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This is a '''list of notable organizations that promote or practice [[scientific skepticism]]'''.
This is a '''list of notable organizations that promote or practice [[scientific skepticism]]'''.


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! Name (English / ''local'' (abbreviation)) !! Founded !! Region served !! Notes
! Name (English / ''local'' (abbreviation)) !! Founded !! Region served !! Notes
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| [[Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij|Association against Quackery]] / ''Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij'' (VtdK) || 1881 || {{NLD}} || Oldest skeptical organisation.<ref name="Quackometer">{{Cite news |url=http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/08/dutch-sceptics-have-bogus-libel.html |title=Dutch Sceptics Have 'Bogus' Libel Decision Overturned On Human Rights Grounds |author=Andy Lewis |publisher=The Quackometer |date=3 August 2009 |accessdate=16 May 2014}}</ref> Member of ECSO.{{citation needed|reason=Not sure if VtdK is a member, but their chairwoman Catherine de Jong also serves on the ECSO board.|date=July 2014}}
| [[Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij|Association against Quackery]] / ''Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij'' (VtdK) || 1881 || {{NLD}} || Oldest skeptical organisation.<ref name="Quackometer">{{Cite news |url=http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/08/dutch-sceptics-have-bogus-libel.html |title=Dutch Sceptics Have 'Bogus' Libel Decision Overturned On Human Rights Grounds |author=Andy Lewis |publisher=The Quackometer |date=3 August 2009 |accessdate=16 May 2014}}</ref> Member of [[ECSO]].{{citation needed|reason=Not sure if VtdK is a member, but their chairwoman Catherine de Jong also serves on the ECSO board.|date=July 2014}}
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| [[Association for Skeptical Enquiry]] (ASKE) || 1997 || {{UK}} || Member of ECSO.<ref name="ECSOmembers">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ecso.org/member-org |title=Skeptics Organisations: ECSO Members |work=ECSO website |publisher=[[European Council of Skeptical Organisations]] |date=16 March 2008 |accessdate=19 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140927094904/http://www.ecso.org/member-org |archivedate=27 September 2014 }}</ref>
| [[Association for Skeptical Enquiry]] (ASKE) || 1997 || {{UK}} || Member of [[ECSO]].<ref name="ECSOmembers">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ecso.org/member-org |title=Skeptics Organisations: ECSO Members |work=ECSO website |publisher=[[European Council of Skeptical Organisations]] |date=16 March 2008 |accessdate=19 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140927094904/http://www.ecso.org/member-org |archivedate=27 September 2014 }}</ref>
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| [[Australian Skeptics]] || 1980 || {{AUS}} ||
| [[Australian Skeptics]] || 1980 || {{AUS}} ||
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| Brazilian Society of Skeptics and Rationalists / ''Sociedade Brasileira de Céticos e Racionalistas'' (SBCR) || 2001 || {{BRA}} ||
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| [[Center for Inquiry]] (CFI) || 1991 || [[File:Apollo17earth white.jpg|20px|border]] [[World]] || Global umbrella organisation based in [[Amherst, New York]].
| [[Center for Inquiry]] (CFI) || 1991 || [[File:Apollo17earth white.jpg|20px|border]] [[World]] || Global umbrella organisation based in [[Amherst, New York]].
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| [[Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism]] (CASS) || 2010 || {{CAN}} || Part of [[Centre for Inquiry Canada]].
| [[Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism]] (CASS) || 2010 || {{CAN}} || Part of [[Centre for Inquiry Canada]].
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| [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]] (CSI), formerly Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) || 1976 || {{USA}} || Part of the Center for Inquiry.
| [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]] (CSI), formerly Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) || 1976 || {{USA}} || Part of the [[Center for Inquiry]].
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| [[Comité Para|Committee Para]] / ''Comité Para''<ref>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.</ref> || 1949 || {{BEL}} || Member of ECSO.<ref name="ECSOmembers"/> Serves [[Wallonia]] and [[Brussels]].
| [[Comité Para|Committee Para]] / ''Comité Para''<ref>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.</ref> || 1949 || {{BEL}} || Member of [[ECSO]].<ref name="ECSOmembers"/> Serves [[Wallonia]] and [[Brussels]].
