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==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="csi-hupp">{{cite web |title=Skeptical Inquirer Magazine Introduces New Editor Stephen Hupp |url=https://centerforinquiry.org/press_releases/skeptical-inquirer-magazine-introduces-new-editor-stephen-hupp/ |website=Centerforinquiry.org | date=June 12, 2023 |publisher=The Center for Inquiry |access-date=13 June 2023}}</ref> <ref name="Exuberant">{{cite book|author=Paul Kurtz|author-link=Paul Kurtz|title=Exuberant Skepticism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HFsEut6lA94C&pg=PA218|access-date=14 December 2015|year=2010|publisher=Prometheus Books|isbn=978-1615929702|page=218}}</ref> <ref name="foster">{{cite web |last1=Foster |first1=Craig |title=On the Origin of Skeptical Inquirer |url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/12/on-the-origin-of-skeptical-inquirer/ |website=Skeptical Inquirer |date=December 29, 2022 |access-date=10 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124143616/https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/12/on-the-origin-of-skeptical-inquirer/ |archive-date=24 January 2023}}</ref> <ref name="Hofstadter">{{cite journal|last1=Hofstadter|first1=Douglas|author-link=Douglas Hofstadter|date=February 1, 1982|title=About two kinds of Inquiry: 'National Enquirer' and 'The Skeptical Inquirer'|url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/metamagical-themas-1982-02/|url-status=live|journal=[[Scientific American]]|volume=246|issue=2|pages=18β26|doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0282-18|url-access=subscription|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125122455/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/metamagical-themas-1982-02/|archive-date=2020-01-25|access-date=31 March 2016}}</ref> <ref name="HofstadterMetamagP95">{{cite book|author=Douglas Hofstadter|author-link=Douglas Hofstadter|title=Metamagical Themas|year=1985 |url=https://archive.org/details/MetamagicalThemas/page/n101/mode/2up|access-date=2020-04-14|publisher=Penguin|page=95}}</ref> <!-- <ref name="IanHarris">{{cite journal|last1=Harris|first1=Ian|date=2018|title=The Take a Wish Foundation|url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/2018/05/take-a-wish-foundation/|url-status=live|journal=Skeptical Inquirer|volume=42|issue=3|page=66|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200210113901/https://skepticalinquirer.org/2018/05/take-a-wish-foundation/|archive-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> --> <ref name="ibj">{{Cite web |title='Skeptical Inquirer' announces SIUE's Stephen Hupp as editor |url=https://www.ibjonline.com/2023/07/31/skeptical-inquirer-announces-siues-stephen-hupp-as-editor/ |work=Illinois Business Journal |date=July 31, 2023 |access-date=December 16, 2024}}</ref> <ref name="nye">{{Cite book |title=Everything All at Once : How to unleash your inner nerd, tap into radical curiosity and solve any problem |first=Bill |last=Nye |author-link=Bill Nye |publisher=Rhodale |year=2017 |isbn=9781623367916 |page=211 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uxouDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA211 |quote=A vaccine against deception ... As a counterforce to all the predatory deceivers, several skeptical organizations fight the good fight for science. The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ... and the Skeptics Society are two of the leading lights. They seek out specific claims, evaluate them, and publicize their versions of the process ... Both CSI and the Skeptics Society put out magazines that promote the aggressive form of critical thinking needed to immunize us to fakery. |access-date=December 16, 2024}}</ref> <ref name=Joy>{{cite web|url=http://www.skepticblog.org/2010/04/27/ode-to-joy/|title=Ode to Joy|last1=Loxton|first1=Daniel|author-link=Daniel Loxton|date=April 27, 2010 |website=[[Skepticblog]] |publisher=The Skeptic Society |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410072044/http://www.skepticblog.org/2010/04/27/ode-to-joy/|archive-date=2016-04-10}}</ref> <ref name="LoxtonMandate">{{cite web|url=http://www.skepticblog.org/2013/05/13/modern-skepticisms-unique-mandate/|title=Modern skepticism's unique mandate|last1=Loxton|first1=Daniel|author-link=Daniel Loxton|date=May 13, 2013 |website=[[Skepticblog]] |publisher=The Skeptic Society |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112034923/https://www.skepticblog.org/2013/05/13/modern-skepticisms-unique-mandate/|archive-date=2020-01-12|access-date=30 March 2016}}</ref> <!