List of skeptical organizations

 

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This is a list organizations that promote or practice scientific skepticism.

Name (English / local (abbreviation))	Founded	Region served	Notes
Argentinian Skeptical Circle / Círculo Escéptico Argentino[1] (CEA)	2010	Argentina
Association against Quackery / Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (VtdK)	1881	Netherlands	Oldest skeptical organisation.[2] Member of ECSO.[citation needed]
Association for Skeptical Enquiry (ASKE)	1997	United Kingdom	Member of ECSO.[3]
Australian Skeptics	1980	Australia
Bihar Rationalist Society / Bihar Buddhiwadi Samaj (BRS)	1985	India	Member of FIRA.
Brazilian Society of Skeptics and Rationalists / Sociedade Brasileira de Céticos e Racionalistas (SBCR)	2001	Brazil
Center for Inquiry (CFI)	1991	World	Global umbrella organisation based in Amherst, New York.
Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism (CASS)	2010	Canada	Part of Centre for Inquiry Canada.[4]
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), formerly Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)	1976	United States	Part of the Center for Inquiry.
Committee Para / Comité Para[5]	1949	Belgium	Member of ECSO.[3] Serves Wallonia and Brussels.
Commission of Fight with Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research / Комиссия по борьбе с лженаукой и фальсификацией научных исследований	1999	Russia	Organized by RAS or RAN (not to be confused with RANS or RAEN).
Czech Skeptics Club Sisyfos / Český klub skeptiků Sisyfos (Sisyfos)	1995	Czech Republic	Member of ECSO.[3]
Dakshina Kannada Rationalist Association / தட்சிண கன்னட பகுத்தறிவாளர் ஒன்றியம் (DKRA)	1976	India	Member of FIRA.
Edinburgh Skeptics Society (EdSkeptics)	2009	United Kingdom
European Council of Skeptical Organisations (ECSO)	1994	Europe	European umbrella organisation, based in Roßdorf, Germany.
Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations / இந்திய பகுத்தறிவாளர் ஒன்றியங்களின் பேரவை (FIRA)	1997	India	Indian umbrella organisation.
Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF)	1978	United States	Focuses on state/church separation, nontheism, and atheism.
French Association for Scientific Information / Association française pour l’information scientifique (AFIS)	1968[6]	France	Member of ECSO.[3]
Glasgow Skeptics	2009	United Kingdom
Good Thinking Society	2012	United Kingdom
Het Denkgelag	2012	Belgium
Hungarian Skeptic Society / Szkeptikus Társaság (HSS)	2006	Hungary	Member of ECSO.[3]
Independent Investigations Group (IIG)	2000	United States
Indian CSICOP	19??	India	Affiliated with CSI, member of FIRA.
Indian Rationalist Association (IRA)	1949	India	Member of Rationalist International.
Irish Skeptics Society	2002	Ireland	Member of ECSO.[3]
Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Pseudosciences / Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sulle Pseudoscienze (CICAP)	1989	Italy	Member of ECSO.[3]
James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF)	1996	United States
Maharashtra Committee for Eradication of Blind Faith / Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS)	1989	India	Member of FIRA.
Merseyside Skeptics Society (MSS)	2009	United Kingdom
MTÜ Eesti Skeptik (skeptik.ee)	2007	Estonia
National Capital Area Skeptics (NCAS)	1987	United States	Serves Washington metropolitan area.
Network of Independent Danish Skeptics[3][7][8][9] / Skeptica	1997	Denmark
New England Skeptical Society (NESS)	1996	United States	Fusion of three earlier organisations.
New Zealand Skeptics[10] (NZ Skeptics)	1986	New Zealand
Nirmukta	2008	India
Philippine Atheists and Agnostics Society (PATAS)	2011	Philippines
Polish Sceptics Club / Klub Sceptyków Polskich (KSP)[11][12]	2010	Poland
Portuguese Skeptical Community / Comunidade Céptica Portuguesa (COMCEPT)	2012	Portugal
Rational Alternative to Pseudoscience - Society for the Advancement of Critical Thinking / Alternativa Racional a las Pseudociencias - Sociedad para el Avance del Pensamiento Crítico[13] (ARP-SAPC)	1986	Spain	Member of ECSO.[3]
Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (RDFRS)	2006	UK &  US	The American and British branches are independent.
Round Earth Society / Sociedade da Terra Redonda (STR)	1999	Brazil
Science and Popular Enlightenment / Föreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning (VoF)	1982	Sweden	Member of ECSO.[3]
Science and Rationalists' Association of India / Bharatiya Bigyan O Yuktibadi Samiti	1985	India	Based in Kolkata, West Bengal.
SKEPP[14]	1990	Belgium	Member of ECSO.[3] Serves Flanders and Brussels.
Skepsis ry	1987	Finland	Member of ECSO.[3]
Skepsis Foundation / Stichting Skepsis (Skepsis)	1987	Netherlands	Member of ECSO.[3]
Skepsis Norway / Skepsis Norge (Skepsis)[15]	[citation needed]	Norway
Skeptical Association of Chile / Asociación Escéptica de Chile (AECH)	2010	Chile
Skeptical Circle / Círculo Escéptico (CE)	2006	Spain	Member of ECSO.[3]
Skeptic Society / Общество скептиков[16]	2013[17]	Russia
Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences / Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften (GWUP)	1987	D-A-CH	Based in Roßdorf, Germany. Member of ECSO.[3]
Swiss Skeptics – Association for Critical Thinking / Skeptiker Schweiz – Verein für kritisches Denken (Skeptiker)	2012	Switzerland
The Skeptics Society	1992	United States	Globally active, but mainly serves California
Young Australian Skeptics (YAS)	2008	Australia
Zetetic Observatory / Observatoire Zététique (OZ)	2003[18]	France	Based in Grenoble, France. Member of ECSO.[3]

