Team
Skeptics Society and Skeptic magazine
Michael Shermer
Executive Director & Editor-in-Chief
Alexander Reiman
Director of Strategy
William Bull
Art Director
Frank Miele
Senior Editor
Kevin McCaffree
Research Scientist
Anondah Saide
Research Scientist
Barry Bakalor
Copy Editor
Carol Tavris
Contributing Editor
Katherine Brodsky
Contributing Editor
Tim Callahan
Contributing Editor
Donald Prothero
Contributing Editor
Frank Sulloway
Researcher
Diane Knudtson
Financial Officer
David Patton
Photographer
Jerry Friedman, JD
Database
Jared Diamond
Advisor, Editorial Board Member
Steven Pinker
Advisor, Editorial Board Member
Christof Koch
Advisor, Editorial Board Member
Pat Linse (1947–2021)
Co-Founder & Art Director, Skeptics Society
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Editorial Board
Arthur Benjamin
Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College
Magician
Roger Bingham
Science Author
Television Essayist
April Bleske-Rechek
Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
K.C. Cole
Science Writer, Los Angeles Times
Richard Dawkins
Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford
Jared Diamond
Professor of Geography & Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA
Clayton J. Drees
Professor of History, VWU
Mark Edward
Professional Magician & Mentalist
Gregory Forbes
Professor of Biology, Grand Rapids Community College
John Gribbin
Astrophysicist
Science Writer
Christof Koch
Professor of Cognitive & Behavioral Biology, California Institute of Technology
Robert Maranto
Professor of Education & Education Reform, University of Arkansas
William McComas
Director, Project to Advance Science Education, University of Arkansas
Leonard Mlodinow
Physicist, Caltech
Bill Nye
Executive Director, The Planetary Society
Steven Pinker
Cognitive Psychologist, Harvard University
Donald Prothero
Professor of Geology, Cal Poly, Pomona
Catherine Salmon
Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, Human-Animal Studies, University of Redlands
Nancy Segal
Professor of Psychology, CSU, Fullerton
Eugenie Scott
(Retired) Executive Director, National Center for Science Education
Frank Sulloway
Research Scholar, MIT
Julia Sweeney
Writer
Actor
Comedian
Carol Tavris
Social Psychologist
Author
Stuart Vyse
Behavioral Scientist, Author
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