Skeptical Inquirer Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==History== The magazine was originally titled ''The Zetetic'' (from the Greek meaning "skeptical seeker" or "inquiring skeptic"), and was originally edited by [[Marcello Truzzi]].{{R|Exuberant}} About a year after its inception a [[schism]] developed between the editor Truzzi and the rest of the [[Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal]] (CSICOP). The side represented by CSICOP was more "firmly opposed to nonsense, more willing to go on the offensive and to attack supernatural claims"{{R|HofstadterMetamagP95}} and the other side ("The relativist faction (one member)"{{R|HofstadterMetamagP95}}, i.e. Truzzi) wanted science and pseudoscience to exist "happily together". Truzzi left to start ''The Zetetic Scholar'' and CSICOP changed the magazine's name to ''Skeptical Inquirer''.{{R|Hofstadter}} Loxton speculates on the answer to the question that if ''Skeptical Inquirer'' was not the first skeptical publication, why is it considered to be the {{"'}}birth of modern skepticism' (at least for the English-speaking world)"? He writes that it was because CSICOP organized "this scholarship collectively [and] comprised a distinct field of study." The organization was the first to establish "best practices... specialist experts... buildings... periodicals and professional writers and researchers."{{R|LoxtonMandate}} The January/February 2023 issue featured an article by Craig Foster that examined ''Skeptical Inquirer'' Vol. 1, no. 1 comparing it to the current publication, and found that "1976 principles of skepticism" still resonate forty-six years later "The Truzzi and Kurtz editorials are so consistent with contemporary skepticism, I think ''Skeptical Inquirer'' could reprint them today, without dates, and readers wouldn’t find them peculiar." Furthermore "The only out-of-place sentiment seems to be imagining the journal as an exchange between skeptics and paranormal promotors"<ref>{{cite web |last1=Foster |first1=Craig |title=On the Origin of Skeptical Inquirer |url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/12/on-the-origin-of-skeptical-inquirer/ |website=Skeptical Inquirer |access-date=10 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124143616/https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/12/on-the-origin-of-skeptical-inquirer/ |archive-date=24 January 2023}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page