点燃CSICOP的火花

Massimo Polidoro is a writer, lecturer, investigator of the unusual, and cofounder of CICAP the Italian skeptics group. His YouTube channel is at @Massimo Polidoro. The Spark That Started CSICOP Editor’s note: This is the first in a multi- part series of columns from Massimo Po- lidoro in which he recounts stories from the history of the modern skeptical movement. CSICOP at fifty: Who would have thought? Back in 1976, when the birth of the Committee for the Scientific In- vestigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) was announced to the world, it seemed like a bizarre anomaly. America—like much of the world— was saturated with tales of the paranor- mal and claims of pseudoscientists. …