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This week Point of Inquiry welcomes Daniel Loxton, longtime Editor of\xa0Junior Skeptic, the 10-page kids' science section bound within Skeptic magazine, author and illustrator of the national award-winning kids' science book\xa0Evolution: How We and All Living Beings Came to Be, and a series of illustrated books subtitled\xa0Tales of Prehistoric Life.\xa0Loxton has published two major essays on skeptical activism; "Where Do We Go From Here?"\xa0in 2007, dealing with the focus and direction of the new generation of skepticism, and which helped to inspire the\xa0SkeptiCamp\xa0community organized conferences on\xa0scientific skepticism; and "What Do I Do Next?"\xa0in 2009, providing ideas and suggestions for individual involvement in the skepticism movement.

Recently, Loxton, along with co-author Donald R. Prothero, has written an entertaining, educational and definitive text on cryptids, presenting the arguments both for and against their existence.\xa0Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids\xa0systematically challenges the pseudoscience that perpetuates these myths, and examines the nature of the science and pseudoscience within cryptozoology.\xa0