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| Back to B's | Commitee for the Scientific Investigation of Clams of the Paranormal (CSICOP) - Organization devoted to debunking all claims of the paranormal. CSICOP is the champion of all skeptics and the scourge of believers. Some observers feel the organization goes to excessive lengths to discredit the Paranormal. CSICOP has been described by critics as not a scientific group, but an advocacy group with a strong and hidden religious agenda.
CSICOP, based in Buffalo, New York, began as an offshoot of the American Humanist Association. The impetus was a manifesto against astrology, published in the September-October 1975 issue of the Humanist and signed by 182 scientists, including eighteen Nobel prize winners. The manifesto, "Objections to Astrology," was the idea of the editor of the Humanist at the time, Paul Kurtz, professor of philosophy at the State Universityof New York in Buffalo. |
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