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Wendy M. Grossman

Wendy M. Grossman is founder and (twice) former editor of The Skeptic, and a freelance writer.

Skeptic at large: a new era

Former editor and founder of The Skeptic, Wendy Grossman, talks about the past, present and future of skepticism

Constructing Knowledge

I first learned to be a skeptic in high school. Pause. Modify. I think I was always naturally a skeptic - or, as my...

Alternative Facts

“WE HAVE BEEN FIGHTING ‘alternative facts’ for decades, haven’t we?” a fellow long-serving skeptic said recently. Indeed we have, even though it never occurred to...

From the archives: Fact checking the decibels at Wimbledon

From the archives in 2012, Wendy Grossman looks at the media claim that a tennis player's grunt at Wimbledon was almost as loud as a jet engine.

When The Skeptic came of age: a 2011 reflection on the first 21 years of the magazine

From the archives in 2011, Wendy M Grossman, founding editor of The Skeptic, reflects on the first 21 years of the magazine’s life

From the archives: Going to great lengths – long-hair pseudoscience

From the archives in 2011, Wendy Grossman looks at the miraculous supplements and regimes promoted on forums for people keen to grow and maintain long hair

Autism, MMR and the consequences of misguided science.

The news this week that The Lancet has retracted Andrew Wakefield's 1998 paper claiming to have found a link between autism and the MMR...

B Premanand 1930 – 2009.

Basava Premanand was India's leading skeptic and humanist; he published The Indian Skeptic and was a teacher, debunker,and performer.People compare him to James Randi,...
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