Society for the Scientific Study of Parasciences

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Society for the Scientific Study of Parasciences
(GWUP)
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purpose Popular education and consumer protection
Chair: Amardeo Sarma
Establishment date: October 11, 1987
Number of members: 1700
Seat : Roßdorf (near Darmstadt)
Website: www.gwup.org

The Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences (GWUP) is an organization of the skeptics movement founded in Germany in 1987 with its seat in Roßdorf (near Darmstadt) . The GWUP is a registered association in Germany and recognized as a non-profit organization. The more than 1700 members (as of 2019) are, according to their own statements, scientists or scientifically interested lay people. Once a year, the GWUP organizes a conference with a changing focus. The chairman of the GWUP is Amardeo Sarma .

Goals and Topics

The GWUP sees its main task in the critical examination of theories and claims from areas such as conspiracy theories , parasciences , esotericism , superstition and alternative medicine . She strives for education in terms of popular education and consumer protection . The GWUP emphasizes the importance of scientific procedures and critical thinking for social challenges. In addition to a theoretical discussion, individual people such as dowsers , telekinetics , "energizers", alternative therapists and astrologers are criticized and their skills are empirically tested.

The declared aim is to promote science and its methods. Scientific methods should be disseminated, made understandable and applied to parasciences, pseudosciences and related systems of belief. This also includes informing the public of the current state of scientific knowledge regarding para-scientific claims.

Topics with which the GWUP is increasingly concerned are health , complementary and alternative medicine, especially homeopathy . Critical attention is particularly appropriate in the health sector, because more effective therapies are omitted due to belief in unproven connections. In addition, there is the confrontation with occultism , spiritualism , esotericism or ideologies , as they are e.g. B. the basis of anthroposophy ; Furthermore, topics from the areas of religion and belief as well as superstition and creationism are considered. As part of an annual forecast check , the focus is on astrology , prophecies and predictions . Further subject areas are conspiracy theories , paratechnologies, alternative medicine , psychotechnics , pre-astronautics , UFOs , but also individual issues such as the Turin Shroud , NLP , alternative practitioners .

In Germany, society is also involved in school politics. In 2012, for example, she protested against a school trial in Hamburg in which elements from Waldorf education were to be used. The open letter of the GWUP Science Council demanded "instead of esoteric teaching without ifs and buts, an enlightened, modern and scientific worldview should be at the center of school education." In 2016, the GWUP-supported initiative Information Network Homeopathy (INH), in which homeopathy Organize critics.

organization

The headquarters of the GWUP in Roßdorf near Darmstadt

The association was founded in 1987 in Bonn. It is a registered association with its headquarters in Roßdorf near Darmstadt, which is recognized as a non-profit organization in Germany because of the promotion of popular education. The chairman is Amardeo Sarma. According to its own statements, the GWUP is the oldest and largest skeptic organization in German-speaking countries and sees itself as part of the international skeptic movement. The GWUP names the informal working group of skeptics for the investigation of pseudosciences and the occult (ASUPO) and the German Society for Combating Kurpfuschertums, founded in 1903, as predecessor organizations .

The scientific advisory board, known as the "Wissenschaftsrat", advises the association and is interdisciplinary. It should ensure the scientific standards of the association's work. To this end, a representative of the Science Council is sent to the GWUP board. There is no connection with the Science Council .

In Roßdorf, the GWUP maintains the Center for Science and Critical Thinking , which is headed full-time by Martin Mahner . Among other things, inquiries from journalists and interested parties are answered there. It was established in 1999. Around 200 people receive individual advice each year. There is also a reference library in Roßdorf.

There are several regional GWUP groups in Germany and Austria. They are based in Berlin , Essen (for the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region ), Hamburg , Cologne , Munich , Stuttgart , Würzburg , Vienna and Untersberg (for the Salzburg / Freilassing region ). The Vienna Regional Group appears in public as a society for critical thinking .