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| [[Czech Skeptics Club Sisyfos]] / ''Český klub skeptiků Sisyfos'' (Sisyfos) || 1995 || {{CZE}} || Member of ECSO.<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
| [[Czech Skeptics Club Sisyfos]] / ''Český klub skeptiků Sisyfos'' (Sisyfos) || 1995 || {{CZE}} || Member of [[ECSO]].<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
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| [[Dakshina Kannada Rationalist Association]] / ''தட்சிண கன்னட பகுத்தறிவாளர் ஒன்றியம்'' (DKRA) || 1976 || {{IND}} || Member of FIRA.
| [[Dakshina Kannada Rationalist Association]] / ''தட்சிண கன்னட பகுத்தறிவாளர் ஒன்றியம்'' (DKRA) || 1976 || {{IND}} || Member of [[Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations|FIRA]].
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| [[De Vrije Gedachte|The Free Thought]] / ''De Vrije Gedachte'' (DVG) || 1856 || {{NLD}} || Focuses on atheism/secular humanism.<ref>"Debunking pseudoscience and other delusions" only became part of the DVG mission statement in 1978.</ref>
| [[De Vrije Gedachte|The Free Thought]] / ''De Vrije Gedachte'' (DVG) || 1856 || {{NLD}} || Focuses on atheism/secular humanism.<ref>"Debunking pseudoscience and other delusions" only became part of the DVG mission statement in 1978.</ref>
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| [[Edinburgh Skeptics|Edinburgh Skeptics Society]] (EdSkeptics) || 2009 || {{UK}} ||
| [[Edinburgh Skeptics|Edinburgh Skeptics Society]] (EdSkeptics) || 2009 || {{UK}} ||
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| [[European Council of Skeptical Organisations]] (ECSO) || 1994 || {{EUR}} || European umbrella organisation, based in [[Roßdorf]], Germany.
| [[European Council of Skeptical Organisations]] (ECSO) || 1994 || {{EUR}} || A European umbrella organization, based in [[Roßdorf]], Germany.
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| [[Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations]] / ''இந்திய பகுத்தறிவாளர் ஒன்றியங்களின் பேரவை'' (FIRA) || 1997 || {{IND}} || Indian umbrella organisation.
| [[Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations]] / ''இந்திய பகுத்தறிவாளர் ஒன்றியங்களின் பேரவை'' ([[Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations|FIRA]]) || 1997 || {{IND}} || Indian umbrella organisation.
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| [[Freedom From Religion Foundation]] (FFRF) || 1978 || {{USA}} || Focuses on state/church separation, nontheism, and atheism.
| [[Freedom From Religion Foundation]] (FFRF) || 1978 || {{USA}} || Focuses on state/church separation, nontheism, and atheism.
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| [[Association française pour l’information scientifique|French Association for Scientific Information]] / ''Association française pour l’information scientifique'' (AFIS) || 1968<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pseudo-sciences.org/spip.php?article23 |title=Notre histoire |author=Jean-Pierre Thomas |work=Website AFIS |publisher=AFIS |accessdate=3 April 2015|language=fr}}</ref> || {{FRA}} || Member of ECSO.<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
| [[Association française pour l’information scientifique|French Association for Scientific Information]] / ''Association française pour l’information scientifique'' (AFIS) || 1968<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pseudo-sciences.org/spip.php?article23 |title=Notre histoire |author=Jean-Pierre Thomas |work=Website AFIS |publisher=AFIS |accessdate=3 April 2015|language=fr}}</ref> || {{FRA}} || Member of [[ECSO]].<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
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| [[Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung des Kurpfuschertums|German Society for Fighting Quackery]] / ''Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung des Kurpfuschertums'' (DGBK) || 1903 || {{GER}} || Dissolved in 1934.
| [[Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung des Kurpfuschertums|German Society for Fighting Quackery]] / ''Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung des Kurpfuschertums'' (DGBK) || 1903 || {{GER}} || Dissolved in 1934.
