Friday, September 15, 2023

PDFs - "The Skeptic" (UK), first 100 issues : Largest single upload of skeptical material?

I think this may be the largest single upload by me so far (or anyone else, for that matter...) of material by prominent skeptics from Britain and around the world. 

I have now uploaded the first 100 issues of the British magazine "The Skeptic", thanks to scanning by our friends at the AFU in Sweden. After my pestering some of "The Skeptic" team since 2018 (politely, I hope), the current and former editors of "The Skeptic" (i.e.  Michael Marshall, Wendy Grossman, Deborah Hyde and Chris French) kindly indicated this year that they had no objection to this upload. 

As summarised on the website of "The Skeptic", that publication is "the UK’s longest-running publication offering skeptical analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claims of the paranormal". It was founded in 1987 and continues to be published. It "has become an invaluable resource for journalists, teachers, psychologists, and inquisitive people of all ages who yearn to discover the truth behind the many extraordinary claims of paranormal and unusual phenomena".

This sizeable upload joins a host of skeptical material in my online archive hosted by the AFU.

For ease of reference, the skeptical material currently in my online archive is listed below (this material being in addition, of course, to the mass of ufological / Fortean material from other viewpoints that I have uploaded to that archive in recent years with the help of well over 100 UFO groups / researchers around the world and, of course, permission from the relevant individuals: 


(1) "Skeptic UFO Newsletter" by Philip Klass 

(2) John Rimmer's "Magonia

(3) Ian Mrzyglod's "Probe"  

(4) Tim Printy's "SUNlite" 

(5) "Tampa Bay Skeptics Report"

(6) "North Texas Skeptic"

(7) "South Shore Skeptic"

(8) "Arizona Skeptic"

(9) "Phoenix Skeptics News

(10) "Georgia Skeptics" newsletter

(11) "Bay Area Skeptics Information Sheet

(12) "Cincinnati Skeptic"

(13) "REALL News"  (Rational Examination Association of Lincoln Land)

(14) "Skeptical Eye" (National Capital Area Skeptics, NCAS)

(15) "Shadow of a Doubt" (National Capital Area Skeptics, NCAS)

(16) The book "Flying Saucerers" by David Clarke and Andy Roberts ("A social history of Ufology")

(17) The book "The UFOs That Never Were" by Jenny Randles, Andy Roberts and David Clarke (in my view arguably the best UFO book in the last 50 years...)

(18)   a PDF archive of about 10,000 pages of Tweets by skeptics Mick West and Charlie Wiser

(19) a PDF archive of over 4 million pages of automated transcripts of UFO podcasts and videos, including those by several skeptics e.g. Mick West

Incidentally, after I uploaded one of the skeptical newsletters mentioned above, I was blocked by one or two UFOtwitter users that I had never interacted with (or mentioned and, frankly, rarely heard of). This large upload of further skeptical material is, in part, my response to those individuals...  :) 


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