European Council of Skeptical Organizations

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European Council of Skeptical Organizations
(ECSO)
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purpose Coordination between organizations and people in the skeptic movement
Chair: Claire Klingenberg
Establishment date: 1994
Seat : Roßdorf (near Darmstadt)
Website: ecso.org

The European Council of Skeptical Organizations (ECSO) is an umbrella organization for European organizations of the skeptical movement .

Goals and Topics

Since its inception on September 25, 1994, ECSO has endeavored to coordinate European organizations and individuals who critically examine pseudoscientific statements and allegations regarding the observation of paranormal phenomena in order to make the results available to the public. The association intends to continue the skeptics conferences in Europe that preceded its foundation. It also supports specialist conferences and biennial congresses every two years.

structure

Board

The board in Wroclaw during the European Skeptics Congress (ESC) in September 2017. In the
back: de Jong, De Gobbi, Böckman, Sarma, Pintér.
Front: Heap, Trachet, Klingenberg, Korteweg (from left to right).

Cornelis de Jager was the first chairman until 2001. Amardeo Sarma was the chairman of ECSO from 2001 to 2013, Gábor Hraskó headed ECSO from 2013 to 2017. Since September 2017, the ECSO board has been composed as follows, with Claire Klingenberg as chairwoman:

  • Tim Trachet (SKEPP)
  • Amardeo Sarma ( GWUP )
  • Paola De Gobbi (CICAP)
  • Pontus Böckman (VoF)
  • Catherine de Jong (VtdK)
  • Leon Korteweg (DVG)
  • Michael Heap (ASKE)
  • András Gábor Pintér (SzT)
  • Claire Klingenberg (Sisyfos)

Member organizations

Surname translation abbreviation founding Regional jurisdiction Remarks
Alternatively a Racional a las Pseudociencias - Sociedad para el Avance del Pensamiento Crítico Rational Alternative to Pseudoscience - Society for the Advancement of Critical Thinking ARP-SAPC 1986 SpainSpain Spain Founding member.
Association for Skeptical Inquiry Association for Skeptical Investigation ASKE 1997 United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Association française pour l'information scientifique French Association for Scientific Information AFIS 1968 FranceFrance France Member since 2001.
Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sulle Pseudoscienze Italian Committee for the Study of Pseudoscientific Claims CICAP 1989 ItalyItaly Italy
Comité belge pour l'Analyse Critique des Parasciences Belgian Committee for the Critical Analysis of Parasciences Committee Para 1949 BelgiumBelgium Belgium Responsible for the Walloon Region and Brussels . Founding member.
Círculo Escéptico Skeptical circle CE 2006 SpainSpain Spain
Föreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning Science and Public Awareness / Swedish Skeptics Association VoF 1982 SwedenSweden Sweden
Society for the Scientific Study of Parasciences GWUP 1987 German-Language-Flag.svg TOP, ROOF Based in Roßdorf (near Darmstadt) . Founding member.
Irish Skeptics Society Irish Skeptics Society ISS 2002 IrelandIreland Ireland
Observatoire Zététique Zetetic observer OZ 2003 FranceFrance France
Skepticism ry skepticism skepticism 1987 FinlandFinland Finland
Skeptiker Schweiz - Association for Critical Thinking Skeptics 2012 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Stichting skepticism skepticism 1987 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands Founding member.
Study ring voor de Kritische Evaluatie van Pseudowetenschap en het Paranormale Study group for the critical evaluation of pseudoscience and the paranormal SKEPP 1990 BelgiumBelgium Belgium Responsible for Flanders and Brussels . Founding member.
Szkeptikus Társaság Hungarian Skeptics Society SzT 2006 HungaryHungary Hungary
Vereniging against de Kwakzalverij Association against quackery VtdK 1881 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands Not a formal member yet.
Český klub skeptiků Sisyfos Czech skeptics club Sisyfos Sisyfos 1995 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic

Furthermore, the American, but internationally active Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI, formerly CSICOP), whose founder and long-time chairman Paul Kurtz was actively involved in the establishment, especially because the Skeptical Inquirer has many subscribers in Europe. The Israel Skeptics Society is also an associated member of the ECSO.