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| [[Het Denkgelag]] || 2012 || {{BEL}} ||
| [[Het Denkgelag]] || 2012 || {{BEL}} ||
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| [[Hungarian Skeptic Society]] / ''Szkeptikus Társaság'' (HSS) || 2006 || {{HUN}} || Member of ECSO.<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
| [[Hungarian Skeptic Society]] / ''Szkeptikus Társaság'' (HSS) || 2006 || {{HUN}} || Member of [[ECSO]].<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
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| [[Independent Investigations Group]] (IIG) || 2000 || {{USA}} ||
| [[Independent Investigations Group]] (IIG) || 2000 || {{USA}} ||
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| [[Indian CSICOP]] || 19?? || {{IND}} || Affiliated with CSI, member of FIRA.
| [[Indian CSICOP]] || 19?? || {{IND}} || Affiliated with [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry|CSI]], member of [[Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations|FIRA]].
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| [[Indian Rationalist Association]] (IRA) || 1949 || {{IND}} || Member of [[Rationalist International]].
| [[Indian Rationalist Association]] (IRA) || 1949 || {{IND}} || Member of [[Rationalist International]].
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| [[Irish Skeptics Society]] || 2002 || {{IRL}} || Member of ECSO.<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
| [[Irish Skeptics Society]] || 2002 || {{IRL}} || Member of [[ECSO]].<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
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| [[CICAP|Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Pseudosciences]] / ''Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sulle Pseudoscienze'' (CICAP) || 1989 || {{ITA}} || Member of ECSO.<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
| [[CICAP|Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Pseudosciences]] / ''Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sulle Pseudoscienze'' (CICAP) || 1989 || {{ITA}} || Member of [[ECSO]].<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
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| [[James Randi Educational Foundation]] (JREF) || 1996 || {{USA}} ||
| [[James Randi Educational Foundation]] (JREF) || 1996 || {{USA}} ||
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| [[Launceston Skeptics]] || 2010 || {{AUS}} ||
| [[Launceston Skeptics]] || 2010 || {{AUS}} ||
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| [[Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti|Maharashtra Committee for Eradication of Blind Faith]] / ''Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti'' (MANS) || 1989 || {{IND}} || Member of [[Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations|FIRA]].
| Latvian Skeptics Society / ''Latvijas Skeptiskā Biedrība''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://skepticisms.lv/ |title=Par Biedrību |publisher=Latvian Skeptics Society |accessdate=21 January 2018 |language=lv}}</ref> || 2012 || {{LAT}} ||
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| Lithuanian Skeptics Society / ''Lietuvos skeptikų draugija'' (LSD)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.skeptikudraugija.lt/apie-mus/ |title=Apie Mus |author=Urtė Žukauskaitė |work=Lietuvos skeptikų draugija |accessdate=26 September 2017 |language=lt}}</ref> || 2011 || {{LTU}} ||
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| [[Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti|Maharashtra Committee for Eradication of Blind Faith]] / ''Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti'' (MANS) || 1989 || {{IND}} || Member of FIRA.
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| [[Merseyside Skeptics Society]] (MSS) || 2009 || {{UK}} ||
| [[Merseyside Skeptics Society]] (MSS) || 2009 || {{UK}} ||
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| [[MTÜ Eesti Skeptik]] ([[skeptik.ee]]) || 2007 || {{EST}} ||
| [[MTÜ Eesti Skeptik]] ([[skeptik.ee]]) || 2007 || {{EST}} ||
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| Network of Independent Danish Skeptics<ref name="ECSOmembers"/><ref>Also translated as Association of Independent Danish Skeptics by ECSO and CSI.</ref><ref>[http://www.csicop.org/resources/organizations/association_of_independent_danish_skeptics/ CSI – Association of Independent Danish Skeptics]</ref> / ''Skeptica'' || 1997 || {{DEN}} ||
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| [[New England Skeptical Society]] (NESS) || 1996 || {{USA}} || Fusion of three earlier organisations.
| [[New England Skeptical Society]] (NESS) || 1996 || {{USA}} || Fusion of three earlier organisations.
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| [[Office for Science and Society]] (OSS) || 1999 || {{CAN}} || [[McGill University]], [[Montreal]].
| [[Office for Science and Society]] (OSS) || 1999 || {{CAN}} || [[McGill University]], [[Montreal]].
