Like CSICOP and the James Randi Educational Foundation, the Skeptics Society investigates extraordinary claims. Unlike CSICOP, it does not limit itself to potentially pseudoscientific claims, but also investigates such controversies as Holocaust revisionism and conspiracy theories. The group also sponsors a lecture series at CalTech, sells books about science and skepticism, host an annual awards ceremony and an annual scientific conference, holds social events, provides the media with information on controversial claims from a skeptical viewpoint, and maintains a website.
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The Skeptics Society and Skeptic Magazine (http://www.skeptic.com/)
Beyerstein serves as chair of the Society of B. Skeptics and he is a Fellow and a member of the Executive Council of CSICOP and serves on the editorial board of CSICOP's journal, The Skeptical Inquirer.
The Skeptic (UK) Digest is written by Wendy M. Grossman (http://www.pelicancrossing.net) and e-mailed quarterly alongside published issues of The Skeptic; there may be occasional additional mailings.
Skeptics in the Pub is a regular evening for all those interested in and/or skeptical of the paranormal, alternative medicine, psychic powers, pseudo-science, UFOs, alien abductions, creationism, Fortean phenomena, cult religions, water-divining, lost civilizations, etc. Further information and mailing list announcements available from pubatskeptic.org.uk.
SKEPTICMagazine Interview With Robert Sternberg on The Bell Curve Interview by Frank Miele Even though it was written for the media, Herrnstein and Murray's book has greatly increased public confusion and misconception about the relationship between heritability and environment.
Skeptic: It seems to me that a lot of the things that you are complaining about are the result of a social setting in which we teach people instead of letting them go at their own rate.
Skeptic: One of the criticisms of The Bell Curve, especially the now infamous Chapter 13 on race differences that the popular press makes a lot of, is that Herrnstein and Murray have cited the so-called "Tainted Sources," particularly people who have been funded by the Pioneer Fund.
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