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US skeptics groups in alphabetical order, further down the page. (This list
includes defunct groups.)
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US skeptics groups ordered by state, at the bottom of the page.
Click on the group's name to go to their home page.
[Back Issues]: On-line back issues of the organisation's newsletter
or magazine (available for download as a complete document). Note that those
listed may not be the organisation's current publication.
[Articles]: Articles, letters and investigative reports written by
members.
[E-list]: Details of how to join the organisation's email list or
MSN or Yahoo! group. (M) indicates the e-list is available to members
only.
[Forum]: Main page of a forum or discussion board maintained by the
organsation for skeptical debate.
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ARGENTINA
Argentina Skeptics [Back
Issues][Articles]
ASALUP [Back
Issues][Articles][E-list]
AUSTRALIA
Australian Skeptics
[Articles]
State Branches:
Canberra [Back
Issues][E-list]
Hunter Valley Region
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Queensland
Queensland (Gold Coast)
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria (Borderline Skeptics)
Victoria (Gold Fields)
Victorian Skeptics [Articles][E-list]
Western Australia
BANGLADESH
Mukto-mona [Articles][Forum]
BELGIUM
Comité Para (ASBL) [Articles]
Studiekring voor Kritische Evaluatie van
Pseudo-wetenschap en het Paranormale (SKEPP) [Articles][Forum]
BRAZIL
Opcao Racional
BULGARIA
Bulgarian Skeptics
CANADA
Alberta Skeptics [E-list]
British Columbia Society for Skeptical
Enquiry (BC Skeptics Society) [Back
Issues]
Manitoba Skeptics
Ontario Skeptics Society for Critical
Inquiry (OSSCI, SKEPTICS.CAnada) [Back
Issues][E-list(M)][Forum]
Ottawa Skeptics (disbanded)
Sceptiques du Quebec [Articles][Forum]
Skeptics Quinte [Forum]
Toronto Skeptical Inquirers (disbanded)
CHINA
China Association for Science and Technology
(English
translation)
Chinese Skeptics Circle
Hong Kong Skeptics
COLUMBIA
Escepticos Columbia [Articles][E-list]
(no apparent update since May '03)
COSTA RICA
Iniciativa para la Promoción
del Pensamiento Crítico (IPPEC-CR) [Articles]
(no apparent update since September 2003)
CZECH REPUBLIC
Czech Skeptics Club Sisyfos (Information
in English)
DENMARK
Association of Independent Danish Skeptics
(Skeptica.dk) [Articles:(1)
(2) (3)][Forum] (English
introduction)
ECUADOR
Prociencia
ESTONIA
Horisont
EUROPE
European Council of Skeptical Organisations
(ECSO)
FINLAND
Skepsis [Articles:(1)
(2)][Forum] (English introduction)
FRANCE
Le Cercle Zetetique [Articles][E-list]
Comite Francais pour l'Etude des Phenomenes Paranormaux
French Association for Scientific
Information (AFIS) [Articles][E-list:(1)
(2)] (English introduction)
AFIS Loire-Atlantique branch [Articles]
l'Union Rationaliste [Articles]
Zetetics Laboratory,
University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis [Articles][E-list] (English
translation) (no indication of last update)
GERMANY
Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung
von Parawissenschaften e.V. (GWUP) [Articles][E-list]
Regional Groups:
Bamburg [Articles]
Berlin
Middle Franconia
Munich
Regensburg
Rhein-Main
Würzburg
HUNGARY
Hungarian Skeptics Group (Tenyeket Tisztelok Tarsasaga, TTT)
INDIA
Dravidar Kazhagam (no recent
update apparent)
Indian Rationalist Association
Indian Skeptics [Articles]
(last update 2000 - organisation is still very much active)
Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan
Samiti (ANS) [Back
Issues][Articles]
IRELAND
Irish Skeptics Society [Back
Issues][Forum]
ITALY
Italian Committee for the Investigation
of Claims on the Paranormal (CICAP) [Articles:(1)
(2)][E-list:(1)
(2) (3)] (English
introduction)
Apulia
Campania
Emilia-Romagna [Articles]
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Lazio [Articles][E-list]
Liguria
Lombardy [Articles][E-list]
Piedmont [E-list]
Sardinia [Articles]
Tuscany
Veneto [Articles]
JAPAN
Japan Anti-Pseudoscientific Activities Network (JAPAN)
Japan Skeptics?