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| [http://www.phact.org Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking] (PhACT) || 1994 || {{USA}} ||
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| [[Philippine Atheists and Agnostics Society]] (PATAS) || 2011 || {{PHL}} ||
| [[Philippine Atheists and Agnostics Society]] (PATAS) || 2011 || {{PHL}} ||
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| [[COMCEPT|Portuguese Skeptical Community]] / ''Comunidade Céptica Portuguesa'' (COMCEPT) || 2012 || {{POR}} ||
| [[COMCEPT|Portuguese Skeptical Community]] / ''Comunidade Céptica Portuguesa'' (COMCEPT) || 2012 || {{POR}} ||
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| [[:es:ARP-SAPC|Rational Alternative to Pseudoscience - Society for the Advancement of Critical Thinking]] /<br />''Alternativa Racional a las Pseudociencias - Sociedad para el Avance del Pensamiento Crítico'' (ARP-SAPC) || 1986 || {{ESP}} || Member of ECSO.<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
| [[:es:ARP-SAPC|Rational Alternative to Pseudoscience – Society for the Advancement of Critical Thinking]] /<br />''Alternativa Racional a las Pseudociencias – Sociedad para el Avance del Pensamiento Crítico'' (ARP-SAPC) || 1986 || {{ESP}} || Member of [[ECSO]].<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
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| [[Rationalist Union]] / ''Union Rationaliste'' || 1930 || {{FR}} ||
| [[Rationalist Union]] / ''Union Rationaliste'' || 1930 || {{FR}} ||
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| Rationalist Universe / ''Universo Racionalista'' || 2012 || {{BRA}} ||
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| [[Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science]] (RDFRS) || 2006 || {{flag|UK}} & {{flag|US}} || The American and British branches are independent.
| [[Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science]] (RDFRS) || 2006 || {{flag|UK}} & {{flag|US}} || The American and British branches are independent.
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| [[Societatea Raționalistă Română|Romanian Rationalist Society]] / ''Societatea Raționalistă Română'' (SocRat) || 2013 || {{ROM}} || Member of [[ECSO]].<ref name="ECSOmembersRomania">{{Cite web|url=https://socrat.ro/ |title=ECSO Members Page for SocRat |work=ECSO website |publisher=[[European Council of Skeptical Organisations]] |date=29 September 2016 |accessdate=22 May 2022 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516025547/https://www.ecso.org/organization/societatea-rationalista-romana/ |archivedate=16 May 2021 }}</ref> -->
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| [[Föreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning|Science and Popular Enlightenment]] / ''Föreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning'' (VoF) || 1982 || {{SWE}} || Member of [[ECSO]].<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
| [[Sociedade da Terra Redonda|Round Earth Society]] / ''Sociedade da Terra Redonda'' (STR) || 1999 || {{BRA}} ||
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| [[Föreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning|Science and Popular Enlightenment]] / ''Föreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning'' (VoF) || 1982 || {{SWE}} || Member of ECSO.<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
| [[Science and Rationalists' Association of India]] / ''Bharatiya Bigyan O Yuktibadi Samiti'' || 1985 || {{IND}} || Based in [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]].
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| [[SKEPP]]<ref>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.</ref> || 1990 || {{BEL}} || Member of [[ECSO]].<ref name="ECSOmembers"/> Serves [[Flanders]] and [[Brussels]].
| [[Science and Rationalists' Association of India]] / ''भारतीय विज्ञान युक्ताबादी समिति''|| 1985 || {{IND}} || Based in [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]].
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| [[Skepsis ry]] || 1987 || {{FIN}} || Member of [[ECSO]].<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
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| [[SKEPP]]<ref>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.</ref> || 1990 || {{BEL}} || Member of ECSO.<ref name="ECSOmembers"/> Serves [[Flanders]] and [[Brussels]].
