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The Independent Investigations Group (IIG) will be having a lunch gathering at The Amaz!ng Meeting 8 on Sunday, July 11, 2010 from 12:30PM to 2:00PM at the South Point Casino Del Mar Lounge/Del Mar Deli. The IIG and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) have created an IIG Affiliate Program...

As reported from Cryptomundo.

From the commentary I'm not sure that these awards even make sense. TV/movies are, afterall, entertainment. It is not their goal to promote science, for example. So when csicop, or whatever acronym they are going by now, does some report on the inaccuracies in Mothman or whatever, I can only...

The CFI is having its 11th World Congress in Beijing from October 13-15. Speakers include Daniel Dennett and Murray Gell-Mann In an eerie coincidence that is the same time as a five-day long weekend here in Qatar (October 12th to 16th) so I've decided to go to the conference. It's destiny...

Forgive me if I'm going over familiar ground again, but I've been wondering why prominent members of CSICOP haven't been to TAM before. Joe Nickell is one of my favorite skeptical investigators, and I think he would be great for TAM. What does everyone think?

CSICOP is now CSI, to eliminate confusion with Psicop, Bester on Babylon 5.

A friend passed along some information about the CFI Summer Camp for 2007. Unfortunately, also passed along were statements from a really dumb woo forum. These people call the camp "brainwashing" and are screaming "profiteering!" because of the cost. Granted this is coming from a group of...

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I think I deserve the right to kick shanek in the balls right now. This is from the latest CSICOP mailing: Wake Up Call Leading scientists say climate change must finally receive the attention it deserves. True skeptics should agree with them. Chris Mooney http://www.chriscmooney.com...

Where is CSICOP's evidence for the "rising tide of belief in the paranormal"? http://www.csicop.org/si/2001-07/kurtz.html

Albuquerque, details here: http://www.csicop.org/events/conference-2003/