The Real Secrets of Fatima, Joe Nickell's 2009 article in Skeptical Inquirer, examines the 1917 Fatima apparitions from a skeptical investigative standpoint, drawing on Nickell's own long career investigating claimed miraculous phenomena. Its strength is that it is a sustained investigative treatment engaging the documented historical record of the events rather than dismissing them without examination. Its limit is that Skeptical Inquirer is popular skeptical press journalism, not peer reviewed academic scholarship, and its investigative conclusions represent one interpretive stance among the several that the Fatima events have generated.
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Reliability Tier1
Source-type journal-article, precedent 4 of 4 tier 1 (small sample). Skeptical Inquirer is an investigative rather than peer-reviewed journal; recorded honestly against the tag's own thin precedent. NotesA Skeptical Inquirer magazine article examining the Fatima apparitions from a skeptical investigative standpoint (2009); popular skeptical-press journalism, not peer-reviewed scholarship.
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AuthorJoe Nickell
PublisherSkeptical Inquirer, vol. 33 no. 6
Publication Year2009
Source TypeJournal article
Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Miracles, 2 claims: 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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