See also[edit]

• Humanism
• Lists about skepticism
• List of books about skepticism
• List of secularist organizations
• List of skeptical conferences
• List of skeptical magazines
• List of skeptical podcasts
• List of notable skeptics
• Rationalism

References[edit]

1. Jump up ^ Círculo Escéptico Argentino website
2. Jump up ^ Andy Lewis (3 August 2009). "Dutch Sceptics Have ‘Bogus’ Libel Decision Overturned On Human Rights Grounds". The Quackometer. Retrieved 16 May 2014. 
3. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p} "Skeptics Organisations: ECSO Members". ECSO website. European Council of Skeptical Organisations. 16 March 2008. Retrieved 19 July 2014. 
4. Jump up ^ History of CASS
5. Jump up ^ Its full name, Comité Belge pour l'Investigation Scientifique des Phénomènes Réputés Paranormaux ("Belgian Committee for Scientific Investigation of Purported Paranormal Phenomena"), is rarely used, except to indicate it inspired the name of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) three decades later.
6. Jump up ^ Jean-Pierre Thomas. "Notre histoire". Website AFIS (in French). AFIS. Retrieved 3 April 2015. 
7. Jump up ^ Skeptica website
8. Jump up ^ Also translated as Association of Independent Danish Skeptics by ECSO and CSI.
9. Jump up ^ CSI – Association of Independent Danish Skeptics
10. Jump up ^ The full name is "New Zealand Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal", but this name is rarely used in practice.
11. Jump up ^ Tomasz Witkowski & Maciej Zatonski (18 November 2011). "The Inception of the Polish Sceptics Club". CSI website. Retrieved 18 July 2014. 
12. Jump up ^ KSP website
13. Jump up ^ ARP-SAPC website
14. Jump up ^ The letters 'SKEPP' stand for Studiekring voor de Kritische Evaluatie van Pseudowetenschap en het Paranormale ("Study Circle for the Critical Evaluation of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal"), but in practice only the abbreviation is used.
15. Jump up ^ (Norwegian) Skepsis Norge
16. Jump up ^ Saunders, Richard (23 March 2014). "The Skeptic Zone #283 - 23.March.2014". The Skeptic Zone. Episode 283. Australian Skeptics. Retrieved 19 July 2014. 
17. Jump up ^ Алфёров, Кирилл (April 2014). "Выпуск 041". "Скептик" podcast. Общество скептиков. Retrieved 1 March 2015. 
18. Jump up ^ "FAQ". OZ website. Observatoire Zététique. Retrieved 27 March 2015. 

External links[edit]

• CSI – International Network of Skeptical Organizations
• Somewhere To Think – Introduction portal to several thought-provoking groups around Australia and New Zealand

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