Stichting Skepsis
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| Founded | 1987 | ||
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| Type | Non-profit organization | ||
| Focus | Scientific skepticism | ||
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Area served
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Netherlands, Belgium | ||
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Members
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c. 2500 | ||
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Chairman
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Frank Israel | ||
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Stichting Skepsis is a Dutch organisation dedicated to the promotion and practice of scientific skepticism. It is a member of the European Council of Skeptical Organisations (ECSO).
Since 1988 the organisation publishes a journal titled Skepter twice a year, currently edited by Hans van Maanen. Skepsis also maintains the Skepsis Blog and the website Klopt Dat Wel? ("Is That Right?") that critically examines news stories and dubious practices, and hosts an annual conference. In 2011 it participated in the 10:23 Campaign with skeptics around the world.
The organisation's annual conference, called the Skepsis Congres, was held in Amersfoort in 1987–2001, in Amsterdam in 2002 and has been held in Utrecht ever since 2003. Each conference has a special theme that most or all lectures are about.
Skepsis is an independent nonprofit organisation that consists of volunteers and expert authors, that earn a modest honorarium for writing in its semi-annual magazine Skepter. The expenses are covered by the contributions of subcribers to Skepter and of donators. Its first chairman from 1987 to 1998 was astronomer Cornelis de Jager, who was also the first chairman of the European Council of Skeptical Organisations from 1994 to 2001.
Current composition:
Current composition:
The foundation has played a part in several high profile controversies.
Late 2005, Stichting Skepsis took on Robbert van den Broeke, a self-proclaimed psychic with numerous appearances on Dutch television. In an episode of his television show Er is zo veel meer (with Irene Moors) he did a reading for a woman. During the conversation he claimed knowledge of the woman's supposed past lives, telling her that she had been a certain "Hillegien Rozeboom" in an earlier life and that her husband was a "genverbrander".
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