KAZAKHSTAN
Kazakhstan Commission for the Investigation of the Anomalous Phenomena
(KCIAP)
KOREA
Korea PseudoScience Awareness (KoPSA)
MALTA
Society for Investigating the
Credibility of Extraordinary Claims (SICEC) [Articles]
MEXICO
Mexican Association for Skeptical Research (SOMIE)
NETHERLANDS
Dutch Foundation of Skeptics (Stichting
Skepsis) (Information in English)
NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand
Skeptics [Articles][E-list]
NIGERIA
Nigeria Skeptics Society
NORWAY
Norwegian Skeptics (SKEPSIS) [Articles][E-list]
(Information in English)
(no recent update apparent, organisation still active)
PERU
Centro De Investigaciones
de lo Paranormal, lo seudocientifico y lo Irracional en el Peru (CIPSI-PERU)
(last updated in September 2003)
POLAND
Biuletyn Sceptyczny [E-list]
(no apparent update since November 2003)
PORTUGAL
Portuguese Sceptics Association
(CEPO) [Articles][E-list]
(English translation)
(no recent update apparent)
RUSSIA
Russian Skeptics Club [Articles][E-list]
(Information in English)
(no apparent update since November 2003)
SINGAPORE
Singapore Skeptics (last
updated July 2003)
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Society for Advocacy of Critical Thinking (SACT)
SOUTH AFRICA
Association for the Rational Investigation of the Paranormal (ARIP)
South Africa Cape Skeptics (SOCRATES)
South African Free And Critical Thinkers Association (SAFACTA)
SPAIN
Arp - Sociedad para el Avance del Pensamiento
Crítico [Back
Issues][Articles][E-list]
(no indication of last update, organisation still active)
SWEDEN
Vetenskap och Folkbildning
(VoF) [Articles]
TAIWAN
Taiwan Skeptics
UKRAINE
Perspective
UNITED KINGDOM
Association for Skeptical Enquiry (ASKE) [Articles][E-list(M)]
Skeptics in the Pub
(London)
VENEZUELA
La Asociación
Racional Escéptica de Venezuela (AREV) [Articles][E-list]
UNITED STATES and dependents
(in alphabetical order) [Back
to top]
Alabama Skeptics
Association for Rational
Thought (ART, Cincinnati Skeptics) [Back
Issues][Articles][E-list]
Bay Area Skeptics [Back
Issues][Articles]
Baton Rouge Proponents of Rational Inquiry and Scientific Methods (BR-PRISM)
Carolina Skeptics [Back
Issues][Articles][E-list]
Central New York Skeptics (CNY Skeptics) [Articles]
Central Ohioans for
Rational Inquiry (CORI) [Back
Issues][E-list]
Cincinnati Skeptics (Association
for Rational Thought, ART) [Back
Issues][Articles][E-list]
Connecticut Skeptical Society is
now the New England Skeptical Society (NESS)
East Bay Skeptics Society [E-list]
(no recent updates apparent)
Gateway Skeptics
Georgia Skeptics
Great Lakes Skeptics
Houston Association for Scientific Thinking (HAST)
Indiana Skeptics
Inquiring Skeptics of Upper
New York (ISUNY) [Back
Issues] (currently inactive)
Kansas City Committee for Skeptical Enquiry
Kentucky Association of Science Educators and Skeptics (KASES)
Los Angeles Skeptics Society are now the Skeptics
Society
Middle Tennessee Skeptics (MTS)
Midwest Committee for Rational Inquiry
Minnesota Skeptics
Montana Rationalists and Skeptics
Network (MTRSN) (no recent update apparent)
National Capital Area Skeptics
(NCAS) [E-list(M)]
New England Skeptical Society (NESS) [Articles]
New Hampshire Skeptical Resource is
now the New England Skeptical Society (NESS)
New Mexicans for Science and Reason (NMSR) [Articles]
New York Area Skeptics (NYASk)
North Texas Skeptics (NTS) [Back
Issues][Articles:(1)
(2)]
Oregonians for Rationality (O4R) [Articles]
Paranormal Investigating Committee of Pittsburgh (PICP)
Phoenix Skeptics
Philadelphia Association for Critical
Thinking (PhACT) [Articles][E-list][Forum]
Rational Examination Association of Lincoln
Land (REALL) [Back
Issues][Articles]
Rationalists, Empiricists And Skeptics
Of Nebraska (REASON) [E-list]
Rationalists of East Tennessee
(RET) [Back
Issues][Articles:(1)
(2)]
Rocky Mountain Skeptics (RMS) [Articles][E-list]
(last apparent update in July 2003)
Sacramento Organisation
