clipped from: www.austhink.org Ten Outstanding Skeptics of the Century, from Skeptical Inquirer magazine.
"In a century filled with UFO sightings, psychic claims, doomsday prophecies, quack therapies, pseudoscientific gadgetry, conspiracy claims, New Age spiritualism, and paranormal mystery-mongering, which individuals rank as the ten outstanding skeptics of the last one hundred years? Who are the brightest champions of science and reason-exposing deception, uncovering fraud, identifying nonsense, and solving so-called "mysteries"?"
Francis Bacon
What a pity... such a great critical thinker and not a decent website to his name... at least I haven't been able to find one yet. There are plenty of mediocre ones. The link above is a Google search on Francis Bacon.
George Orwell
Complete bibliography, short biography, and a whole lot of other stuff.