List of scientific skepticism organizations


This is a list of notable organizations that promote or practice scientific skepticism.
Name FoundedRegion servedNotes
Association against Quackery / Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij 1881Oldest skeptical organisation. Member of ECSO.
Association for Skeptical Enquiry 1997Member of ECSO.
Australian Skeptics1980
Center for Inquiry 1991 WorldGlobal umbrella organisation based in Amherst, New York.
Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism 2010Part of Centre for Inquiry Canada.
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, formerly Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal 1976Part of the Center for Inquiry.
Committee Para / Comité Para1949Member of ECSO. Serves Wallonia and Brussels.
Czech Skeptics Club Sisyfos / Český klub skeptiků Sisyfos 1995Member of ECSO.
Dakshina Kannada Rationalist Association / தட்சிண கன்னட பகுத்தறிவாளர் ஒன்றியம் 1976Member of FIRA.
The Free Thought / De Vrije Gedachte 1856Focuses on atheism/secular humanism.
Edinburgh Skeptics Society 2009
European Council of Skeptical Organisations 1994A European umbrella organization, based in Roßdorf, Germany.
Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations / இந்திய பகுத்தறிவாளர் ஒன்றியங்களின் பேரவை 1997Indian umbrella organisation.
Freedom From Religion Foundation 1978Focuses on state/church separation, nontheism, and atheism.
French Association for Scientific Information / Association française pour l'information scientifique 1968Member of ECSO.
German Society for Fighting Quackery / Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung des Kurpfuschertums 1903Dissolved in 1934.
Glasgow Skeptics2009
Good Thinking Society2012
Het Denkgelag2012
Hungarian Skeptic Society / Szkeptikus Társaság 2006Member of ECSO.
Independent Investigations Group 2000
Indian CSICOP19??Affiliated with CSI, member of FIRA.
Indian Rationalist Association 1949Member of Rationalist International.
Irish Skeptics Society2002Member of ECSO.
Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Pseudosciences / Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sulle Pseudoscienze 1989Member of ECSO.
James Randi Educational Foundation 1996
Launceston Skeptics2010
Maharashtra Committee for Eradication of Blind Faith / Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti 1989Member of FIRA.
Merseyside Skeptics Society 2009
MTÜ Eesti Skeptik 2007
New England Skeptical Society 1996Fusion of three earlier organisations.
New Mexicans for Science and Reason 1990
New Zealand Skeptics 1986
Office for Science and Society 1999McGill University, Montreal.
Philippine Atheists and Agnostics Society 2011
Polish Skeptics Club / Klub Sceptyków Polskich 2010
Portuguese Skeptical Community / Comunidade Céptica Portuguesa 2012
Rational Alternative to Pseudoscience – Society for the Advancement of Critical Thinking /
Alternativa Racional a las Pseudociencias – Sociedad para el Avance del Pensamiento Crítico 		1986Member of ECSO.
Rationalist Union / Union Rationaliste1930
Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science 2006UK