Skeptical Inquirer

The Skeptical Inquirer is an American science magazine.  The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) publishes this magazine every other month.  This magazine's subtitle is now The magazine for science and reason.  Articles in the magazine are about science and pseudoscience (fake or phony science).

"The mission of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry is to promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims." The Skeptical Inquirer is not a formal scientific journal.

Content
The Skeptical Inquirer criticizes topics, such as homeopathy, astrology, SETI, the creationism-evolution controversy, global warming, AIDS denial, and whether legendary persons such as King Arthur were real.  The magazine also includes general interest science articles.Kendrick Frazier. "It's What We Do" Skeptical Inquirer May/June 2009 Page 4.

The founder of CSICOP (the original name of CSI) Paul Kurtz listed four policies in 2006:
 to criticize claims of the paranormal and pseudoscience
 to replicate the methods of scientific inquiry and the nature of the scientific outlook
 to seek a balanced view of science in the mass media
 to teach critical thinking in the schools.

Collections
Several collections of articles from the Skeptical Inquirer, have been published.  Books of collections of articles are:
 Paranormal Borderlands of Science (1981). edited by Kendrick Frazier, Prometheus Books; .
 Science Confronts the Paranormal (1986). edited by Kendrick Frazier, Prometheus Books; .
 The Hundredth Monkey: And Other Paradigms of the Paranormal (1991). edited by Kendrick Frazier, Prometheus Books; 
 The Outer Edge: Classic Investigations of the Paranormal (1996). edited by Joe Nickell, Barry Karr, and Tom Genoni, CSICOP. OCLC 37626835
 The UFO Invasion: The Roswell Incident, Alien Abductions, and Government Coverups (1997). edited by Kendrick Frazier, Prometheus Books; 
 Encounters With the Paranormal: Science, Knowledge, and Belief (1998). edited by Kendrick Frazier, Prometheus Books; .
 Bizarre Cases: From the Files of The Skeptical Inquirer (2000). edited by Benjamin Radford, CSICOP. OCLC 45054771
 Paranormal Claims: A Critical Analysis, 2007, edited by Bryan Farha, University Press of America, .  Five of the eighteen chapters are reprints of Skeptical Inquirer articles.

References

Other websites
 Skeptical Inquirer homepage
 CSICOP official site 

Category:Skepticism
Category:Science and technology magazines
Category:Pseudoscience