Saturday, May 12, 2007

CSICOP mutation

Part 6: CSICOP No More!
~ Guy Lyon Playfair

CSICOP has ceased to exist, it was announced in the Jan./Feb. 2007 issue of Skeptical Inquirer (SI) in an editorial entitled 'New Directions for Skeptical Inquiry'. It has been replaced by something called 'The Center for Scientific Inquiry' (CSI), the stated aims of which sound virtually identical to those of CSICOP. So why the change?
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For a thorough look at the evolution of CSICOP the entire series of articles offers an enlightening view of who and what CSICOP was:

The Skeptical Observer
A series of articles by Guy Lyon Playfair

Has The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)Lost the 30 Years' War?

Is this REALLY proof that man can see into the future?

Do some of us avoid tragedy by foreseeing it? Some scientists now believe that the brain really CAN predict events before they happen

Professor Dick Bierman's research suggest that ordinary people really do have sixth sense that can help them 'see' the future.

And Bierman is not alone: his findings mirror the data gathered by other scientists and paranormal researchers both here and abroad.