the founder and managing editor of the Consumer Warning Network writing extensively for that organization. In his capacity at the Network he has been interviewed on local and national news programs and appeared in videos produced by the organization on a variety of topics including the foreclosure crisis, consumer scams and homeopathy. With Charles Wachter he authored a book for lawyers on class action suits in Florida. Skepticism He was a founding member and since 1989 he has been chairman of the Tampa Bay Skeptics, a scientific skeptic non-profit organization (affiliated with the Center for Inquiry) that Smiljanich says is, "devoted to critical examination of paranormal and fringe-science claims". He described the goals of the organization "to counteract some of the kooks out there" and "attempt to impose some rationality in the world." In a 1990 letter to the editor he chided the St. Petersburg Times for a credulous review of a book on UFOs saying such content may boost circulation, "but do little to encourage proper skepticism in a country quickly slipping into scientific illiteracy." In another letter to the editor of the paper, in 1993, he called astrology and creationism pseudosciences whose claims should be subject to scientific analysis, going on to say, "The fact that they have failed miserably in that regard allows scientists to throw them into the garbage heap along with flat earths, mind reading, and fortune telling." In a 2008 St. Petersburg Times article on a guardian angel seminar Matt Albucher quotes Smiljanich, "I say before you believe in something, you should require some credible evidence. In this case, there is none" Since 1989 the Tampa Bay Skeptics has offered a $1,000 challenge to anyone able to prove the existence of paranormal powers under mutually agreed testing protocols, similar to the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge offered by the James Randi Educational Foundation. Regarding the challenge he has said, "Our money is safe" There have been ten attempts, including two that were televised, and no successes. From 1988 to 2013 the Tampa Bay Skeptics published a quarterly newsletter, The Tampa Bay Skeptics Report for which Smiljanich was a regular contributor. He has written for the Skeptical Inquirer, a national magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and The Tampa Tribune. In 2010 he spoke at a meeting of the Humanist Society of the Suncoast in Florida. Philanthropy Smiljanich is a member of the