page_title: Deborah Hyde
section_title: Managing editor of The Skeptic
hierarchical_section_title: Deborah Hyde / Career as a sceptic / Managing editor of The Skeptic
caption_attribution_description: English: Deborah Hyde presents James O'Malley and Liz Lutgendorff of The Pod Delusion with the Editors' Choice award at the Ockam Awards' Ceremony, held as part of QEDcon in the Mercure Hotel, Manchester, April 13 2013.
context_page_description: Deborah Hyde is a British sceptic, folklorist, cultural anthropologist, fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and editor-in-chief of The Skeptic. She writes and lectures extensively about superstition, cryptozoology, religion and belief in the paranormal, with special regard to the folklore, psychology and sociology behind these phenomena, and has been introduced as a "vampire expert". Hyde has also worked in the motion picture industry.
context_section_description: In 2011, Hyde was appointed managing editor of The Skeptic, a UK magazine promoting science and critical thinking, succeeding Lindsay Kallis and many sceptics who had been editors in the past, including Chris French and founder of the magazine Wendy M. Grossman. The first issue of the magazine under her control was Volume 23 Issue 2 in 2011.
  As editor-in-chief, Hyde has been working with an international advisory board of experts from many different fields, some of whom are globally recognised scientists, science educators and science enthusiasts, including Susan Blackmore, Stephen Fry, Derren Brown, Brian Cox, Richard Dawkins, Edzard Ernst, Robin Ince, PZ Myers, Phil Plait, Massimo Polidoro, Simon Singh, James Randi and Richard Wiseman.
caption: Deborah Hyde presenting James O'Malley and Liz Lutgendorff of The Pod Delusion with the Editors' Choice award at the 2013 Ockam Awards' Ceremony in Manchester, held as part of QEDcon 2013[35]
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