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PAÍSES DE HABLA EN ESPAÑOL
ARGENTINA
. Contactos: Enrique Marquez, correo-e: skeptic@ciu-
dad.com.ar ; Alejandro Borgo, correo-e: haleke@hotmail.com. Dirección:
Jose Marti 35, Dto C, (1406) Buenos Aires Argentina
COLOMBIA. EC. Escépticos Colombia. Contacto: David Galeano.
Correo e-mail: escepticoscolombia@yahoo.com. Página web:
http://www.geocities.com/escepticoscolombia/
COSTA RICA: IPPEC-CR. Iniciativa para la Promoción del
Pensamiento Crítico en Costa Rica
. E-mail: ippeccr@yahoo.com .
Contacto: Víctor Quirós Vargas. E-mail: victorcr@yahoo.com. Web:
http://www.geocities. com/ippeccr/.
MÉXICO: SOMIE. Sociedad Mexicana para la Investigación Escéptica
Presidente: Mario Méndez-Acosta. Apartado Postal 19-546. México 03900, DF.
PERÚ: CIPSI-PERÚ. Centro de Investigaciones de lo Paranormal, lo
Seudocientífico y lo Irracional en el Perú
. Tel.: 51-1-99215741. Director:
Lic. Abraham Paz y Miño. Correo-e.: cipsiperu@yahoo.com. Pag.web:
http://www.geocities.com/cipsiperu/indice.htm
PUERTO RICO: Sociedad de Escépticos de Puerto Rico. Correo-e:
admin@escepticospr.com Web.:http://www.escepticospr.com/.
VENEZUELA: AREV. Asociación Racional Escéptica de Venezuela.
Correo-e: escepticos@cantv.net. Web: http://www.geocities.com/escepti-
cosvenezuela/
EUROPA
European Council of Skeptical Organizations (ECSO)
. Presidente:
Amardeo Sarma. Kirchgasse 4, 64380 Rossdorf, Germany. Fax: +49 6154
695022. Tel.: +49 6154 695023. Correo-e: info@ecso.org. Web:
http://www.ecso.org/
ALEMANIA: Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von
Parawissenschaften e.V. (GWUP)
. Presidente: Amardeo Sarma.
Kirchgasse 4, 64380 Rossdorf, Germany. Tel.: +49-6154695028. Fax: +49-
6154695029. Correo-e.: info@gwup.org. Web: http://www.gwup.org/
BÉLGICA: Committee Para. Presidente: J. Dommanget. Observatoire
Royal de Belgique. Avenue Circulaire 3. B-1180 Bruxells. Tel.: +32 (0)2 373
02 41. Fax.: +32 2(0)2 374 98 22. Correo-e: omer.nys@oma.be. Web:
http://www.comitepara.be. SKEPP. Presidente: Prof. Dr. Gustaaf C.
Cornelis. Academisch Centrum voor Huisartsgeneeskunde, Laarbeeklaan
103. B1090 Brussel. Tel.: 32-2-477 43 11. Fax: 32-2-4774301. Correo-e:
secretariaat@skepp.be. Web: http://www.skepp.be/
ESTONIA: contacto: Indrek Rohtmets. Horisont. Laulupeo 2/Tartu mnt. 63,
Tallinn 10115. Correo-e: indrek@horisont.ee
FINLANDIA: Skepsis. Presidente: Matias Aunola. Secretaría: Anna-Liisa
Räihä. Dirección: Sampo 800011-465 302. PL 483, 00101 HELSINKI. Tel.:
0208-355 455. Web: http://www.skepsis.fi. Correo-e: info@skepsis.fi
FRANCIA: Cercle Zététique. Contacto: Paul-Eric Blanrue. Correo-e: blan-
rue@zetetique.ldh.org Tel .: 06.21.55.15.31. Web: http://www.zeteti-
que.ldh.org/ Comite Francais pour I’Etude des Phenomenes
Paranormaux (CFEPP)
. Claude Benski. Secretario General: Merlin Gerin.
RGE/A2 38050 Grenoble Cedex. Union Rationaliste. Presidente: Hélène
Langevin-Joliot. 14, Rue de l’Ecole Polytechnique. 75005 París. Correo-e:
Union.rationaliste@wanadoo.fr. Web: http://www.union-rationaliste.org/ .
