Skeptic (U.S. magazine)
Premiere issue of Skeptic,
featuring a tribute to Isaac Asimov. |
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| Editor-in-Chief | Michael Shermer |
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| Categories | Skeptical magazine |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Circulation | 50,000 subscribers |
| Publisher | The Skeptics Society |
| First issue | Spring 1992 |
| Company | Millennium Press |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Altadena, California |
| Language | English |
| Website | www.Skeptic.com |
| ISSN | 1063-9330 |
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.
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