Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 28/01/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_Skeptical_Inquiry


00:01:07 1 History
00:03:59 2 Mission statement
00:05:45 2.1 Name
00:07:23 3 Activities
00:08:13 3.1 Standard
00:08:57 3.2 Publications
00:09:47 3.3 Conferences
00:10:47 3.4 Response to mass media
00:13:17 3.5 Following pseudoscientific and paranormal belief trends
00:14:25 3.6 Health and safety
00:15:17 4 Organization
00:15:26 4.1 Umbrella organization
00:16:11 4.2 Independent Investigation Group
00:17:06 5 Awards
00:17:15 5.1 In Praise of Reason Award
00:17:46 5.2 Candle Awards
00:19:09 5.3 Robert P. Balles Prize
00:19:57 5.4 Responsibility in Journalism Award
00:20:41 5.5 Frontiers of Science and Technology Award
00:20:51 5.6 Public Education in Science Award
00:21:11 5.7 Distinguished Skeptic Award
00:21:20 5.8 Founder Award
00:21:55 5.9 The Martin Gardner Lifetime Achievement Award
00:22:24 5.10 The Isaac Asimov Award
00:22:52 5.11 The Pantheon of Skeptics
00:23:24 6 List of CSI fellows (past and present)
00:23:46 7 List of scientific and technical consultants (past and present)
00:24:06 8 Controversy and criticism
00:25:19 8.1 Mars effect, 1975
00:26:53 8.2 Church of Scientology 1977
00:27:39 8.3 Natasha Demkina, 2004
00:29:29 8.4 General criticism and reply
00:31:17 9 See also



Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.

Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain

Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.

Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:
https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91
Other Wikipedia audio articles at:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts
Upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts
Speaking Rate: 0.8329020153383606
Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-C


"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
- Socrates


SUMMARY
=======
The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), formerly known as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), is a program within the transnational American non-profit educational organization Center for Inquiry (CFI), which seeks to "promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims." Paul Kurtz proposed the establishment of CSICOP in 1976 as an independent non-profit organization (before merging with CFI as one of its programs in 2015), to counter what he regarded as an uncritical acceptance of, and support for, paranormal claims by both the media and society in general. Its philosophical position is one of scientific skepticism. CSI's fellows have included notable scientists, Nobel laureates, philosophers, psychologists, educators and authors. It is headquartered in Amherst, New York.