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|known_for=Founding Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia; investigations of Tyler Henry and other mediums ...an]] skeptical activist and writer, best known as the founder of Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia (GSoW) and for her long-running investigative writing on telev ...

|name=Skepticism |also_known_as=Scientific skepticism, the sceptical movement ...

|type=Scientific skepticism organisation |known_for=Founding organisation of the modern scientific skepticism movement; publisher of Skeptical Inquirer ...

|status=Foundational to scientific and sceptical methodology ...elated [[Scientific Method|scientific method]] and [[Skepticism|scientific skepticism]]. ...

|also_known_as=Skepticism (US spelling); scientific scepticism |origin=Ancient Greek philosophy (Pyrrhonism); modern scientific scepticism traced to the Enlightenment ...

Randi had co-founded the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) in 1976, alongside found ...y individual claim, rather than functioning as a straightforwardly neutral scientific test.<ref name="psi-challenge" /> ...

|genre=Skepticism / Paranormal investigation ...Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions''' is a book by magician and scientific sceptic '''[[James Randi]]''', first published in 1980 by Thomas Y. Crowell ...

...n within its first year over fundamental disagreements about what genuine "scientific investigation" of the paranormal should mean.<ref name="halperin">{{cite we ...ack against what they regarded as an "irrationalist" assault on mainstream scientific thinking; within about a year of CSICOP's founding, Truzzi received a vote ...

|occupation=Stage magician, author, scientific skeptic ...al and pseudoscientific claims. He was a co-founder of [[Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal|CSICOP]] and founder of the [[Jam ...

...f the subject through his long-running ''Mathematical Games'' column for ''Scientific American'', and separately built a parallel reputation as one of the parano From 1956 to 1981, Gardner wrote the ''Mathematical Games'' column for ''Scientific American'', through which he became, by wide consensus, the 20th century's ...

...sity of Oregon, and one of the founding figures of the modern scientific [[skepticism]] movement. Across a career spanning more than six decades, he has been amo Hyman's formal involvement in organised skepticism began through a chance connection to [[Uri Geller]]. In 1973, Department of ...

...is standing as a scientist and public intellectual to the modern organised skepticism movement.<ref name="skepticalinquirer">{{cite web |title=History of CSICOP Asimov was a founding fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) in 1976, alongside [[Pau ...

...r, best known for the television series ''Cosmos'' and for his advocacy of scientific rationality against pseudoscience and the paranormal — most fully articulat == Scientific career == ...

...he Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), formerly the [[Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal]] (CSICOP).<ref name="freeinquiry ...e Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), the word "Scientific" and the organisation's broader framing were partly intended to distinguish ...

...emselves referred to as [[Cryptids]]. Though its practitioners have sought scientific legitimacy since the field's founding, cryptozoology is generally regarded ...s the field's founding document, compiling reports, folklore, and existing scientific literature to argue for the existence of animals unrecognised by formal zoo ...

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