组织怀疑：在CSICOP命名之前

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of columns from Massimo Polidoro as he recounts stories from the history of the mod- ern skeptical movement and the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). efore CSICOP had a name, a B mission, or a public face, it al- ready had a problem. The idea of forming a nonprofit skeptical organization was born in the summer of 1973, as we have seen in my previous column, when James Randi began sharing his thoughts with Mar- tin Gardner and Ray Hyman about the urgent need for a coordinated re- sponse to the growing wave of paranor- mal claims. …