In The New Inquisition, Robert Anton Wilson, recognized episkopos, pope, and saint of the parody religion Discordianism, lampoons the members of skeptical organizations like the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP — now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ) as fundamentalist materialists, alleging that they dogmatically dismiss any evidence that conflicts with materialism as hallucination or fraud.

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( CSI ), formerly known as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ), is a program within the U. S. non-profit organization Center for Inquiry ( CFI ), whose stated purpose is to " encourage the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and disseminate factual information about the results of such inquiries to the scientific community and the public.

Criticisms of the field were focused in the founding of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( 1976 ), now called the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and its periodical, Skeptical Inquirer.

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, formerly the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ), is an organisation that aims to publicise the scientific, skeptical approach.

Then Professor Marvin Zelen, a statistician and associate of the recently founded Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP, now known as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( CSI )), proposed in a 1976 article in the same periodical that, in order to eliminate any demographic anomaly, Gauquelin randomly pick 100 athletes from his data-set of 2, 088 and check the birth / planet correlations of a sample of babies born at the same times and places in order to establish a control group, giving the base-rate ( chance ) expectation for comparison ( The 100 random athletes later expanded into a subsample of 303 athletes ).

* Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( formerly Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal )

He was a co-founder of the Committee on Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ) and contributed articles to their journal, The Skeptical Inquirer.

* Hidden Messages and The Bible Code from Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, publisher of Skeptical Inquirer Magazine

He is also the founder and past chairman of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( formerly the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP )), the Council for Secular Humanism, and the Center for Inquiry.

To assess the then-growing claims of psychic crime-solving, the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( now Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ) created a " task force " of investigators headed by Joe Nickell, PhD, a former magician, mentalist, and investigator for the world famous Pinkerton Detective Agency.

Partly for this reason, in 1997 the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, then called the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, awarded Aykroyd a " Snuffed Candle " award, for " contributing to the public's lack of understanding of the methods of scientific inquiry.

In Skeptical Inquirer's Naked Skeptic column by Karen Stollznow she discusses RMPRS's investigation of The Stanley Hotel, " During the investigation, The Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society researched popular beliefs and claims ; they solved some mysteries, they performed valuable outreach, and they maintained the historical integrity of the Stanley Hotel.

He presented a paper at a conference on Paranormal and Superstitious Beliefs: A Skeptical Examination at Manchester Metropolitan University on Friday 13 November 1998.

* New England Skeptical Society

* New England Skeptical Society Newsletter Articles-Includes articles on such topics as Homeopathy, Intelligent Design, and other pseudoscientific topics

* Bee Venom Therapy-By Steven Novella MD, President of the New England Skeptical Society

In his personal life, Davis is an avid water-skier, works with the Canadian Cancer Society and lectures on skepticism most recently at Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's CSICON.

In addition, he has been interviewed by representatives of groups promoting scientific skepticism, such as the New England Skeptical Society and Media Man Australia.

In the USA, the most notable of these are, in chronological order, the Center for Inquiry ( 1991 ), The Skeptics Society ( 1992 ), the James Randi Educational Foundation ( 1996 ), and the New England Skeptical Society ( 1996 ).

* New England Skeptical Society ( NESS ), a Skeptical organization

Steven Novella, president of the New England Skeptical Society, criticized The Huffington Post for allowing homeopathy proponent Dana Ullman to have a blog there:

His most famous book in this area is The Skeptical Environmentalist, whose English translation was published as a work in environmental economics by Cambridge University Press in 2001.

The popularity of the term was enhanced by Bjørn Lomborg's book The Skeptical Environmentalist.

This claim was put forth in The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry Into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory, written by the aforementioned William Matthews, a British professor who taught at UCLA ( and is most famous for his transcription of the Diary of Samuel Pepys ).

The Skeptical School of early Chinese history, started by Gu Jiegang in the 1920s, was the first group of scholars within China to seriously question the traditional story of its early history: " the later the time, the longer the legendary period of earlier history ... early Chinese history is a tale told and retold for generations, during which new elements were added to the front end ".

Skeptical at first, Staubach told Smith to spend some time at his company's offices during the spring and summer if he was sincere.

Books VII-XI of Against the Mathematicians form an incomplete whole ; scholars believe that at least one, but possibly as many as five books, are missing from the beginning of the work that was originally entitled Skeptical Treatises ( Skeptika Hupomnēmata ).

Following a no-confidence vote against Truzzi, he resigned, and the magazine was ( starting with volume 2, issue 2 ) retitled Skeptical Inquirer and Kendrick Frazier ( former editor of Science News ) became the new editor.

Skeptical archaeologists see the electrical experiments as embodying a key problem with experimental archaeology, saying that such experiments can only show that something was physically possible, but do not confirm that it actually occurred.

The council was founded by Dr. Paul Kurtz, who also founded CSICOP ( now known as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ) and the Center for Inquiry.

" This improvement of protocols later led James Randi to list a " straight spoon " award to Phillips in a press release of his " bent spoon " awards, but that award was omitted from the list of awards published by Omni magazine and the Skeptical Inquirer ; it was reported in the latter in a subsequent letter to the editor.

The Skeptical Inquirer revealed that Shaw was a fake psychic in their fall 1980 issue.

In February 2011 he was elected as a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

One column, " Skeptical Eye ," attempted to uncover various scams and flim-flam in the popular science world, and was the medium for James Randi to release his Project Alpha results.

The EAI was seen by some as a vehicle created for Lomborg, whose book The Skeptical Environmentalist argues that many perceived environmental problems are vastly exaggerated by environmental lobby and that policy responses based on such exaggerated claims are often misguided.

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry have put forward the suggestion that the initial identification as a Bigfoot cast is problematic, as it was done by a Bigfoot researcher looking for evidence of Bigfoot, while his fellows only concurred after this identification was suggested to them and thereby validating the original identification.

In February 2011 Grossman was elected as a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

* The Skeptical Environmentalist ; Harvey was prominent among the many critics of this book.

Previously obscure, the DCSD became embroiled in controversy after its January 2003 decision that the 2001 book The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjørn Lomborg was " clearly contrary to the standards of good scientific practice ", due to the author's systematically biased choice of data, and objectively was scientifically irredeemable, but Lomborg himself could not be subjectively convicted of intentional or gross negligence.

Kendrick Frazier became the editor of CSICOP's journal and the name was changed to Skeptical Inquirer.

In January 2010 Carroll was elected as a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry