Skeptical symbol?

[UnrepentantSinner]

So... I was driving home from work this morning and I saw a near omnipresent - at least in Texas - Icthyos adhesive on a car in front of me -- this after seeing a "Truth" fish eating a "Darwin" fish (and yes, my irony meter literally blew up when I saw it) last night, I came upon an idea for a similar Icthyos/Darwin fish idea for a symbol that might universally appeal to both secular and religious skeptics.

As I see it, since skepticism is a process, and not a wedded position, the proper symobol of skepticism is something that combines the question ("where is the evidence" or "is this too good to be true") with the investigation of the claim (seeing how many dowsers are accurate or how many Nigerian war widows come through with their promises of millions).

My idea for a skeptical symbol was the combination of a question mark and the stereotypical (and now hopelessly outdated - but still cuturally relevant) magnifying glass.  At a stop light on my commute, I drew an awful prototype which I'm hoping someone with better design or graphics skills than myself can produce.

If any of you out there can come up with a decent looking chimera of a question mark and magnifying glass, I'd really love to see it.  Maybe it will be good enough to grace websites and vehicles as ubiquitously as the Icthyos and Darwin Fish.

[no one in particular]

Perhaps something like this one:

http://www.skepticalcommunity.com/theme ... s/logo.jpg

?

[Skepchick]

One of my favorite skeptic images Australian Skeptics

[JR]

And the logo from the belgian (flemish) skeptics: http://www.skepp.be

[UnrepentantSinner]

The suggestions are good (the Belgian Skeptics being nearest to what I'm thinking of), but it I'm aiming towards something graphically compact that could be made into an applicade like the Ictyhos or Darwin Fish.  My prototype had the magnifying glass either surrounded by the question mark or forming most of it's structure.

My only fear is that one rendered as a pin or applicade symbol wouldn't be obvious as to what the component imagery was.  The flip side of that is people asking, "what is that on your tailgate" might offer chances for us to discuss skepticism with the uninitiated.

Eh... it was just a musing I had on my commute home.  8)

[The Odd Emperor]

The suggestions are good (the Belgian Skeptics being nearest to what I'm thinking of), but it I'm aiming towards something graphically compact that could be made into an applicade like the Ictyhos or Darwin Fish.  My prototype had the magnifying glass either surrounded by the question mark or forming most of it's structure.

My only fear is that one rendered as a pin or applicade symbol wouldn't be obvious as to what the component imagery was.  The flip side of that is people asking, "what is that on your tailgate" might offer chances for us to discuss skepticism with the uninitiated.

Eh... it was just a musing I had on my commute home.  8)

Apparently I watched too much Babylon 5. The Belgian one made me think “shall we psi corps?” The psi-corps were a cult-like, militaristic group of telepaths that were often used as heavies on the show who put the letter psi on everything.

http://members.aol.com/bester111/

[Fung Punkin]

(and yes, my irony meter literally blew up when I saw it)

Literally

*skeptic logo here*

[Beleth]

I like the idea of a stylized magnifying glass, but I'm afraid it'll look too much like either the popular male/female symbols.

Maybe a magnifying glass with an eyeball in it?  Or would that look too much like the CBS logo?