-- <ref name=Reality>{{cite journal|last=Hall|first=Harriet|author-link=Harriet Hall|date=September 2018|title=The Care and Feeding of the Vagina|url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/2018/09/the_care_and_feeding_of_the_vagina/|url-status=live|journal=Skeptical Inquirer|volume=42|issue=5|page=28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125115858/https://skepticalinquirer.org/2018/09/the_care_and_feeding_of_the_vagina/|archive-date=2020-01-25}}</ref> --> <ref name=RememberingPerry>{{cite web|url=http://theness.com/roguesgallery/index.php/skepticism/remembering-perry-deangelis-today/|title=Remembering Perry DeAngelis Today|last=Bernstein|first=Evan|date=August 19, 2013|work=The Rogues Gallery|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140105172605/http://theness.com:80/roguesgallery/index.php/skepticism/remembering-perry-deangelis-today/|archive-date=2014-01-05}}</ref> <ref name="rensberger">{{Cite web |title=Skeptics are Scored on Paranormal Issue |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/06/25/archives/skeptics-are-scored-on-para-normal-issue-scholar-tells-scientists.html |work=The New York Times |date=June 25, 1978 |first=Boyce |last=Rensberger |access-date=December 16, 2024}}</ref> <!-- <ref name="SI Web">{{cite web | title=Online Exclusives | website=Skeptical Inquirer | date=2019-01-07 | url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/ | access-date=2020-06-17}}</ref> --> <ref name="stein">{{Cite book |chapter=Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) |title=The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal |first=Kendrick |last=Frazier |author-link=Kendrick Frazier |editor-first=Gordon |editor-last=Stein |editor-link=Gordon Stein |publisher=Prometheus Books |year=1996 |isbn=1573920215 |ol=806063M |pages=168β181 |ref={{harvid|Stein 1996}}}}</ref> <ref name=Sumptuous>{{cite web|url=http://artefuse.com/2016/03/18/sumptuous-skeptics-ellen-k-levy-and-patricia-olynyk-stage-creative-inquisition-124450/|title=Sumptuous Skeptics: Ellen K. Levy and Patricia Olynyk Stage Creative Inquisition|last1=G'Sell|first1=Eileen|date=2016-03-19|website=Arte Fuse|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703012802/http://artefuse.com/2016/03/18/sumptuous-skeptics-ellen-k-levy-and-patricia-olynyk-stage-creative-inquisition-124450/|archive-date=2019-07-03|access-date=25 March 2016}}</ref> <ref name="tyson">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-b36y9fwuQ&t=192s |title=Miracle Drugs & Quick Fixes with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Nick Tiller |via=YouTube |date=September 15, 2023 |minutes=3:13 |first=Neil deGrasse |last=Tyson |author-link=Neil deGrasse Tyson |quote=...Skeptical Inquirer magazine, my single favorite magazine in the world β let the record show. Yes, every [inaudible] I wait for it to show up. How are people misthinking things today? And there it is, and they show it. |access-date=December 16, 2024}}</ref> <ref name=VisualArts>{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2016/04/artseen/truth-in-the-visual-arts|title=Truth in the Visual Arts Skepticism in the Work of Ellen K. Levy and Patricia Olynyk|last1=Corwin|first1=William|date=April 2016|website=The Brooklyn Rail|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615211002/http://brooklynrail.org/2016/04/artseen/truth-in-the-visual-arts|archive-date=2017-06-15}}</ref> <ref name=WhereDoWeGo>{{cite web|url=http://www.skeptic.com/downloads/WhereDoWeGoFromHere.pdf|title=Where do we go from here?|last1=Loxton|first1=Daniel|author-link=Daniel Loxton|date=2007 |website=[[The Skeptics Society]] |publisher=The Skeptic Society|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112034853/https://www.skeptic.com/downloads/WhereDoWeGoFromHere.pdf|archive-date=2020-01-12|access-date=30 March 2016}}</ref> <ref name="zorn">{{Cite web |title=Column: In memory of the amazing James Randi, ignore the charlatans and listen to science |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2020/10/22/column-in-memory-of-the-amazing-james-randi-ignore-the-charlatans-and-listen-to-science/ |work=Chicago Tribune |first=Eric |last=Zorn |author-link=Eric Zorn |date=October 23, 2020 |access-date=December 16, 2024 |quote=In 1976, Randi was one of several founding members of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), an academically minded organization aimed at combating "a rising tide of uncritical belief in astrology, parapsychology and other unfounded subjects,β as contemporary news reports put it. CSICOP's magazine, The Skeptical Inquirer, remains a favorite of those of us who can, in fact, handle the truth.}}</ref> }}
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