Media Enquiries

0844 589 7402*
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Other contact details
Staff and contributors
*Please check rates

Social links



Bookmark and Share

Best of The Skeptic

Forthcoming Issue

Volume 23, Issue 4
This issue is currently in preparation. We expect to publish in June 2012.

Submit content / news

For the printed magazine:
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
For the website or news columns:
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Read the submission guidelines.

Subscribe

You can order individual issues or subscribe via our shop. Details about payment methods and a postal order form are also available.

Website redesign

The Skeptic's website is undergoing a redesign and the main site is presently in soft-launch. Bugs can be reported to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Sceptical aphorisms

There are real mysteries to ponder. In science, the best breakthroughs come from studying those bits that don't quite make sense in the conventional picture. (Al Seckel)

Volume 22 Issue 4 & Volume 23 Issue 1: Double Issue

The Skeptic Vol 22.4-23.1

Buy Now

Features:

Simon Singh & Edzard Ernst on The First Quackbusters
Edzard Ernst on The New College of Medicine
Andy Wilson on How to Take an Overdose
Mahlon Wagner on Therapeutic Touch
Luke Mason on Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
Alan Henness
on The Nightingale Collaboration
Richard Wiseman
on the first experiment into eyewitness testimony
Jason Braithwaite
on Magnetic fields, hallucinations and anomalous experiences
Klaus Schmeh
on hidden messages in the bible
An anonymous author
on claims of recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse
George Wells
on Christianity and evolution
Chris French
interviews Richard Wiseman about magic, parapsychology and scepticism
Benjamin R
adford on spotting faulty reasoning
Nathalie N
ahai reviews TAM London 2010

Also:

Editorial; Chris French & Deborah Hyde
Hits and Misses; Mark Williams on abandoning rational thought: how trial by tape measure can lead to a death sentence, food tubes in Croydon, American ownership of the internet, psychics being unable to predict the lottery,
and militant secularism (featuring a contribution from Andrew Copson). Also featuring Lizzie Rogers on the BHA Census Campaign, Liam Proven's Questival review and Matthew Smith on becoming a million dollar psychic.
Skeptic at Large; Wendy Grossman on what
should sceptics do
Philosopher's Corner; Julian Baggini on Foreign Aid and the Morality of Giving
Reasonable Doubt; Chris French on publication bias
Through a Looking Glass Darkly; Mike Heap on Addressing the Needs of Professionals
Galileo's Doughnuts; Mark Duwe on Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Skeptical Stats; Mark Williams with the observation that sometimes statistics don’t lie - they’re just plain crazy
Focus On; exploring The Association for Skeptical Inquiry
Cover art from Neil Davies, Crispian Jago and Chris Fix

Humour

SpriteSprite, by Donald Rooum, the ongoing saga of an ethereal being who has the misfortune to fall for a confirmed skeptic.
Cartoons by Tim Pearce and Andrew Endersby
Pictures from Hilary Evans’ Paranormal Picture Gallery
Bible stories illustrated by Barbara Griffiths

Book Reviews

Richard Wiseman's Paranormality: Why we see what isn't there, reviewed by Deborah Hyde
Colin Wilson's Beyond Belief: Twenty year's research into the paranormal; reviewed by Mark Newbrook
Richard Wiseman's 59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lot; reviewed by Kylie Sturgess
Michael Jawer & Marc Micozzi's The Spiritual Anatomy of emotion: How feelings link the brain the body and the sixth sense; reviewed by
Ray Ward
Michael Brooks' 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The most intriguing scientific mysteries of our time; reviewed by Ray Ward
Ronald Fritze's Invented Knowledge: False history, fake science and pseudo-religions; reviewed by Mark Newbrook
Scott Lilenfeld, Stephen Jay Lynn, John Ruscio & Barry L Beyerstein's 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Sharrering widespread misconceptions about human behaviour; reviewed by James Munroe

Letters from our readers

George Wells on Pope Benedict and 'Newmania'
Steuard Campbell with More on the JFK Assassination
Ray Ward replies to Steuart Campbell
Barbara Gleve on being Irritated by Supersense