Skeptic Magazine
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
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| News | Free | MAGAZINECLONER.COM US LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
The Skeptic Magazine App comes with a free, 44-page Preview Issue.
Skeptic magazine examines extraordinary claims, revolutionary ideas, promotes critical thinking, and serves as an educational tool for those seeking a sound scientific viewpoint. Each issue examines a specific theme and explores various social, scientific, and paranormal controversies. We investigate claims of the paranormal, pseudoscience, fringe groups, cults and claims between: science, pseudoscience, junk science, voodoo science, pathological science, bad science, non science and plain old nonsense. Our contributors are top experts in their fields—leading scientists, scholars, and investigative journalists. The magazine has been called “stimulating and provocative" by Carl Sagan, “clearly superior…gutsy” by Edward O. Wilson, and “the best journal in the field” by Stephen Jay Gould. Our editor-in-chief, Dr. Michael Shermer, has been called the most prominent skeptic in America, and his monthly column in Scientific American, and his numerous books and media appearances have made Skeptic a respected voice in academia. Included in each issue of Skeptic is Junior Skeptic magazine. While written for younger readers, it provides an outstanding summary of classical paranormal topics, and is one of the favorite parts of the magazine for adults as well. Its editor, Daniel Loxton, recently won Canada’s prestigious Best Science Book Award for Young Readers.
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Free app with paid content within.
Within the app users can purchase the current issue and back issues.
Subscriptions are also available within the application. A subscription will start from the next released issue.
Available subscriptions are:
12 months: £10.49/ US$14.99 (4 quarterly issues) with a FREE 30 day trial
-This subscription has a free trial period of 30 days. At the end of the 30 days the full price of the subscription will be charged.
-You may cancel a subscription during its free trial period via the subscription settings on your iTunes account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the subscription period to avoid being charged.
-The subscription will renew automatically unless cancelled more than 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will be charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period, for the same duration and at the current subscription rate for the product.
-You may prevent the auto-renewal of subscriptions through your Account Settings, however you are not able to cancel the current subscription during its active period.
Users can register for/ login to a pocketmags account in-app. This will protect their issues in the case of a lost device and allow browsing of purchases on multiple platforms. Existing pocketmags users can retrieve their purchases by logging into their account.
We recommend loading the app for the first time in a wi-fi area so that all issue data is retrieved.
If your app will not load past the splash page after a first install or an update please delete and reinstall the app from the App Store
Help and frequently asked questions be accessed in-app and on pocketmags.
If you have any problems at all please do not hesitate to contact us: [email protected]
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Reviews
Great magazine
drjefferson
I have been reading this magazine for many years. More than any other is gets at the scientific truth behind so much nonsense disinformation in the world.
Great to have the digital version
Bakari C
Since I read nearly everything on my iPad or phone, the digital version of this journal makes reading the it much more accessible. I can easily read it in bed with even with the lamp turned off. I also appreciate the Reader view feature that turns an article into a single long page for scrolling. The only most important feature missing for me is a highlighter. When I read non-fiction I always want to annotate what I'm reading for later review. It's great that the app allows for copying and pasting selected text, but a highlighter is also needed.
Well explained articles
Saneape
They go to the trouble to dig into the subjects related to pseudoscience and expose the tools charlatans use against us. A valuable source of info.
Skeptic is great, the app is not
%<>%
The reader mode on the Skeptic app is mediocre at best. It changes article formatting in confusing ways and has typos that are not present in the magazine. The app developer has not issued an update in over a year. Does this mean that they think the app is already perfect?
Should be part of regular education
DDS2010
The education of a society should include technical knowledge of how to continue educating yourself and how not to be fooled by bad or misleading information. This magazine does just that. From articles of atheism, pseudo science, and myths to real scientific knowledge, Skeptic magazine helps me wade through the BS to arrive at reality.
App Does not Work
Marie2525
I purchased a subscription yesterday after looking through the free preview. On my iPad the covers do not show and so far I have not been able to even look at the subscribed magazine. All my devices continuously loop in trying to download from the 3rd party (pocketmags). Have not had success to view my PAID subscription on either my iPad 2, iPhone 5, Mac, or my work PC. Nobody has responded to my two email inquiries. I DO NOT RECOMMEND!!
Primitive App
BBensned
With so many good magazine and newspaper reader interactive apps to use as models, the Wall Street Journal being a laudable example, there is no excuse for foisting this primitive app on subscribers. What you get is nothing more than a photocopy of the print version that is not even scaled for iPad users. Web link citations are not interactive and if that is not annoying enough, there is no way to cut and paste them into a browser either. I am a big fan of Skeptic Magazine but this app is more annoying than useful.
Text is fuzzy even at full page
Hornet52
The resolution is terrible. The text is blurry even when zoomed out completely. Really bad reading experience.
Simply Terrible
RKDPeterson
I have subscribed to Skeptic for more than two years and love the magazine. A few months ago, I subscribed to the e-version. I got one issue to download when I first subscribed, but now I can't get the latest issue to download. The app wants me to pay for the issue or pay for a yearly subscription...again! I use materials from this magazine in the courses that I teach, so I really need to see the latest issue for which I've already paid. I have contacted Pocketmags but so far no response. Skeptic needs to fire that company and get another app provider.
