My second guess is Michael Shermer.

Is there a prize for who guesses the correct famous skeptic?

You know, I actually thought about doing that. But then I realized:

1) Such a thing (with vote tracking and prizes) would be difficult to put together in the limited time I have right now.

2) I literally don’t yet have the quote/review from this person. I probably will, but I don’t want to build up a big contest for something that might still get cancelled.

But, to spark your interest, here are some clues: this person has appeared on TV (cable and nationally-broadcast), has written books, and has been interviewed by most high-profile skeptical podcasts. This person is not John Stossel, though this person and John share multiple weird similarities.

That’s intentionally an “astrological clue” – it’s vague enough that it should apply to a lot of people. :)

You’re welcome to guess. You will soon get the mental satisfaction of knowing if you’re right.

Andy

>My daughter bought a Scooby-Doo movie recently and… they’ve gone to the dark side.

Weird. I didn’t know that – I thought one of the trademarks of Scooby-Doo was that it was all a hoax, that Old Man McGillicutty was all behind it. Maybe they’ve simply ran the plots into the ground because they had to – continued profit from the Scooby mythos at the expense of the original theme.

After all, if you’ve seen one “cranky geezer played by a celebrity voice who’s faking that his broken-down movie studio is haunted to keep people out so bad guys can use the film storage room to tunnel through to the bank next store and get away with a perfect though overly complex crime”, then you’ve seen them all.

Andy