Launched in 2004, Pensar: Revista Iberoamericana para la Ciencia y la Razón (Think: Ibero-American Magazine for Science and Reason) was the first magazine published by the Center for Inquiry/Committee for Skeptical Inquiry for the Spanish-speaking public. Due in part to high printing and international postage costs, the magazine ended its print run in 2009.

However, Pensar has now returnedin digital format. It deals with issues that interest skeptics, agnostics, and freethinkers. Pensar has several sections, including “Dossier,” where reports on specific stories or matters related to beliefs, pseudosciences, people, or cases that have become famous (or infamous) in the skeptical and scientific worlds are presented. “Ask without Permission” is a column where readers can ask about any topic covered in the magazine, from paranormal claims to urban legends. Skeptical Inquirer Deputy Editor Benjamin Radford, who was Editor-in-Chief of Pensar when the magazine was in print, used to write this column.

“We Are Still Doing This” is a section that deals with those “unsinkable rubber duck” topics that never seem to go away no matter how often—or how thoroughly—they’re debunked. Examples include flat-earth beliefs, alien visitations, the myth of blank votes in presidential elections, disease cures (including, recently, COVID-19), and of course perpetual plagues, such as astrologers and psychics. “Observatory” reports on the latest news from the paranormal world: UFOs, witchcraft, paranormal events, alternative medicines, and so on.

There is also a humor section, “The Crabalocker Inquirer Informs.” In the satirical magazine The Crabalocker Inquirer, a pair of fictional authors, Albert Böhr and Uri Randi, write about the most hilarious cases of extravagant, irrational, insane, magical ideas. Other sections include reviews (of books, films, television shows, events, etc.) and opinion and editorial pages.

I am grateful that the Center for Inquiry has trusted me to relaunch and direct the magazine. We are making great strides and have started to publish articles in Portuguese (due to an agreement with Brazilian magazine Questão de Ciência) and English as well as Spanish. Pensar magazine is one more contribution—one more grain of sand—to spread critical thinking and freethinking. We have collaborators from many countries, including Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Perú, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, México, and the United States. Readers are encouraged to subscribe to Pensar at pensar.org.