Laboratoire de Zététìque. Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis. Director:
Henri Broch. Dirección: Faculté des Sciences, Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice
cedex 2, France. Correo-e: Broch@unice.fr. Web: www.unice.fr/zetetique.
Association Française pour l’Information Scientifique (AFIS).
Presidente: Jean Bricmont. Web: http://www.pseudo-sciences.org. Correo-
e: administration@pseudo-sciences.org
HUNGRÍA: Hungarian Skeptics. Gyula Bencze. Termeszet Vilaga. PO
Box 25. Budapest 8, 1444. Fax: 011-3611187506.
IRLANDA: Irish Skeptics. Web: http://www.irishskeptics.net/. Correo-e:
contact@irishskeptics.net
ITALIA: Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sul
Paranormale (CICAP)
. Contacto: Massimo Polidoro. CICAP Casella pos-
tale 847 - 35100 Padova. Fax: 049.686870. Correo-e: info@cicap.org.
Web: http://www.cicap.org/index.php
NORUEGA: Skepsis. St Olavsgt. 27, N-0166, Oslo. Web: http://www.skep-
sis.no/. Correo-e: kontakt@skepsis.no
PAÍSES BAJOS: Stichting Skepsis. Secretario: Rob Nanninga. Postbus
2657, 3500 GR Utrecht. Tel.: 050-3129893. Correo-e: skepsis@wxs.nl.
Web: http://www.skepsis.nl/
POLONIA: Biuletyn Sceptyczny Contacto: Adama Pietrasiewicza.
Correo-e: redaktor@iname.com. Web: http://www.amsoft.com.pl/bs-
/index.html.
PORTUGAL: CEPO Contacto: Ludwig Krippahl, Praceta Pero Escobar, N
2 R/c Dto 2675-599 Odivelas Portugal. Correo-e: cepo@interacesso.pt.
Web: http://www.cepo.interacesso.pt/
REINO UNIDO: Association for Skeptical Enquiry (ASKE), P.O. Box 5994
Ripley DE5 3XL.Fax.: +44 114 221 7319. Correo-e.: general@aske.org.uk.
Web: http://www.aske.org.uk/. The Skeptical Inquirer: Representante: Michael
J. Hutchinson. 10 Crescent View. Loughton. Essex 1G10 4PZ. Correo-e.: euro-
pe@csicop.org. ‘The Skeptic Magazine: Editores: Toby Howard y Steve
Donnelly. PO Box 475. Manchester M60 2TH. Correo-e.: toby@ cs.man.ac.uk.
REPÚBLICA CHECA: Czech Club of Skeptics. Presidente: Vaera Nosková.
Ustudánky 18. CZ-17000 Praha 7. Tel.: +420 2 66052660. Fax: +420 2
86585443 (attn. J. Grygar). Correo.e: grygar@fzu.cz. Web:
http://www.sisyfos.cz/
RUSIA: Zdravyi Smysl (Sentido común). Contacto: Valery A. Kuvakin.
Novatorov 18-2-2. Moscú 117421. Web: http://humanism.al.ru/en/magazi-
ne.phtml. Correo-e: gen@maxik.spb.ru
SUECIA: Vetenskap och Folkbildning. Dirección: Sigbladh
Administration, Box 10022. 181 10 Lidingö. Secretario: Hanno Essén.
Tel.:08-612 41 28. Correo-e.: hanno@mech.kth.se. Web: www.folkvett.nu
UCRANIA: Perspective. Director: Oleg G. Bakhtiarov. 3-B Khmelnitskogo
St. 252001. Kiev.
RESTO DEL MUNDO
AUSTRALIA
: Nacional: Australian Skeptics. Web: http://www.skep-
tics.com.au/. Ejecutivo: Barry Williams. PO Box 268. Roseville, NSW 2069.
Tel.: 61-2-94172071. Fax: 61-2-94177930. Correo-e.: contact@-
skeptics.com.au
Regionales: New South Wales. Correo-e : nsw@skeptics.com.au.
Victoria. PO Box 5166AA. Melbourne. VIC 3001. Correo-e: vic@skep-
tics.com.au. South Australia. Correo_e: sa@skeptics.com.au. Canberra.
PO Box 555. Civic Square ACT 2608. Correo-e: act@skeptics.com.au.
Western Australia. Correo_e: wa@skeptics.com.au . Northern Territory.
