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The world\u2019s leading paranormal investigator, Joe Nickell is a regular\ncontributor to Skeptical Inquirer science magazine. He is the author or\neditor of more than twenty books, including Looking for a Miracle, Inquest on the Shroud of Turin, and most recently The Relics of the Christ.

In this discussion with D.J. Grothe, Joe Nickell expounds on his\nunique kind of paranormal investigating, which is neither "mystery\nmongering," nor "debunking." He emphasizes how his humanist values\ncarry over into his skeptical work, and how his notion of "doing good"\nis applied to skepticism as a movement. He criticizes many in the\nskeptical movement who seem not to care to honor claimants with\non-the-ground investigations, instead dismissing from the "armchair"\nthat a supernatural claim is impossible. He also challenges those with\nthe "ghost hunter" mentality, who lack effective training in\ninvestigation and instead just promote belief in unsupportable\nparanormal claims, even while engaging in important field\ninvestigations. Nickell ends discussing the future of the skeptical\nmovement and the odds he thinks it has to adopt the kind of "humanistic\nskepticism" he promotes.\xa0