现代怀疑运动五十年

Peek into the first meeting that birthed the modern skeptical movement through the eyes of a scholar who was there. JAMES E. ALCOCK CSICOP meeting in 1976 A half-century ago, a rising tide of pseudoscience and paranormal belief swept the Western world. In re- sponse, a small group of scholars, magicians, science writers, and others—alarmed by the dearth of reaction from the scientific community—banded together to found the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI). This marked the beginning of the modern skeptical movement. …