Bernd Harder was a long-time member of the board, is press spokesman and responsible for the blog of the GWUP.

structure

Board

the 2019 board members are:

  • Amardeo Sarma , chairman
  • Stephanie Dreyfürst, deputy chairwoman
  • Rouven Schäfer, deputy chairman
  • Ralf Neugebauer, assessor
  • Claudia Preis, assessor
  • Carl Heinz Roß, assessor
  • Nikil Mukerji , representative of the Science Council on the GWUP board
  • Oliver Demmert, treasurer
  • Susanne Aust, assessor

Science Council of the GWUP

The 2019 Science Council has the following members:

Other members of the Science Council were in the past:

The "Fellows" of the GWUP (selection)

The "Fellows" represent a selection of personalities from the skeptic movement, whom the GWUP names in the journal Skeptiker :

Other well-known members (selection)

activities

SkepKon ​​(conference)

Since 1989, the GWUP has organized an annual conference whose aim, among other things, is to make the results of the association's work known to the public. In 2011 the motto of this conference was fact and fiction and took place in July in the Natural History Museum and the Technical University in Vienna. In 2012 the GWUP hosted the 6th World Skeptics Congress in Berlin from May 18th to 20th . In 2013 the conference in Cologne took place for the first time under the name SkepKon . In 2014 the SkepKon ​​took place in Munich , 2015 in Frankfurt and 2016 in Hamburg . In 2017 the SkepKon ​​met in Berlin. Cologne was the venue in 2018. The Skeptical lecture series took place for the second time . The speakers included Lydia Benecke, Natalie Grams, Nikil Mukerji and Uwe Kanning . 2019 refereed on the SkepKon in Augsburg , among others Gerd Antes , Florian Aigner and Norbert Aust. At the Skeptical, Tommy Krappweis and his methodology were incorrect! on.

The golden board in front of the head

As part of the public day of the GWUP conference 2011 in Vienna, the satirical negative prize, the Golden Board, was awarded for the first time . The prizewinner was the director Peter-Arthur Straubinger for his film In the Beginning Was Light , a documentary about light food . Straubinger personally accepted the award. In 2012 the award went to Harald Walach . Erich von Däniken received the prize for “Lifetime Achievement” . The prize is awarded annually in Vienna. In 2013 Homeopaths Without Borders won the award, in 2014 Xavier Naidoo won . The lifetime achievement award went to Jochen Kopp ( Kopp Verlag ). In 2015 Stefan Lanka won the Golden Board in front of the head. The lifetime achievement award went to Matthias Rath . In 2016 Ryke Geerd Hamer received the award. In 2017 the board went to a figurehead of the Reich Citizens Movement , Peter Fitzek . The life's work went to the DZVhÄ or, in particular, to the chairwoman Cornelia Bajic . In 2018 the award went to a Viennese hospital.

Psi test

The Center for Science and Critical Thinking of the GWUP

The GWUP has been carrying out so-called psi tests every year since 2004 to check paranormal abilities. Initially, the tests were carried out in coordination with James Randi as part of the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge , and later independently. For the proof of paranormal abilities, a prize money of 10,000 euros is announced. So far nobody has won the prize money (as of 2017). The test procedure is agreed in advance between the candidate and the GWUP. By 2010, around 30 candidates, mostly commuters and dowsers, had taken the psi tests. None of the tests were successful. The psi tests take place in the Biozentrum of the University of Würzburg . In 2013, none of the subjects was able to provide evidence of their paranormal abilities. This test was accompanied by the journalist and psychologist Sebastian Bartoschek with a microphone and camera. In 2014, the Berliner Morgenpost, Welt.de and ZDF reported on the tests. 2015 reports the ARD. In 2016, the tests were accompanied by Bavarian Broadcasting. In 2017, Der Tagesspiegel and Deutschlandfunk reported on the Psi tests. In 2018 the humanistic press service reported. In 2020 they were the subject of an examination question for the matriculation and diploma examinations at higher vocational schools in Austria.

Carl Sagan Prize for journalists

The prize is intended to honor a contribution that provides information from a critical and scientific point of view on a topic from the field of parascience or shows the consequences of parascience-based decisions for the individual / society. Journalists and science communicators are eligible to participate.

List of award winners

  • 2008: The physicist and ex-television presenter Joachim Bublath received the award for his life's work as a journalist.
  • 2017: Science journalists Hristio Boytchev and Claudia Ruby were recognized for their work on pseudomedical cancer therapists (Cancer: The Business with Fear) .
  • 2019: The team of journalists Nicola Kuhrt and Hinnerk Feldwisch-Drentrup from MedWatch received the award for their commitment against dubious healing methods on the Internet.

Forecast check

Since 2002, a review of the astrological prognoses of the past year has been published annually by Michael Kunkel, mathematician and consultant in an insurance company. The forecasts are collected and published on a website. Most of them come from the Internet (approx. 70%), as well as from newspapers, magazines and books. In 2010 approx. 110 forecast texts and websites from over 60 fortune tellers and astrologers were evaluated. In 2014 the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported . In 2015 the FAZ and the Kölner Stadtanzeiger reported. In 2016 the ZEIT reported. In 2018 the Berliner Morgenpost reports

Homeopathy / Action 10:23

The GWUP appears as a critic of homeopathy. In 2005 a collection of signatures was initiated against the special treatment of homeopathy as a healing method in Germany. In 2011, the GWUP took part in the international campaign 10:23 , in which homeopathy critics took larger amounts of highly potent homeopathic drugs in public in order to point out the scientifically unrecognized principles of homeopathy and the scientifically unproven effects of homeopathic drugs.

