List of skeptical organizations
This is a list of notable organizations that promote or practice scientific skepticism.

List of skeptical organizations

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Table Section Text: This is a list of notable organizations that promote or practice scientific skepticism.

Name (English / local (abbreviation))	Founded	Region served	Notes

Association against Quackery / Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (VtdK)	1881	Netherlands	Oldest skeptical organisation. Member of ECSO.

Association for Skeptical Enquiry (ASKE)	1997	United Kingdom	Member of ECSO.

Australian Skeptics	1980	Australia

Brazilian Society of Skeptics and Rationalists / Sociedade Brasileira de Céticos e Racionalistas (SBCR)	2001	Brazil

Center for Inquiry (CFI)	1991	-	Global umbrella organisation based in Amherst, New York.

Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism (CASS)	2010	Canada	Part of Centre for Inquiry Canada.

Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), formerly Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)	1976	United States	Part of the Center for Inquiry.

Committee Para / Comité Para	1949	Belgium	Member of ECSO. Serves Wallonia and Brussels.

Czech Skeptics Club Sisyfos / Český klub skeptiků Sisyfos (Sisyfos)	1995	Czech Republic	Member of ECSO.

Dakshina Kannada Rationalist Association / தட்சிண கன்னட பகுத்தறிவாளர் ஒன்றியம் (DKRA)	1976	India	Member of FIRA.

The Free Thought / De Vrije Gedachte (DVG)	1856	Netherlands	Focuses on atheism/secular humanism.

Edinburgh Skeptics Society (EdSkeptics)	2009	United Kingdom

European Council of Skeptical Organisations (ECSO)	1994	Europe	European umbrella organisation, based in Roßdorf, Germany.

Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations / இந்திய பகுத்தறிவாளர் ஒன்றியங்களின் பேரவை (FIRA)	1997	India	Indian umbrella organisation.

Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF)	1978	United States	Focuses on state/church separation, nontheism, and atheism.

French Association for Scientific Information / Association française pour l’information scientifique (AFIS)	1968	France	Member of ECSO.

German Society for Fighting Quackery / Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung des Kurpfuschertums (DGBK)	1903	Germany	Dissolved in 1934.

Glasgow Skeptics	2009	United Kingdom

Good Thinking Society	2012	United Kingdom

Het Denkgelag	2012	Belgium

Hungarian Skeptic Society / Szkeptikus Társaság (HSS)	2006	Hungary	Member of ECSO.

Independent Investigations Group (IIG)	2000	United States

Indian CSICOP	19??	India	Affiliated with CSI, member of FIRA.

Indian Rationalist Association (IRA)	1949	India	Member of Rationalist International.

Irish Skeptics Society	2002	Ireland	Member of ECSO.

Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Pseudosciences / Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sulle Pseudoscienze (CICAP)	1989	Italy	Member of ECSO.

James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF)	1996	United States

Launceston Skeptics	2010	Australia

Latvian Skeptics Society / Latvijas Skeptiskā Biedrība	2012	Latvia

Lithuanian Skeptics Society / Lietuvos skeptikų draugija (LSD)	2011	Lithuania

Maharashtra Committee for Eradication of Blind Faith / Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS)	1989	India	Member of FIRA.

Merseyside Skeptics Society (MSS)	2009	United Kingdom

MTÜ Eesti Skeptik (skeptik.ee)	2007	Estonia

Network of Independent Danish Skeptics / Skeptica	1997	Denmark

New England Skeptical Society (NESS)	1996	United States	Fusion of three earlier organisations.

New Mexicans for Science and Reason (NMSR)	1990	United States

New Zealand Skeptics (NZ Skeptics)	1986	New Zealand

Office for Science and Society (OSS)	1999	Canada	McGill University, Montreal

Philippine Atheists and Agnostics Society (PATAS)	2011	Philippines

Polish Skeptics Club / Klub Sceptyków Polskich (KSP)	2010	Poland

Portuguese Skeptical Community / Comunidade Céptica Portuguesa (COMCEPT)	2012	Portugal

Rational Alternative to Pseudoscience - Society for the Advancement of Critical Thinking / Alternativa Racional a las Pseudociencias - Sociedad para el Avance del Pensamiento Crítico (ARP-SAPC)	1986	Spain	Member of ECSO.

Rationalist Universe / Universo Racionalista	2012	Brazil

Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (RDFRS)	2006	UK & US	The American and British branches are independent.

Round Earth Society / Sociedade da Terra Redonda (STR)	1999	Brazil

Science and Popular Enlightenment / Föreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning (VoF)	1982	Sweden	Member of ECSO.

Science and Rationalists' Association of India / Bharatiya Bigyan O Yuktibadi Samiti	1985	India	Based in Kolkata, West Bengal.

SKEPP	1990	Belgium	Member of ECSO. Serves Flanders and Brussels.

Skepsis ry	1987	Finland	Member of ECSO.

Skepsis Foundation / Stichting Skepsis (Skepsis)	1987	Netherlands	Member of ECSO.

Skeptical Circle / Círculo Escéptico (CE)	2006	Spain	Member of ECSO.

Skeptic Society / Общество скептиков	2013	Russia

Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences / Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften (GWUP)	1987	-	Based in Roßdorf, Germany. Member of ECSO.

The Skeptics Society	1992	United States	Globally active, but mainly serves California

Young Australian Skeptics (YAS)	2008	Australia

Young Skeptics	2015	US	The American after school program

Zetetic Observatory / Observatoire Zététique (OZ)	2003	France

The skeptics of Quebec / Les Sceptiques du Québec	1987	Quebec

AECH / Asociación Escéptica de Chil	2010	Chile

APRA / Asociación Paraguaya Racionalista	2006	Paraguay

CEA / Círculo Escéptico Argentino	??	Argentina	`

Asociación Racional Escéptica de Venezuela	2004	Venezuela

Skepsis	Norway

EC / Escépticos Colombia	2010	Colombia

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The Irish Skeptics Society (ISS) is a scientific skeptical organisation in Ireland.

final_sentence: The Irish Skeptics Society (ISS) is a scientific skeptical organisation in Ireland.