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''Skeptic'', colloquially known as ''Skeptic magazine'', is a quarterly science education and science advocacy magazine published internationally by The Skeptics Society, a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting scientific skepticism and resisting the spread of pseudoscience, superstition, and irrational beliefs.〔("What We Do" ). ''Skeptic''. Retrieved March 5, 2015.〕 Founded by Michael Shermer, founder of the Skeptics Society,〔("Meet Michael Shermer" ). ''Skeptic''. Retrieved March 5, 2015.〕 the magazine was first published in the spring of 1992 and is published through Millennium Press. Shermer remains the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the magazine and the magazine’s Co-publisher and Art Director is Pat Linse.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Masthead, ''Skeptic'' Magazine. )〕 Other noteworthy members of its editorial board include Oxford University evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist Jared Diamond, magician and escape artist-turned educator James “The Amazing” Randi, and actor, comedian, and ''Saturday Night Live '' alumna Julia Sweeney. ''Skeptic'' has an international circulation with over 50,000 subscriptions and is on major newsstands in the U.S. and Canada as well as Europe, Australia, and other countries.〔 == History, format and structure == The cover story of the magazine's very first issue paid tribute to scientist and science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov. 〔("Vol. 1 No.1 (Premiere Issue) Tribute to Isaac Asimov" ). ''Skeptic''. Retrieved March 5, 2015.〕 As Asimov wrote a number of stories featuring robots and coined the term "robotics", the cover of volume 12, #2 (2006), which is devoted to the topic of artificial intelligence, depicts a robot sitting on a park bench reading that first issue.〔("Vol. 12 No. 2 Artificial Intelligence" ). ''Skeptic''. Retrieved March 5, 2015.〕 Every issue of the magazine opens with a description of The Skeptics Society and its mission statement, which is to explore subjects such as creationism, pyramid power, Bigfoot, pseudohistorical claims (as in the examples of Holocaust denial and extreme Afrocentrism), the use or misuse of theory and statistics, conspiracy theories, urban myths, witch-hunts, mass hysterias, genius and intelligence, and cultural influences on science, as well as controversies involving protosciences at the leading edge of established science, and even fads like cryonics and low-carb diets. In addition to publishing the magazine, the Society also: * sponsors lecture series at the California Institute of Technology * produces and sells tapes of the lectures, as well as other books on pertinent subjects * holds field trips to investigate and research such subjects * conducts social events to promote good-will * provides resources for the public, skeptic organizations (such as SkeptiCamp〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Skepticamp )〕) and the media, with which they may approach controversial subjects from a skeptical viewpoint the magazine had three regular columnists. James Randi writes "’Twas Brillig…," Harriet A. Hall writes "The Skep Doc" and Karen Stollznow writes "Bad Language." The magazine's page count was between approximately 100 and 110 pages until the 2010s. It was reduced to approximately 80 pages with Vol. 16 No. 3 (2011). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skeptic (U.S. magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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