About: NZ Skeptics

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NZ Skeptics is a New Zealand incorporated society created in 1986, with the aim of promoting critical thinking. The main areas of interest to the NZ Skeptics are claims of psychic abilities, alternative medicine, creationism and other pseudoscientific claims. At its founding in 1986, it was known as the New Zealand Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (NZCSICOP). In 2007 the name was formally changed to NZ Skeptics Incorporated.

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  • NZ Skeptics is a New Zealand incorporated society created in 1986, with the aim of promoting critical thinking. The main areas of interest to the NZ Skeptics are claims of psychic abilities, alternative medicine, creationism and other pseudoscientific claims. At its founding in 1986, it was known as the New Zealand Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (NZCSICOP). In 2007 the name was formally changed to NZ Skeptics Incorporated. (en)
  • NZ Skeptics est une association de Nouvelle-Zélande, constituée en 1986 dans le but de promouvoir la pensée critique. Les Sceptiques de la Nouvelle-Zélande s'intéressent principalement aux capacités psychiques, à la médecine alternative, au créationnisme et à d'autres revendications pseudoscientifiques. Lors de sa fondation en 1986, il était connu sous le nom de Comité néo-zélandais pour l'investigation scientifique des plaintes du paranormal (NZCSICOP). En 2007, le nom a été officiellement changé pour NZ Skeptics Incorporated. (fr)
  • New Zealand Skeptics è un'associazione scettica neozelandese che dispone di una rete di persone neozelandesi comprendente illusionisti, insegnanti, scienziati, operatori sanitari e molti altri da tutti i ceti sociali. I membri hanno una varietà di visioni del mondo, ma sono tutti interessati all'esame obiettivo dei fatti e dei dati scientifici: non danno credito a cose come la capacità psichiche, le pratiche di medicina alternativa, creazionismo ed altre pratiche psudoscientifiche (it)
  • NZ Skeptics är en nyzeeländsk ideell förening som grundades 1986 med syfte att främja . Föreningen granskar pseudovetenskapliga påståenden som homeopati och kreationism. (sv)
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  • New Zealand Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (en)
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  • Incorporated Society, Registered Charity
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  • New Zealand Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (en)
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  • Bernard Howard, David Marks, Denis Dutton, Gordon Hewitt, Jim Woolnough, Kerry Chamberlain, Ray Carr (en)
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  • Craig Shearer (en)
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  • Chairperson (en)
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  • Committee (en)
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  • NZ Skeptics (en)
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  • Incorporated Society, Registered Charity (en)
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  • The New Zealand Skeptics Society supports the scientific consensus on Climate Change. There is an abundance of evidence demonstrating global mean temperatures are rising, and that humans have had a considerable impact on the natural rate of change. The Society will adjust its position with the scientific consensus. (en)
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  • NZ Skeptics is a New Zealand incorporated society created in 1986, with the aim of promoting critical thinking. The main areas of interest to the NZ Skeptics are claims of psychic abilities, alternative medicine, creationism and other pseudoscientific claims. At its founding in 1986, it was known as the New Zealand Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (NZCSICOP). In 2007 the name was formally changed to NZ Skeptics Incorporated. (en)
  • NZ Skeptics est une association de Nouvelle-Zélande, constituée en 1986 dans le but de promouvoir la pensée critique. Les Sceptiques de la Nouvelle-Zélande s'intéressent principalement aux capacités psychiques, à la médecine alternative, au créationnisme et à d'autres revendications pseudoscientifiques. Lors de sa fondation en 1986, il était connu sous le nom de Comité néo-zélandais pour l'investigation scientifique des plaintes du paranormal (NZCSICOP). En 2007, le nom a été officiellement changé pour NZ Skeptics Incorporated. (fr)
  • New Zealand Skeptics è un'associazione scettica neozelandese che dispone di una rete di persone neozelandesi comprendente illusionisti, insegnanti, scienziati, operatori sanitari e molti altri da tutti i ceti sociali. I membri hanno una varietà di visioni del mondo, ma sono tutti interessati all'esame obiettivo dei fatti e dei dati scientifici: non danno credito a cose come la capacità psichiche, le pratiche di medicina alternativa, creazionismo ed altre pratiche psudoscientifiche (it)
  • NZ Skeptics är en nyzeeländsk ideell förening som grundades 1986 med syfte att främja . Föreningen granskar pseudovetenskapliga påståenden som homeopati och kreationism. (sv)
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  • NZ Skeptics (fr)
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  • NZ Skeptics (sv)
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