European Skeptics Congress

Speaker at the 14th European Skeptics Congress in Budapest 2010
Meeting of the representatives of the ECSO member organizations at the 16th European Skeptics Congress 2015 in London

The European Skeptics Congresses (ESCs), in which skeptical organizations from many different European countries participate, have been held since 1989. The conferences often take place in September and last between two and four days. The ECSO was formed during the sixth ESC on September 25, 1994 in Ostend , Belgium . Since it was founded, the ECSO has coordinated the ESCs, which take place every second year and are carried out by a member organization. Past ESCs were:

event date city country
1st European Skeptics Congress 5th-7th May 1989 Bad Tölz West Germany
2nd European Skeptics Congress 10-11 August 1990 Brussels Belgium
3rd European Skeptics Congress 4th to 5th October 1991 Amsterdam Netherlands
4th European Skeptics Congress 17th-19th July 1992 Saint Vincent Italy
5th European Skeptics Congress 29.-31. August 1993 Keele United Kingdom
6th European Skeptics Congress 23-25 September 1994 East End Belgium
7th European Skeptics Congress 4th-7th May 1995 Rossdorf Germany
8th European Skeptics Congress 4th-7th September 1997 A Coruña Spain
9th European Skeptics Congress 17th-19th September 1999 Maastricht Netherlands
10th European Skeptics Congress 7th-9th September 2001 Prague Czech Republic
11th European Skeptics Congress 5th-7th September 2003 London United Kingdom
12th European Skeptics Congress 13-16 October 2005 Brussels Belgium
13th European Skeptics Congress 7th-9th September 2007 Dublin Ireland
14th European Skeptics Congress 17th-19th September 2010 Budapest Hungary
15th European Skeptics Congress 22-25 August 2013 Stockholm Sweden
16th European Skeptics Congress 10-13 September 2015 London United Kingdom
17th European Skeptics Congress 22.-24. September 2017 Wroclaw Poland
18th European Skeptics Congresses August 30th - September 1st, 2019 Ghent Belgium

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e ECSO: Skeptics in Europe - About . ECSO website. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
  2. ↑ Earlier European skeptic events . HSS website. Retrieved May 21, 2014.
  3. ↑ ARP-SAPC website
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Kees de Jager: Een Europese Skeptische organisatie . In: Stichting Skepsis (Ed.): Skepter . 7, No. 4, December 1994, p. 11.
  5. ^ Jean-Pierre Thomas: Notre histoire . In: AFIS website . AFIS. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
  6. ^ Mike Heap: From the Chairman: The 10th European Skeptics Congress . In: Skeptical Adversaria . Association for Skeptical Inquiry. June 2002. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  7. ↑ http://www.vof.se/about
  8. ↑ FAQ . In: OZ website . Observatoire Zététique. Retrieved November 18, 2014.
  9. ↑ Gregor Schenker: We skeptics are not complainers . In: Tages-Anzeiger , Tamedia , March 24, 2014. Retrieved October 5, 2014. 
  10. ↑ VtdK is formally not yet a member, but there is close cooperation with ECSO and chairwoman Catherine de Jong is already a member of the supervisory board for ECSO.
  11. ↑ Skeptics Organizations: ECSO Members . In: ECSO website . European Council of Skeptical Organizations. March 16, 2008. Archived from the original on September 27, 2014. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
  12. ↑ Martin Mahner: 10th European Skeptics Congress… . Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  13. ↑ [ https://web.archive.org/web/20140528011306/http://alpha.uhasselt.be/%7Egjb/esc2005/ 12th European Skeptics Congress Pseudoscience, alternative medicine and the Media Brussels, Belgium, October 13-16 , 2005] . Archived from the original on May 28, 2014. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  14. ^ 13th Congress of the European Council of Skeptical Organizations (ECSO) . Archived from the original on April 19, 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  15. ^ Kendrick Frazier: Three Days of Science and Skepticism in Stockholm . Archived from the original on September 13, 2018. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  16. ↑ 15th European Skeptics Congress, 23-25 ​​August 2013, Stockholm, Sweden . Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  17. ↑ ESCape to Clarity in 2015! . Archived from the original on October 19, 2019. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  18. ↑ euroskepticscon . Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  19. ↑ The Joy of Skepticism . Archived from the original on February 23, 2020. Retrieved on February 23, 2020.