Skeptical Inquirer

Still Skeptic After All These Years

Still Skeptic After All These Years

On my way back to New York I then got a tweet from a follower linking to yet another “I resign from the skeptic movement and hand in my skeptic card” article, written by a prominent (former) skeptic. It doesn’t matter who. The list of complaints by that author are familiar: a tendency toward scientism, a certain degree of sexism within the movement, and a public failure to lead by some of the de facto leaders. The same issues that I have been complaining about for years. But I have not quit, and do not intend to quit. Why?

My Journey Into Skepticism

My Journey Into Skepticism

Author and keen skeptic Harriet Hall, a retired family physician and former Air Force flight surgeon, recalls the influences that shaped her scientific viewpoint.