April 7, 1966, Time magazine generated headlines by asking “Is God Dead?” Four decades later, the “Four Horsemen of Atheism,”  Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett famously heralded religion’s unraveling. A mere eight years after their declaration, Pew Research Center reported that the percentage of those identifying as agnostic/atheist was projected to increase substantially in the United States and Europe.
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The Case for Criticizing Islam Without Hating Muslims

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Why liberal societies must protect people, not ideas, from criticism Every tradition begins somewhere. Every religion, moral code, legal system, and political identity emerges from a particular language, place, history, memory, fear, victory, defeat, and symbolic world. There is nothing wrong with that. Human beings do not begin from nowhere. We begin from families, cultures, stories, rituals, and inherited explanations. A local rule may once have helped a community solve a problem.
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Was Lamarck Right About Evolution?

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In Jessica Riskin’s beautifully written new book, The Power of Life, with the deliberately imitative eighteenth-century style subtitle, The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, she makes a powerful heretical case, set in italics, that Lamarck was Right. To do justice to that sentence, which is indeed heretical, you need to read the entire book.
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Roman Polanski: Hell is empty. All the devils are here.

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“Hell is empty; all the devils are here!” —Ferdinand in Shakespeare’s The Tempest I was six years and thirteen days old when the War broke out, and twelve when it ended. The greatest suffering I experienced at that time wasn’t due to material conditions—misery or hunger—or even to fear. It was caused by my parents’ absence and my heartrending longing to see them again, my isolated existence in a world turned strange and cold. I have already spoken on several occasions about those times.
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Michael Shermer Named to White House UAP Science Advisory Council

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Santa Barbara, California, June 15, 2026—Skeptic magazine and The Skeptics Society are pleased to announce that publisher and founder Dr. Michael Shermer has been appointed to the newly formed UAP Science Advisory Council, formed at the request of the White House and in coordination with the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and other agencies.
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