When Catherine Bottiau meets a sceptic she offers them a chance to have their own handwriting analysed, she says.
His declaration of this belief caused, he admitted, profound shock to those who knew him only as a sceptic.
Though he remains a sceptic, he provides a wealth of information to let the rest of us make up our minds.
That experience gives one useful definition of a sceptic, as Mr Shermer understands the term: one who is aware of the fallibility of intuitions, and willing to take steps to minimise them.
Whether you find this a relief or a frustration is a good indication of whether you are a Euro-sceptic or a Euro-enthusiast.
Like so many blue-collar white men, Hank is now a political sceptic.
The editor-in-chief of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, is a leading sceptic of paywalls and has vowed to keep most of the content of his newspaper free online.
William Perry, who was a notable sceptic about NATO expansion.
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She admitted she was a "sceptic" about electoral reform because she believed all the evidence suggested that an alternative put more power into the hands of politicians rather than the people.
But something seems to have worried them, and they will now be reading the runes of a summit that ended with an unprecedented decision to cut EU spending, trying to evaluate whether this is a one-off or a symptom of a more troubling shift in Europe's centre of gravity - a move in a more sceptic direction.
But Philip Stott, professor of biogeography at the University of London, UK, a longstanding climate change sceptic, sounded a different note.
Sweden's great and good, ignoring traditional political divisions, are lining up to woo a euro-sceptic people.
During a debate on the government's energy and climate change policy on 2 November 2010, Lord Lawson, a prominent climate change sceptic, poured scorn on the idea that there would be a binding world agreement on cutting carbon emissions.
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There's nothing like living in France, to turn a loyal pro-European into a devout Euro-sceptic.
WHO, can be counted upon to enter almost any health debate as a sharp-tongued sceptic.
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But Olympic sceptic Simon Jenkins, a Guardian columnist, said it was easy to complete the "crazy project" on budget, if the budget was continually increased.
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Unlike his predecessor, the notoriously euro-sceptic Vaclav Klaus, Mr Zeman describes himself as a euro-federalist and is an advocate of closer European integration, though he believes that the Czech Republic should take its time over joining the euro.
Gavin Schmidt, a scientist at NASA and the keeper of realclimate.org, an anti-sceptic blog, wrote that that e-mail was very ill-advised.
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Welsh Secretary David Jones - who says he's moved from "devo-sceptic" to "devo-realist" - opened the debate with a 28-minute speech in which he carefully avoided saying what he thought of the proposals or indeed whether the UK government would implement them.
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