Few areas of science have been subject to such continued major change and controversy. Thus, the skepticism of The Skeptical Inquirer appears selective. The Skeptical Inquirer seems to disavow the skepticism most have that naturalism is the only reality. Most individuals object to being reduced to mere machines without design, purpose or destiny as naturalism proposes. This may be in part why millions more people read the National Enquirer than The Skeptical Inquirer which has a circulation of only a few thousand.
Skepticism is a concept that can be used to destroy itself.
It is vulnerable to its own tenets. Carried to the extreme, skepticism leads to doubt about everything, including itself. This is both useless and philosophically unsatisfying. The goal of intellectual inquiry is truth, not skepticism, and there is a definite conflict between these two. Skepticism, when pursued to the extreme, tends away from truth, while inquiry tends to lead toward truth.