NEWS FROM MILLENNIUM PRESS
& SKEPTIC MAGAZINE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Michael Shermer

Announcing a Completely Different Book Publisher

MILLENNIUM BOOKS

Publisher of Fine Books on Science and Religion

Millennium Press, in celebration of its five-year anniversary of publishing Skeptic magazine, is pleased to announce the founding of Millennium Books, publisher of fine books on science and religion. The first book published by Millennium Press, publication date March 23, 1997, is Tim Callahan's Bible Prophecy: Failure or Fulfillment? (see its press release). Other releases for 1997 and 1998 include Randel Helms' Who Wrote the Gospels? and Tom McIver's The Evolution of Creationism.

What makes Millennium Press a "completely different" book publisher? As an extension of the themes presented in Skeptic magazine and the Skeptics Society's prestigious lecture series at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Millennium Press presents book-length treatments of controversial subjects in science and religion. For our authors and speakers there are no sacred cows, no untouchable subjects; only evidence, logic, and coherent arguments.

With regard to statements, hypotheses, theories, and ideologies considered by Millennium Press and Skeptic magazine, we adopt the posture of the 17th-century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza: "I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

With regard to its procedure of examination of all claims, Millennium Press and Skeptic magazine uses the scientific method. It recognizes the limitations and socio-cultural influences on science, yet adopts the philosophy of Albert Einstein: "All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have."

Millennium Press, like Skeptic magazine, investigates claims by people in all fields and from all walks of life on a wide variety of theories and conjectures including but not limited to:

The question Millennium Press and Skeptic magazine ask about all claims investigated is this: How well do they hold up under rational and scientific scrutiny?

Millennium Press books and Skeptic magazine are international publications, available in all major retail chain bookstores and hundreds of independent bookstores, as well as university, college, and public libraries, throughout the United States and Canada, as well as Europe, Australia, and other foreign countries. Millennium books may also be ordered directly through Skeptic magazine, which also makes available videotapes of the Caltech lectures and all back issues of the magazine. The Skeptics Society also holds an annual conference and awards ceremony to recognize those who have made significant contributions toward the promotion of science and critical thinking.