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contribution in starting The Skeptic. What I am proud of is that it has attracted so many persistent supporters who have worked far harder to keep it alive and make it prosper than I ever did myself: Chris French and his Goldsmiths students; Hilary Evans, who has contributed both illustrations from the Mary Evans Picture Library and his own writing for so many years; cartoonists Donald Rooum and Ted Pearce; Toby Howard and Steve Donnelly, who edited the magazine for eight years and did the brutally hard work of growing the subscriber base; Peter O’Hara, my partner in getting the magazine out when it was photocopied and posted by hand; Michael Hutchinson; and the many, many contributors of articles and other features to the magazine who are too numerous to list. It is not a great thing to start a newsletter, but it is a great thing 20 years later to see it still alive and not dependent on its founder for its survival. That is really the key, because for something to have real, longterm impact it must be a community effort".
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to "recognise the effort and time that have gone into the community’s favourite skeptical blogs, skeptical podcasts, skeptical campaigns and outstanding contributors to the skeptical cause." The winners are selected by a panel, from submissions by the skeptical community. "The Editors' Choice Award"
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Even after stepping aside from The Skeptic's editorial board, Grossman has expressed a great satisfaction for all the magazine's accomplishments over the years and credits it to the sum of the work of many individuals in a common goal: "The thing I am actually proudest of in fact is not my own
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The magazine is also supported by an Editorial Advisory Board which as of 2015 included, among others:
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presents Alan Henness the 2015 Event / Campaign Award for "Stop the Saatchi Bill".
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The Skeptic cover for Volume 22, Issue 2, 2009: Parapsychology: Dead or Alive?
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more than five years earlier, after attending a lecture by stage magician
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thanks the skeptical community for the 2016 Blog Ockham.
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