The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is a U.S. nonprofit organization that works to mitigate belief in pseudoscience and the paranormal and to fight the influence of religion in government.
Headquarters of the CFI
Joe Nickell, Research Fellow at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, in office. Amherst, New York, 2013.
IIG "Power Balance" testing exercise
Tom Flynn, editor of Free Inquiry, gives a presentation on the Freethought Trail.
Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. Notable paranormal beliefs include those that pertain to extrasensory perception, spiritualism and the pseudosciences of ghost hunting, cryptozoology, and ufology.
Charles Fort, 1920. Fort is perhaps the most widely known collector of paranormal stories.
James Randi was a well-known investigator of paranormal claims.
Chris French founder of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit.