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.
Basava Premanand Basava Premanand (17 February 1930 – 4 October 2009) was a skeptic and rationalist from Kerala, India. He organised many tours around rural India for the promotion of scientific thinking, exposing alleged miracles and scams carried out by various gurus and spreading awareness of superstition. Premanand was the founder of the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations, the convener of Indian CSICOP and the owner-publisher-editor of the monthly magazine "The Indian Skeptic", which scientifically investigates paranormal occurrences in India. He was known as one of the most vocal critics of Satya Sai Baba.