
The mission of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry is to promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims. To carry out these objectives the Committee:
The Committee is a program of the Center for Inquiry, a nonprofit educational organization. The Committee was launched in 1976. TheSkeptical Inquirer is its official journal.
Some of the founding members of CSI include scientists, academics, and science writers such asCarl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Philip Klass,Paul Kurtz,Ray Hyman,James Randi,Martin Gardner, Sidney Hook, and others. A list ofCSI fellows is published in every issue ofSkeptical Inquirer magazine.
CSI, encourages careful, rational, critical examination of unusual claims. One of the best guides is a short piece byRay Hyman, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, titled“Proper Criticism”.
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