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Skeptical Inquirer, the Glossary

Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American general-audience magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) with the subtitle: The Magazine for Science and Reason.^[1]

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Amherst, New York

Amherst is a town in Erie County, New York, United States.

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Barry Karr

Barry Karr is an American skeptic and paranormal researcher, currently the executive director of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

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Baruch College

Baruch College (officially the Bernard M. Baruch College) is a public college in New York City.

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Center for Inquiry

The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is a U.S. nonprofit organization that works to mitigate belief in pseudoscience and the paranormal and to fight the influence of religion in government.

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Climate change denial

Climate change denial (also global warming denial) is a form of science denial characterized by rejecting, refusing to acknowledge, disputing, or fighting the scientific consensus on climate change.

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Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), formerly known as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), is a program within the U.S. non-profit organization Center for Inquiry (CFI), which seeks to "promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims." Paul Kurtz proposed the establishment of CSICOP in 1976 as an independent non-profit organization (before merging with CFI as one of its programs in 2015), to counter what he regarded as an uncritical acceptance of, and support for, paranormal claims by both the media and society in general. Skeptical Inquirer and Committee for Skeptical Inquiry are 1976 establishments in the United States.

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Conspiracy theory

A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy by powerful and sinister groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable.

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Critical thinking

Critical thinking is the analysis of available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments in order to form a judgement by the application of rational, skeptical, and unbiased analyses and evaluation.

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Crystal skull

Crystal skulls are human skull hardstone carvings made of clear or milky white quartz (also called "rock crystal"), claimed to be pre-Columbian Mesoamerican artifacts by their alleged finders; however, these claims have been refuted for all of the specimens made available for scientific studies.

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CSICon

CSICon or CSIConference is an annual skeptical conference typically held in the United States.

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Daniel Loxton

Daniel Loxton (born 1975) is a Canadian writer, illustrator, and skeptic.

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Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, artificial intelligence, and discovery in mathematics and physics.

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Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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Ellen Levy

Ellen K. Levy is an American multimedia artist and scholar known for exploring art, science and technology interrelationships since the early 1980s.

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Kendrick Frazier

Kendrick Crosby Frazier (March 19, 1942 – November 7, 2022) was an American science writer and longtime editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine.

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Magazine

A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content.

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Marcello Truzzi

Marcello Truzzi (September 6, 1935 – February 2, 2003) was an American sociologist and academic who was professor of sociology at New College of Florida and later at Eastern Michigan University, founding co-chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), a founder of the Society for Scientific Exploration, and director for the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research.

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New England Skeptical Society

The New England Skeptical Society (NESS) is an American organization dedicated to promoting science and reason.

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Paranormal

Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding.

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Patricia Olynyk

Patricia Olynyk is a Canadian-born American multimedia artist, scholar and educator whose work explores art, science, and technology-related themes.

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Perry DeAngelis

Perry J. DeAngelis (August 22, 1963 – August 19, 2007) was an American podcaster.

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Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.

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Schism

A schism (or, less commonly) is a division between people, usually belonging to an organization, movement, or religious denomination.

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Science

Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.

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Scientific American

Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine. Skeptical Inquirer and Scientific American are science and technology magazines published in the United States.

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Scientific skepticism

Scientific skepticism or rational skepticism (also spelled scepticism), sometimes referred to as skeptical inquiry, is a position in which one questions the veracity of claims lacking empirical evidence.

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Skeptic (American magazine)

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. Skeptical Inquirer and skeptic (American magazine) are quarterly magazines published in the United States, science and technology magazines published in the United States and scientific skepticism mass media.

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Snopes

Snopes, formerly known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a fact-checking website.

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Steven Novella

Steven Paul Novella (born July 29, 1964) is an American clinical neurologist and associate professor at Yale University School of Medicine.

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Stuart Vyse

Stuart Vyse is an American psychologist, teacher, speaker and author who specializes in belief in superstitions and critical thinking.

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Teacher

A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.

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The Brooklyn Rail

The Brooklyn Rail is a publication and platform for the arts, culture, humanities, and politics.

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The Skeptic (British magazine)

The Skeptic is a British non-profit skepticism magazine. Skeptical Inquirer and The Skeptic (British magazine) are paranormal magazines and scientific skepticism mass media.

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The Skeptic's Dictionary

The Skeptic's Dictionary is a collection of cross-referenced skeptical essays by Robert Todd Carroll, published on his website skepdic.com and in a printed book. Skeptical Inquirer and The Skeptic's Dictionary are scientific skepticism mass media.

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (SGU) is an American weekly skeptical podcast hosted by Steven Novella, MD, along with a panel of contributors. Skeptical Inquirer and the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe are scientific skepticism mass media.

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Uri Geller

Uri Geller (אורי גלר; born 20 December 1946) is an Israeli-British illusionist, magician, television personality, and self-proclaimed psychic.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeptical_Inquirer

Also known as Explorations (journal), Skept Inq, Skeptical Enquirer, Skeptical Inq, Skeptical Inq., Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, Skeptical Inquirer News, Skeptical Inquirer: The Magazine for Science & Reason, Skeptical Inquirer: The Magazine for Science and Reason, Skpetical Inquirer, Stephen Hupp, The Skeptical Inquirer, The Zetetic, The Zetetic: Skeptical Inquirer, Zetetic (journal).

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