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| [[Skepsis ry]] || 1987 || {{FIN}} || Member of ECSO.<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
| [[Stichting Skepsis|Skepsis Foundation]] / ''Stichting Skepsis'' (Skepsis) || 1987 || {{NLD}} || Member of [[ECSO]].<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
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| [[Stichting Skepsis|Skepsis Foundation]] / ''Stichting Skepsis'' (Skepsis) || 1987 || {{NLD}} || Member of ECSO.<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
| [[Círculo Escéptico|Skeptical Circle]] / ''Círculo Escéptico'' (CE) || 2006 || {{ESP}} || Member of [[ECSO]].<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
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| [[Skeptic Society]] / ''Общество скептиков''<ref>{{Cite episode |url=http://skepticzone.libsyn.com/the-skeptic-zone-283-23march2014 |title=The Skeptic Zone |last=Saunders |first=Richard |authorlink=Richard Saunders (skeptic)|series=[[The Skeptic Zone]] |number=283 |format=podcast |publisher=[[Australian Skeptics]] |date=23 March 2014 |accessdate=19 July 2014}}</ref> || 2013<ref name="#041">{{Cite web |url=https://www.skepticsociety.ru/?s=podcasts_skeptic#041 |title=Выпуск 041 |last=Алфёров |first=Кирилл |work="Скептик" podcast |publisher=Общество скептиков |date=April 2014 |accessdate=1 March 2015}}</ref> || {{RUS}} ||
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| [[Círculo Escéptico|Skeptical Circle]] / ''Círculo Escéptico'' (CE) || 2006 || {{ESP}} || Member of ECSO.<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
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| [[Skeptics in the Pub#Skeptics in the Pub Online|Skeptics in the Pub Online]] || 2020 || {{UK}} / [[World]] ||
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| [[Skeptic Society]] / ''Общество скептиков''<ref>{{Cite episode |url=http://skepticzone.libsyn.com/the-skeptic-zone-283-23march2014 |title=The Skeptic Zone #283 - 23.March.2014 |last=Saunders |first=Richard |authorlink=Richard Saunders (skeptic)|series=[[The Skeptic Zone]] |number=283 |format=podcast |publisher=[[Australian Skeptics]] |date=23 March 2014 |accessdate=19 July 2014}}</ref> || 2013<ref name="#041">{{Cite web |url=https://www.skepticsociety.ru/?s=podcasts_skeptic#041 |title=Выпуск 041 |last=Алфёров |first=Кирилл |work="Скептик" podcast |publisher=Общество скептиков |date=April 2014 |accessdate=1 March 2015}}</ref> || {{RUS}} ||
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| [[Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften|Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences]] / ''Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften'' (GWUP) || 1987 || [[File:German-Language-Flag.svg|24px|border]] [[German-speaking Europe|D-A-CH]] || Based in [[Roßdorf]], Germany. Member of ECSO.<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
| [[Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften|Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences]] / ''Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften'' (GWUP) || 1987 || [[File:German-Language-Flag.svg|24px|border]] [[German-speaking Europe|D-A-CH]] || Based in [[Roßdorf]], Germany. Member of [[ECSO]].<ref name="ECSOmembers"/>
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| [[The Skeptics Society]] || 1992 || {{USA}} || Globally active, but mainly serves [[California]].
| [[The Skeptics Society]] || 1992 || {{USA}} || Globally active, but mainly serves [[California]].
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|[[Young Skeptics]] || 2015 || {{flag|US}} || American after school program.
|[[Young Skeptics]] || 2015 || {{flag|US}} || American after school program.
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| [[Observatoire Zététique|Zetetic Observatory]] / ''Observatoire Zététique'' (OZ) || 2003 || {{FRA}} ||
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| The skeptics of Quebec / ''Les Sceptiques du Québec'' || 1987 || {{QC}} ||
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| AECH / ''Asociación Escéptica de Chil'' || 2010 || {{CHL}} ||
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| APRA / ''Asociación Paraguaya Racionalista'' || 2006 || {{PRY}} ||
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| CEA / ''Círculo Escéptico Argentino'' || ?? || {{ARG}} ||`
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| Asociación Racional Escéptica de Venezuela || 2004 || {{VEN}} ||
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| Skepsis || || {{NOR}} ||
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| EC / ''Escépticos Colombia'' || 2010 || {{COL}} ||
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This is a list of notable organizations that promote or practice scientific skepticism.

