Was The Brown Spectator or Skeptic published first?
Skeptic (U.S. magazine) Skeptic, colloquially known as Skeptic magazine, is a quarterly science education and science advocacy magazine published internationally by The Skeptics Society, a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting scientific skepticism and resisting the spread of pseudoscience, superstition, and irrational beliefs. Founded by Michael Shermer, founder of the Skeptics Society, the magazine was first published in the spring of 1992 and is published through Millennium Press.
Andrew Brown (writer) Andrew Brown (born 1955 in London) is a British journalist, writer, and editor. He was one of the founding staff members of "The Independent", where he worked as religious correspondent, parliamentary sketch writer, and a feature writer. He has written extensively on technology for "Prospect" and the "New Statesman" and been a feature writer on the Guardian. He has worked as the editor for the "Belief" section of The Guardian's Comment is Free which won a Webby under his leadership and is currently a leader writer and member of the paper's editorial board. He is also the press columnist of the "Church Times". "In The Beginning was the Worm" (2004) was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize. "Fishing in Utopia" (2008) won the Orwell Prize and was nominated for the Dolman Best Travel Book Award in 2009.