for Rational Thinking (SORT) [Back
Issues]
Sacramento Skeptics Society
San Diego Association for Rational Inquiry
(SDARI) [Back
Issues][Articles][E-list]
Science and
Reason in Hampton Roads (SRHR) [Back
Issues][Articles]
Seattle Skeptics (Society for Sensible
Explanations, SSE) [E-list]
Skeptical Inquirers of New England is
now the New England Skeptical Society (NESS)
Skeptics of Las Vegas (SOLV) [Articles][E-list:(1)
(2)]
Skeptics-Freethought
of North Alabama (no recent update apparent)
Skeptics Resource Center is
now the New England Skeptical Society
St Kloud Extraordinary
Claim Psychic Teaching Investigating Community (SKEPTIC), Prof. J. Mertens
Sociedad De Escepticos du Puerto
Rico [Articles][E-list]
Society for Sensible Explanations
(SSE, Seattle Skeptics) [E-list]
South Shore Skeptics [Back
Issues] (last updated October 2001)
Southern California Skeptics became
the Los Angeles Skeptics Society before developing into the Skeptics
Society
Tampa Bay Skeptics [Articles][E-list]
Tri-Cities Skeptics
Triad Area Skeptics Club is
now the Carolina Skeptics
Tucson Skeptics
Western New York Skeptics
UNITED STATES and dependents
(ordered by state) [Back
to top]
Alabama
Alabama Skeptics
Skeptics-Freethought
of North Alabama (no recent update apparent)
Arizona
Phoenix Skeptics
Tucson Skeptics
California
Bay Area Skeptics [Back
Issues][Articles]
East Bay Skeptics Society [E-list]
(no recent updates apparent)
Sacramento Organisation
for Rational Thinking (SORT) [Back
Issues]
Sacramento Skeptics Society
San Diego Association for Rational Inquiry
(SDARI) [Back
Issues][Articles][E-list]
Colorado
Rocky Mountain Skeptics
(RMS) [Articles][E-list]
(last apparent update in July 2003)
Connecticut
New England Skeptical Society (NESS) [Articles]
D.C./Maryland
National Capital Area Skeptics
(NCAS) [E-list(M)]
Florida
Tampa Bay Skeptics [Articles][E-list]
Georgia
Georgia Skeptics
Illinios
Midwest Committee for Rational Inquiry
Rational Examination Association of
Lincoln Land (REALL) [Back
Issues][Articles]
Indiana
Indiana Skeptics
Kentucky
Kentucky Association of Science Educators and Skeptics (KASES)
Louisiana
Baton Rouge Proponents of Rational Inquiry and Scientific Methods (BR-PRISM)
Michigan
Great Lakes Skeptics
Minnesota
Minnesota Skeptics
St Kloud Extraordinary
Claim Psychic Teaching Investigating Community (SKEPTIC), Prof. J. Mertens
Missouri
Gateway Skeptics
Kansas City Committee for Skeptical Enquiry
Montana
Montana Rationalists and
Skeptics Network (MTRSN) (no recent update apparent)
Nebraska
Rationalists, Empiricists And Skeptics
Of Nebraska (REASON) [E-list]
Nevada
Skeptics of Las Vegas (SOLV) [Articles][E-list:(1)
(2)]
New Mexico
New Mexicans for Science and Reason (NMSR) [Articles]
New York
Central New York Skeptics (CNY
Skeptics) [Articles]
Inquiring Skeptics of
Upper New York (ISUNY) [Back
Issues] (currently inactive)
New York Area Skeptics (NYASk)
Western New York Skeptics
North Carolina
Carolina Skeptics [Back
Issues][Articles][E-list]
Ohio
Central Ohioans for
Rational Inquiry (CORI) [Back
Issues][E-list]
Cincinnati Skeptics (Association
for Rational Thought, ART) [Back
Issues][Articles][E-list]
South Shore Skeptics [Back
Issues] (last updated October 2001)
Oregon
Oregonians for Rationality (O4R) [Articles]
Pennsylvania
Paranormal Investigating Committee of Pittsburgh (PICP)
Philadelphia Association for Critical
Thinking (PhACT) [Articles][E-list][Forum]
Puerto Rico (dependent)
Sociedad De Escepticos du Puerto
Rico [Articles][E-list]
Tennessee
Middle Tennessee Skeptics
(MTS)
Rationalists of East
Tennessee (RET) [Back
Issues][Articles:(1)
(2)]
Tri-Cities Skeptics
Texas
Houston Association for Scientific Thinking (HAST)
North Texas Skeptics (NTS) [Back
Issues][Articles:(1)
(2)]
Virginia
Science and
Reason in Hampton Roads (SRHR) [Back
Issues][Articles]
Washington
Seattle Skeptics (Society for
Sensible Explanations, SSE) [E-list]
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