Skeptics in the Pub

In Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne and Vienna there are regular lectures in a relaxed pub atmosphere on skeptical scientific topics. There are currently over 100 groups worldwide, some of which collaborate with or are organized by the GWUP, and carry out this informal format.

March for Science

The GWUP supported the March for Science with various speakers and media support , among others in Bonn / Cologne (Rouven Schäfer, GWUP board member), Hamburg (Julia Offe, GWUP board member), Frankfurt ( Holm Hümmler ), Heidelberg Natalie Grams and Berlin Amardeo Sarma .

Skeptiker - Journal of Science and Critical Thinking

Articles, reports and interviews are published in the quarterly magazine Skeptiker , published by the company since 1987 . The magazine does not see itself as a club paper, but as a special-interest magazine . The editorial manager is Inge Hüsgen. The skeptic has 2500 subscribers (as of 2017).

GWUP publication series

The following volumes have so far appeared in the series of publications of the Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences :

  1. Irmgard Oepen, Amardeo Sarma (ed.): Para sciences under the microscope . Lit, Münster 1995, ISBN 3-8258-2357-1 . (2nd expanded edition: Lit, 1998)
  2. Irmgard Oepen, Amardeo Sarma (ed.): Paramedicine. Analysis and Comments . Lit, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-89473-721-2 .
  3. Irmgard Oepen, Krista Federspiel, Amardeo Sarma, Jürgen Windeler (eds.): Lexicon of Para sciences. Astrology, esotericism, occultism, paramedicine, parapsychology viewed critically . Lit, Münster 1999, ISBN 3-8258-4277-0 .

Reception in the media

GWUP campaigns are regularly included in the editorial section of German-language mass media. So the PSI tests were the GWUP and the One Million Dollar Challenge 2004 ARD program, among others, in the Quarks & Co presented. Daily newspapers and online media report on topics and backgrounds, especially immediately before and during the conference. GWUP members were repeatedly invited as experts in television programs on topics with which the association is concerned, such as Heinz Oberhummer on "How much irrationality can withstand the science?" In the ServusTV telecast Talk in Hangar 7 , Amardeo Sarma as a guest in the ARD telecast people and Politics on "seers and prophets," Klaus Schmeh the clairvoyant casting in the RTL telecast point 12 or Bernd Harder in the SWR telecast people a week about doomsday 2012th

In 2008 a television documentary about the PSI tests of the GWUP was produced. This was under the title Alles lazy magic !? The supernatural put to the test in German-speaking countries broadcast by several television stations. Bayerischer Rundfunk reports on the PSI tests from 2011 as part of the television program On Site - Die Reportage . The MDR reported on the Psi tests in 2012. In 2014 the GWUP was mentioned as the main critic of the temporarily planned Bachelor in Homeopathy in Traunstein. In 2015 Martin Mahner gave an interview about the activities of the GWUP in the German edition of National Geographic and the Frankfurter Rundschau reported on the Skepkon 2015. In 2016, Der Tagesspiegel reported . In 2016, Spiegel Online reported on the golden board in front of the head. In 2017 the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Der Tagesspiegel and Die Tageszeitung reported on the Skepkon. On the subject of conspiracy theories, the press spokesman of the GWUP, Bernd Harder, was repeatedly interviewed as an expert, including by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau . In the German Bundestag , Harder was a speaker at the conference on online hatred, conspiracy theories and falling trust in the media by the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Opposing positions

The sociologist Edgar Wunder appeared as a critic of the GWUP , himself a former founding member of the association and long-time editor-in-chief of the GWUP magazine Der Skeptiker . In 1999 he complained that the GWUP itself hardly carried out any investigations to prove paranormal phenomena, but "sees itself as a combat group against everything that runs counter to established science."

According to Wunder, a structural feature of the skeptic movement is a discrepancy between claim and reality. For example, many GWUP members would wage a ideological battle without sufficient technical knowledge and would argue selectively and irrelevantly. They are only interested in scientific investigations of parasciences insofar as the results can provide 'cannon fodder' for public campaigns. "

See also

Web links

Commons : GWUP  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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