These are the skeptics. And they are aswarm on the Internet. Take a look at the home page of the Skeptics Society , a California-based group of doubting scientists, historians, magicians and scholars. We're talking some serious ghostbusting here. Singing the rational anthem, these folks hope to take the super out of the supernatural.
Nothing is taken for granted.
Even President Clinton's escapades are held up to the light of pure reason. The director of the society, Michael Shermer, who also edits Skeptic Magazine, writes this month about the causes and effects of gossip . Because our Paleolithic brains are being tricked into thinking that President Clinton is someone we personally know and someone we should care about. . . Because, Shermer concludes, today it takes a global village to raise a leader. Or you can check out an article on how the rise of scientific endeavor in 17th-century England led to an increase in the belief in the supernatural.