ARP-SAPC
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| Abbreviation | ARP-SAPC |
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| Formation | 1986 |
| Type | Nonprofit organisation |
| Purpose | Promotion of critical thinking |
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Region served
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Spain |
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President
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Alfonso López Borgoñoz |
| Website | escepticos.es |
Alternativa Racional a las Pseudociencias – Sociedad para el Avance del Pensamiento Crítico or ARP-SAPC for short (English: Rational Alternative to Pseudoscience – Society for the Promotion of Critical Thinking) is a Spanish nonprofit organisation that, according to its bylaws, promotes the use of reason and critical thinking or scientific skepticism regarding what they consider credulity, rejecting and refuting claims of allegedly paranormal events.
The Society was founded with the name Alternativa Racional a las Pseudociencias (lit. Rational Alternative to the Pseudosciences) at the end of 1986 and renamed ARP – Sociedad para el Avance del Pensamiento Crítico (ARP – Society for the Promotion of Critical Thinking) in 1998, constituting the main reference of the skeptical movement in Spain. It is one of the two major skeptical organisations in the country, the other being Círculo Escéptico (founded in 2006). ARP-SAPC is a member of the European Council of Skeptical Organisations (ECSO). Internationally, it collaborates with other associations with similar ideas in the Hispanophone world and on the global level. Amongst its best-known partners are Spanish scientists, science writers and philosophers such as philosopher and ethics treatise writer Fernando Savater, Mario Bunge, philosopher Gustavo Bueno, physicist and science communicator Manuel Toharia, biologist Francisco J. Ayala and Pamplona Planetarium director Javier Armentia.
ARP-SAPC publishes a periodical review titled El Escéptico ("The Skeptic") and a free online bulletin called El Escéptico Digital ("The Digital Skeptic"), in which one can find articles on topics concerning pseudocience, pseudohistory, and science in general.
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