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Shop Skeptic » The Online Store of The Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine ⚠ You have javascript turned off. This site requires it to function properly. Please turn it on in your browser preferences. The Skeptics Society & Skeptic magazine Search Menu Questions? Email or call 1-626-794-3119 . Subscribe to Skeptic Magazine Donate Skeptic back Issues Download Junior Skeptic back issues Latest Additions Best Sellers Top Picks (by Individual) $10 Books $5 Booklets Audio Books Books CLEARANCE DVDs Clothing and Swag DVDs and CDs Shipping Info Mobile Quicklinks subscriptions • books • back issues • Junior Skeptic • clothing • donations . SKEPTIC Print subscriptions & back issues Buy print subscription 4 ISSUES PER YEAR Starting at $30 Stephen Jay Gould called Skeptic magazine “The best journal in the field.” The definitive skeptical journal, Skeptic magazine makes a perfect gift that lasts all year (we publish 4 issues, 1 approximately every 3 months). Promoting science and critical thinking, our in-depth articles explore and inform. As the leading international publication in the realm of skeptical inquiry, it serves as an educational tool for those seeking a sound scientific viewpoint. Buy it. Read it. Share it. Help us make the world a more rational place by defending the role of science in society! Buy print back issues $6 ea. Skeptic magazine examines extraordinary claims, and serves as an educational tool for those seeking a sound scientific viewpoint. Complete your collection by getting the back issues you’re missing in your library. Order a back issue for a friend and introduce them to skepticism! Some back issues have completely sold out in print format and will not be printed again. Most of our back issues are available in digital format via PocketMags.com . THE MAGIC OF REALITY How Do We Know What’s Really True? Buy the paperback $16 For years people have wanted the renowned evolutionary biologist to write a book for kids on evolution. He has done that — and much more — with this highly engaging and well-illustrated work that will also enlighten adults who read it. Filled with clever thought experiments and jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena. This is a page-turning detective story that not only mines all the sciences for its clues but primes the reader to think like a scientist as well. THE SKEPTIC’S DICTIONARY A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions Buy the paperback $19.95 The definitive short-answer debunking of nearly everything skeptical. Nearly 400 definitions, arguments, and essays on topics ranging from acupuncture to zombies. Detailed information on all things supernatural, occult, paranormal, and pseudoscientific, including: alternative medicine; cryptozoology; extraterrestrials and UFOs; frauds and hoaxes; junk science; logic and perception; New Age energy; psychics. An invaluable reference. TEST YOUR SCIENCE IQ Can Ouija boards attract spirits? Is a new Ice Age coming? Do genuine haunted houses exist? What was the worst earthquake ever? Is there antimatter in our galaxy? Buy the paperback $20 If you’ve ever wondered where to find fast answers to questions such as these about our sometimes baffling world, now you can quickly locate the best information science has to offer in these enjoyable pages. Hundreds of addictive questions and answers covering both science and pseudoscience. Clear, well written, yet sophisticated enough for adults. Very strong on why science is important. Fascinating and fun for ages 12 to adult. The perfect book to start your junior skeptic on when trying to teach your child how science works and why it is so important to understanding the world. FLAVOR OF THE MONTH Why Smart People Fall for Fads Buy the hardcover $19.95 Sociologist Joel Best dissects the dangerous hula hoops of business, medicine, science and education in this exposition on institutional fads. According to Best, American attitudes toward progress (colored by optimism, competitiveness, a belief in positive change and a fear of being seen as old-fashioned) serve as kindling to the fire of the next big cure, technological revolution, business management secret or teaching method. Best delineates stages of the fad life-cycle (“emerging,” “surging,” then finally “purging”) and identifies conditions and players essential to creating a successful fad (a problem needs a solution, which is then proposed by originators and pushed by promoters). UFOS, CHEMTRAILS, AND ALIENS What Science Says Buy the hardcover $28 In this double-award-winning book, Donald R. Prothero and Tim Callahan explore why demonstrably false beliefs thrive despite decades of education and scientific debunking. Employing the ground rules of science and the standards of scientific evidence, Prothero and Callahan discuss a wide range of topics including the reliability of eyewitness testimony, psychological research into why people want to believe in aliens and UFOs, and the role conspiratorial thinking plays in UFO culture. Winner of the 2017 Robert P. Balles Award in Critical Thinking, and Winner of the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. THE MAGIC OF MATH Solving for x and Figuring Out Why Buy the hardcover $26 The Magic of Math is the math book you wish you had in school. Using a delightful assortment of examples — from ice cream scoops and poker hands to measuring mountains and making magic squares — this book empowers you to see the beauty, simplicity, and truly magical properties behind those formulas and equations that once left your head spinning. You’ll learn the key ideas of classic areas of mathematics like arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus, but you’ll also have fun fooling around with Fibonacci numbers, investigating infinity, and marveling over mathematical magic tricks that will make you look like a math genius! AUTOGRAPHED 1 st EDITION HARDCOVER Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist AUTOGRAPHED HARDCOVER $24.95 Who is the “Devil”? And what is he due? The devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have this for your own safety’s sake, because his freedom is inextricably tied to your own. If he can be censored, why shouldn’t you be censored? If we put barriers up to silence “unpleasant” ideas, what’s to stop the silencing of any discussion? This book is a full-throated defense of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture by the New York Times bestselling author and skeptic Michael Shermer. The new collection of essays and articles takes the devil by the horns by tackling five key themes: free thought and free speech, politics and society, scientific humanism, religion, and the ideas of controversial intellectuals. For our own sake, we must give the devil his due. Buy the autographed hardcover Buy Michael Shermer’s other books THE MAGIC DETECTIVES Join Them in Solving Strange Mysteries! Buy the paperback $15 Want to encourage scientific awareness in children and have them see it as challenging, interesting, and just plain fun? Science-based paranormal investigator Joe Nickell presents thirty brief mystery stories with clues embedded in each story. At the end of each mystery, the reader can turn the book upside down and see if they have come to the same conclusion reached by the professional “magic detectives.” Included are examinations of the “mummy’s curse”, bigfoot, haunted stairways, walking on fire, ancient astronauts, the Reverend Peter Popoff, the Amityville Horror, the Loch Ness monster, poltergeists, and more. THE NEW AGE Notes of a Fringe Watcher Buy the paperback $26 This book is a classic of skeptical literature and a bountiful offering of the delightful drollery and horse sense that has made Martin Gardner the undisputed dean of the critics of pseudoscience. It is also a quick way to get up to speed on many topics. Thirty-thr...