Name (English / local (abbreviation)) Founded Region served Notes
Association against Quackery / Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (VtdK) 1881  Netherlands Oldest skeptical organisation.[1] Member of ECSO.[citation needed]
Association for Skeptical Enquiry (ASKE) 1997  United Kingdom Member of ECSO.[2]
Australian Skeptics 1980  Australia
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.
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[3] 1949  Belgium Member of ECSO.[2] Serves Wallonia and Brussels.
Czech Skeptics Club Sisyfos / Český klub skeptiků Sisyfos (Sisyfos) 1995  Czech Republic Member of ECSO.[2]
Dakshina Kannada Rationalist Association / தட்சிண கன்னட பகுத்தறிவாளர் ஒன்றியம் (DKRA) 1976  India Member of FIRA.
The Free Thought / De Vrije Gedachte (DVG) 1856  Netherlands Focuses on atheism/secular humanism.[4]
Edinburgh Skeptics Society (EdSkeptics) 2009  United Kingdom
European Council of Skeptical Organisations (ECSO) 1994  Europe A European umbrella organization, 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[5]  France Member of ECSO.[2]
German Society for Fighting Quackery / Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung des Kurpfuschertums (DGBK) 1903  Germany Dissolved in 1934.
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.[2]
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.[2]
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.[2]
James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) 1996  United States
Launceston Skeptics 2010  Australia
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
New England Skeptical Society (NESS) 1996  United States Fusion of three earlier organisations.
New Mexicans for Science and Reason (NMSR) 1990  United States
New Zealand Skeptics[6] (NZ Skeptics) 1986  New Zealand
Office for Science and Society (OSS) 1999  Canada McGill University, Montreal.
Philippine Atheists and Agnostics Society (PATAS) 2011  Philippines
Polish Skeptics Club / Klub Sceptyków Polskich (KSP)[7][8] 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 (ARP-SAPC)		 1986  Spain Member of ECSO.[2]
Rationalist Union / Union Rationaliste 1930  France
Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (RDFRS) 2006  UK &  US The American and British branches are independent.
Science and Popular Enlightenment / Föreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning (VoF) 1982  Sweden Member of ECSO.[2]
Science and Rationalists' Association of India / Bharatiya Bigyan O Yuktibadi Samiti 1985  India Based in Kolkata, West Bengal.
SKEPP[9] 1990  Belgium Member of ECSO.[2] Serves Flanders and Brussels.
Skepsis ry 1987  Finland Member of ECSO.[2]
Skepsis Foundation / Stichting Skepsis (Skepsis) 1987  Netherlands Member of ECSO.[2]
Skeptical Circle / Círculo Escéptico (CE) 2006  Spain Member of ECSO.[2]
Skeptic Society / Общество скептиков[10] 2013[11]  Russia
Skeptics in the Pub Online 2020  United Kingdom / World
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.[2]
The Skeptics Society 1992  United States Globally active, but mainly serves California.
Young Australian Skeptics (YAS) 2008  Australia
Young Skeptics 2015  US American after school program.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Andy Lewis (3 August 2009). "Dutch Sceptics Have 'Bogus' Libel Decision Overturned On Human Rights Grounds". The Quackometer. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Skeptics Organisations: ECSO Members". ECSO website. European Council of Skeptical Organisations. 16 March 2008. Archived from the original on 27 September 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Debunking pseudoscience and other delusions" only became part of the DVG mission statement in 1978.
  5. ^ Jean-Pierre Thomas. "Notre histoire". Website AFIS (in French). AFIS. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  6. ^ The full name is "New Zealand Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal", but this name is rarely used in practice.
  7. ^ Tomasz Witkowski & Maciej Zatonski (18 November 2011). "The Inception of the Polish Sceptics Club". CSI website. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  8. ^ KSP website
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Saunders, Richard (23 March 2014). "The Skeptic Zone" (podcast). The Skeptic Zone. Episode 283. Australian Skeptics. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
  11. ^ Алфёров, Кирилл (April 2014). "Выпуск 041". "Скептик" podcast. Общество скептиков. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
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