# Skeptic

- **Website:** <https://skeptic.com>
- **Primary alias:** `skeptic.com`
- **Employees:** 11+
- **Location:** Altadena, California, United States

## Description

Skeptic is a magazine and media platform dedicated to exploring complex issues through careful, nonpartisan, reality-based analysis. Its mission is to help readers make sense of the world and think independently, with coverage spanning science, psychology, health, history, philosophy, religion, climate, education, and public affairs. Articles examine subjects such as pseudoscience, neuroscience, governance, and culture, aiming to bring evidence and critical thinking to challenging conversations.

The brand also offers The Michael Shermer Show, a podcast featuring long-form discussions with scientists, philosophers, historians, writers, and other thinkers on important issues. Through the Skeptic Research Center, it publishes focused analyses of proprietary polling and survey data to illuminate public attitudes and behavior. Readers can explore the magazine, listen to podcast episodes, subscribe to email updates, and visit the online store. Skeptic further invites support through donations and provides opportunities to engage through events, article submissions, and advertising. Founded in 1992, it presents skepticism as a practical approach to evaluating claims and understanding complex questions.

## Industries

- 📊 Publishing and Printing _(under Business and Consumer Services)_
- 📊 Business and Consumer Services

## Links

- [youtube](https://youtube.com/skepticmagazine)
- [twitter](https://twitter.com/TheSkepticMag)

## Logos & icons

- logo _(primary)_ — PNG — [download](https://cdn.brandfetch.io/idZlrw1ZTA/w/256/h/256/theme/dark/logo.png?c=1bxid64Mup7aczewSAYMX&t=1791554697775)
- icon _(primary)_ — PNG — [download](https://cdn.brandfetch.io/idZlrw1ZTA/w/400/h/400/theme/dark/icon.png?c=1bxid64Mup7aczewSAYMX&t=1791554697928)

## Colors

| Name | Hex | Theme |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bull Shot | #88461e | dark |
| Varden | #fff5df | light |
| Flamingo | #f05230 | accent |

## Fonts

- Martel — asset _(google)_
- Atomic Marker — asset _(custom)_

## Imagery

- banner _(primary)_ — JPEG — [download](https://cdn.brandfetch.io/idZlrw1ZTA/w/1500/h/500/idC_uciRhe.jpeg?c=1bxid64Mup7aczewSAYMX&t=1726120483938)

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