This is a list of notable organizations that promote or practice scientific skepticism.
List Name (English / local (abbreviation)) Founded Region served Notes Association against Quackery / Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (VtdK) 1881 Oldest skeptical organisation. Member of ECSO. Association for Skeptical Enquiry (ASKE) 1997 Member of ECSO. Australian Skeptics 1980 Center for Inquiry (CFI) 1991 World Global umbrella organisation based in Amherst, New York. Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism (CASS) 2010 Part of Centre for Inquiry Canada. Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), formerly Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) 1976 Part of the Center for Inquiry. Committee Para / Comité ParaIts 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. 1949 Member of ECSO. Serves Wallonia and Brussels. Czech Skeptics Club Sisyfos / Český klub skeptiků Sisyfos (Sisyfos) 1995 Member of ECSO. Dakshina Kannada Rationalist Association / தட்சிண கன்னட பகுத்தறிவாளர் ஒன்றியம் (DKRA) 1976 Member of FIRA. The Free Thought / De Vrije Gedachte (DVG) 1856 Focuses on atheism/secular humanism."Debunking pseudoscience and other delusions" only became part of the DVG mission statement in 1978. Edinburgh Skeptics Society (EdSkeptics) 2009 European Council of Skeptical Organisations (ECSO) 1994 A European umbrella organization, based in Roßdorf, Germany. Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations / இந்திய பகுத்தறிவாளர் ஒன்றியங்களின் பேரவை (FIRA) 1997 Indian umbrella organisation. Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) 1978 Focuses on state/church separation, nontheism, and atheism. French Association for Scientific Information / Association française pour l'information scientifique (AFIS) 1968 Member of ECSO. German Society for Fighting Quackery / Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung des Kurpfuschertums (DGBK) 1903 Dissolved in 1934. Glasgow Skeptics 2009 Good Thinking Society 2012 Het Denkgelag 2012 Hungarian Skeptic Society / Szkeptikus Társaság (HSS) 2006 Member of ECSO. Independent Investigations Group (IIG) 2000 Indian CSICOP 19?? Affiliated with CSI, member of FIRA. Indian Rationalist Association (IRA) 1949 Member of Rationalist International. Irish Skeptics Society 2002 Member of ECSO. Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Pseudosciences / Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sulle Pseudoscienze (CICAP) 1989 Member of ECSO. James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) 1996 Launceston Skeptics 2010 Maharashtra Committee for Eradication of Blind Faith / Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS) 1989 Member of FIRA. Merseyside Skeptics Society (MSS) 2009 MTÜ Eesti Skeptik (skeptik.ee) 2007 New England Skeptical Society (NESS) 1996 Fusion of three earlier organisations. New Mexicans for Science and Reason (NMSR) 1990 New Zealand SkepticsThe full name is "New Zealand Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal", but this name is rarely used in practice. (NZ Skeptics) 1986 Office for Science and Society (OSS) 1999 McGill University, Montreal. Philippine Atheists and Agnostics Society (PATAS) 2011 Polish Skeptics Club / Klub Sceptyków Polskich (KSP)KSP website 2010 Portuguese Skeptical Community / Comunidade Céptica Portuguesa (COMCEPT) 2012 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 Member of ECSO. Rationalist Union / Union Rationaliste 1930 Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (RDFRS) 2006 & The American and British branches are independent. Science and Popular Enlightenment / Föreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning (VoF) 1982 Member of ECSO. Science and Rationalists' Association of India / Bharatiya Bigyan O Yuktibadi Samiti 1985 Based in Kolkata, West Bengal. SKEPPThe 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. 1990 Member of ECSO. Serves Flanders and Brussels. Skepsis ry 1987 Member of ECSO. Skepsis Foundation / Stichting Skepsis (Skepsis) 1987 Member of ECSO. Skeptical Circle / Círculo Escéptico (CE) 2006 Member of ECSO. Skeptic Society / Общество скептиков 2013 Skeptics in the Pub Online 2020 / 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. The Skeptics Society 1992 Globally active, but mainly serves California. Young Australian Skeptics (YAS) 2008 Young Skeptics 2015 American after school program.
See also 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
External links CSI – International Network of Skeptical Organizations Somewhere To Think – Introduction portal to several thought-provoking groups around Australia and New Zealand