PO Box 809. Sanderson. NT 0812. Correo-e: nt@skeptics.com.au.
Queensland. PO Box 6454. Fairfield Gardens. QLD 4103. Correo-e:
qld@skeptics.com.au. Queensland (Gold Coast): Correo-e:
goldcoast@skeptics.com.au. Web: http://www.onthenet.com.au/ ~winckle.
Victoria(Gold Fields) : Correo-e: goldfields@skeptics .com.au. Border-
line
(Mitta Mitta, Albury, Wodonga): Correo-e: borderline@skep-
tics.com.au. Hunter Valley Region: (Newcastle). PO Box 166. Waratah.
NSW 2298. Correo-e: hunter@skeptics.com.au. Tasmania: Correo-e:
tas@skeptics.com.au.
BRASIL: Opçao Racional. Luis Gutman. Rua Santa Clara, 431. Bloco 5,
Apt. 803. Copacabana - Río de Janeiro 22041-010. Tel.: 55-21-5482476.
Correo-e: gutman@centroin.com.br. Web: http://www.geocities.com/-
CapeCanaveral/2664/.
CANADÁ: Alberta Skeptics. Secretaria: Heidi Lloyd-Price. PO Box 5571.
Station A. Calgary, Alberta T2H 1X9. Correo-e: abskeptics@hotmail.com.
Web: http://abskeptic.htmlplanet.com/index.htm. British Columbia Skep-
tics
. Contacto: Lee Moller. Correo-e: leemoller@shaw.ca. Web: http://seer-
com.com/bcs/ Manitoba Skeptics. Presidente: John Toews. PO Box 92.
St. Vital. Winnipeg. Manitoba. R2M 4A5. Ontario Skeptics. Eric McMillan.
E-mail: os@skeptics.ca. P.O. Box 53003, 10 Royal Orchard Blvd.,
Thornhill, ON — Canada — L3T 7R9. Web: http://www .skeptics.ca/.
(Ottawa Skeptics. NO ACTIVO). Sceptiques du Quebec. Correo-e:
Info@sceptiques.qc.ca. Web: http://www.sceptiques.qc.ca/.
COREA: Korea PseudoScience Awareness. Contacto: Dr. Gun-Il Kang,
Director, 187-11 Bukahyun-dong, Sudaemun-ku, Seoul 120-190, Korea. E-
mail: dir@kopsa.or.kr, Web: http://www.kopsa.or.kr/
CHINA: China Association for Science and Technology. Contacto:
Shen Zhenyu. Research Center - CAST. PO Box 8113. Beijing. Correo-e:
castint@cast.org.cn. Web:http://www.cast.org.cn/english/index.html Chi-
nese Skeptics Circle
. Contacto: Wu Xianghong. PO Box 4-doctor. Renmin
Univ. Of China, Beijing 100872. Hong Kong Skeptics. Contacto: Rebecca
Bradley. PO Box 1010. Shatin Central Post Office. Shatin, NT.
ESTADOS UNIDOS: Nacionales: Committee for the Scientific
Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)
. Presidente: Paul
Kurtz. PO Box 703. Amherst. NY 14226-0703. Tel.: 716-636-1425. Fax:
716-636-1733. Correo-e.: info@csicop.org. Web:http://www.csicop.org/
Skeptics Society. Director: Michael Shermer. P.O. Box 338. Altadena, CA
91001. Tel.: 626-7943119. Fax: 626-7941301. Correo-e.: skepticmag-
@aol.com. Web: http://www.skeptic.com/Estatales/Regionales: Alabama:
Alabama Skeptics
. Emory Kimbrough, 3550 Watermelon Road. Apt. 28A.
Northport. AL 35476. Tel.: 205-7592624. Skeptics-Freethought of North
Alabama
. Presidente: Richard Rich, 1801 Beech St. SE, Decatur AL,
35601-3511, US. Web: Skeptics-Freethought of North Alabama. Arizona:
Tucson Skeptics Inc
. Presidente: James McGaha. 7049 E. Tangue Verde
Road. Suite 370, Tucson. AZ 85715. Phoenix Skeptics. Presidente: Mi-
chael Stackpole. PO Box 60333. Phoenix. AZ 85082. California: Indepen-
dent Investigations Group (ICC)
. Center for Inquiry-West, 4773
Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027 323-666-9797 ext 156. Web:
www.IIGWest.com. Bay Area Skeptics. Secretaria: Wilma Russell. 17723
Buti Park Court. Castro Valley. CA 94546. Web: http://www.baskeptics.org.
