Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI, formerly known as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, CSICOP[1][2]), is a non-profit organization whose stated goal is "to promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims."[3] In addition, CSI "encourages the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and disseminates factual information about the results of such inquiries to the scientific community and the public".

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Not to be confused with the humorous nutcase website SCEPCOP.
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CSI was founded in 1976 by Paul Kurtz[4][5][6], and its fellows have included many notable scientists, Nobel laureates, philosophers, educators, authors, and celebrities.[7][8][9]

Much of CSI's material is published in its bi-monthly Skeptical Inquirer magazine. SI frequently publishes on Intelligent Design and Creationism.

The CSI is part of the Center for Inquiry and is closely associated with the Council for Secular Humanism.

Membership

Notable members/fellows past and present include the following:

gollark: They have 10nm Ice Lake mobile CPUs, at least.
gollark: They still haven't. So the best thing *shipping* is Ice Lake, which had better IPC but is also on their not-very-good 10nm process and has bad clocks, making it roughly as good as 14nm ones with worse architectures.
gollark: They added more cores, but Intel don't really have much better architectures. Unless they released Tiger Lake. I should check.
gollark: Sandy Bridge was 2011, and Intel is widely regarded as having not really done much since then until pretty recently.
gollark: I mean, I suppose it could maybe make sense if the original one was a bad dual-core and the new one is hexacore and they didn't run it long enough for it to thermally throttle horribly.

References
  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20090815024758/http://www.csicop.org/about/csi.html
  2. https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/its_csi_now_not_csicop
  3. http://www.csicop.org/about/about_csi
  4. http://www.philosophyforlife.org/the-skeptic-movement/
  5. NY Times: The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20080305043319/http://csicop.org/si/2001-07/kurtz.html
  7. Recent examples: CSI: Sixteen Notable Figures in Science and Skepticism - Elected CSI Fellows
  8. CSI: The Pantheon of Skeptics
  9. {https://www.csicop.org/about/csi_fellows_and_staff CSI: CSI Fellows and Staff]
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