But a vigorous minority of skeptical scientists were unmoved by the new findings.

On Monday, the National Academy of Sciences disassociated itself from the most recent effort to drum up support among skeptical scientists.

He is pure scientist - cerebral, acerbic and deeply skeptical of anything not buttressed by hard data.

The natives plead with the skeptical scientists not to take the baby away, lest it anger the baby's parents.

Beginning her fieldwork as a skeptical scientist, she began to think in magical terms.

Indeed, I suspect that many skeptical scientists fed their early interest in gadgets by watching science fiction movies as children.

If you're a good skeptical scientist, so much Oz would not be proof of life.

One skeptical scientist wrote, "There is a great difference between being attacked by a shark and being bitten by one."

But the problem, some skeptical scientists say, is that nature is full of surprises.

Cryptozoologists function as interventionists between witnesses and skeptical scientists.