Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

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Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

ORGANIZATION

Formerly the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, renamed in 2006.

Official Website:
http://www.csicop.org/

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Richard Dawkins Biologist 26-Mar-1941 Zoologist and evolutionary biologist

Persi Diaconis Mathematician 31-Jan-1945 Science of random numbers

Ann Druyan Author 13-Jun-1949 Co-wrote Cosmos with husband Carl Sagan

Martin Gardner Mathematician 21-Oct-1914 22-May-2010 Mathematical games, Scientific American

Murray Gell-Mann Physicist 15-Sep-1929 Quarks and strangeness

Douglas Hofstadter Author 15-Feb-1945 Godel, Escher, Bach

Paul Kurtz Philosopher 21-Dec-1925 20-Oct-2012 Pro-skeptic activist

Marvin Minsky Scientist 9-Aug-1927 Father of Artificial Intelligence

Joe Nickell Author 1-Dec-1944 Professional skeptic

Bill Nye TV Personality 27-Nov-1955 Bill Nye the Science Guy

James E. Oberg Historian 7-Nov-1944 Space exploration historian

John Allen Paulos Mathematician 4-Jul-1945 Innumeracy

Steven Pinker Linguist 18-Sep-1954 The Language Instinct

James Randi Magician 7-Aug-1928 The Amazing Randi

Neil deGrasse Tyson Astronomer 5-Oct-1958 Astrophysicist

Marilyn vos Savant Columnist 11-Aug-1946 IQ 228, writes for Parade

Steven Weinberg Physicist 3-May-1933 Electroweak Theory

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