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It also promotes science and scientific inquiry, critical thinking, science education, and the use of reason in examining important issues. To carry out these objectives the Committee:</p> <ol> <li>Maintains a network of people interested in critically examining paranormal, fringe science, and other claims, and in contributing to consumer education</li> <li>Prepares bibliographies of published materials that carefully examine such claims</li> <li>Encourages research by objective and impartial inquiry in areas where it is needed</li> <li>Convenes conferences and meetings</li> <li>Publishes articles that examine claims of the paranormal</li> <li>Does not reject claims on a priori grounds, antecedent to inquiry, but examines them # objectively and carefully</li> <li>The Committee is a nonprofit scientific and educational organization, started in 1976. The Skeptical Inquirer is its official journal.</li> </ol> <p>Some of the founding members of <span class="caps">CSI</span> include scientists, academics, and science writers such as Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Philip Klass, Paul Kurtz, Ray Hyman, James Randi, Martin Gardner, Sidney Hook, and others. A list of <span class="caps">CSI</span> fellows is published in every issue of Skeptical Inquirer magazine.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905114607/http://www.csicop.org/about/">Read more on <span class="caps">CSI</span>’s website</a></p> </div> <div id="layout-right"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul id="links"> <li><a href="/web/20150905114607/http://csi-store.myshopify.com/">Home</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-fader"> <div class="container"> <div id="footer-right"> </div> <span id="footer-left"> Copyright © 2015 <a href="/web/20150905114607/http://csi-store.myshopify.com/">CSI Online Store</a>. All Rights Reserved. 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