East Bay Skeptics Society. Presidente: Daniel Sabsay. PO Box 20989.
Oakland. CA 94620. Tel.: 510-4200702. Web: http://www.eb-skeptics.org/.
Sacramento Organization for Rational Thinking (SORT). P.O. Box
2215, Carmichael, CA 95609-2215 Sacramento Skeptics Society. Terrv
Sandbek. 3550 Watt Avenue, Suite #3. Sacramento. CA 95821. Tel.: 916-
4883772. Correo-e.: terry@sandbek.com. San Diego Association for
Rational Inquiry (SDARI)
. PO Box 623, La Jolla, CA 92038-0623. Web:
http://sdari.org/. Colorado: Rocky Mountain Skeptics. Presidente: Bela
Scheiber. P.O. Box 4482, Boulder, CO 80306 (303-444-5368). Correo-e:
rms@peakpeak.com. Web: http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/rms/.
Connecticut: New England Skeptical Society . P.O. Box 185526,
Hamden, CT 06518-5526. Web: http://www.theness.com/. D. C. Capital
Area:
National Capital Area Skeptic
. Contacto: D.W. Denman. 8006
Valley Street. Silver Spring. MD 20910. Web: http://www.ncas.org/.
Florida: Tampa Bay Skeptics. P.O. Box 8099, St. Petersburg, FL 33738
(727-209-2902) Correo-e: tbs@cfiflorida.org. Web: http://www .tampabays-
keptics.org/ Georgia: Georgia Skeptics. Presidente: Becky Long. 2277
Winding Woods Dr. Tucker. GA 30084. The Sagan Society of the
University of Georgia
. Presidente: Richard Butler. Correo-e:
rich12@arches.uga.edu. Web: http://www.uga.edu/sagan/. Illinois:
Midwest Committee for Rational Inquiry
. Presidente: Danielle Kafka. PO
Box 2792. Des Plaines. IL 60017-2792. Rational Examination
Association of Lincoln Land (REALL). Presidente: Bob Ladendorf. PO
Box 20302. Springfield. IL 62708. Tel.: 217-525-7554. Web:
http://www.reall.org/. Indiana: Indiana Skeptics. Presidente: Robert
Craig. 5401 Hedgerow Drive. Indianapolis. IN 46226. Iowa: Iowa
Community Science Initiative
. Web: http://www.iowacsi.com. Correo-e:
rob@iowacsi.com . Kentucky: Kentucky Association of Science
Educators and Skeptics (KASES)
. Presidente: Robert A. Baker. 3495
Castleton Way North. Lexington. KY 40502. Lousiana: Baton Rouge Pro-
ponents of Rational Inquiry and Scientific Methods (BR-PRISM)
.
Director: Dick Schroth. 425 Carriage Way. Baton Rouge. LA 70808-4828.
Tel.: 504-766-4747. Massachussets: Skeptical Inquirers of New
England
. Contacto: Laurence Moss, Ho & Moss. 72 Kneeland St. Boston
02111. Michigan: Great Lakes Skeptics. Contacto: Carol Lynn. 1264
Bedford Road. Grosse Pointe Park. MI 84230-1116. Minnesota:
Minnesota Skeptics
. Contacto: Robert W. McCoy. 549 Turnpike Road.
Golden Valley, MN 55416. St. Kloud ESP Teaching Investigation Com-
mittee (SKEPTIC)
. Coordinador: Jerry Mertens. Psychology Department.
St. Cloud State University. St. Cloud. MN 56301. Missouri: Kansas City
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
. Presidente: Verle Muhrer. 2658 East
7th. Kansas City. MO 64124. Gateway Skeptics. Presidente: Steve Best.
6943 Amherst Avenue. University City. MO 63130. Montana: Montana
Rationalists and Skeptics Network
. Web: http://mtrsn.burt-
com.homeip.net/. Correo-e.: mtrsn@burtcom.com. Skeptics Resource
Center
. Contacto: J.J. Kane. 89 Glengarry Dr. Stratham. NH 03885. Tel.:
603-778-6873. New Mexico New Mexicans for Science & Reason. David
E. Thomas P.O. Box 1017, Peralta, NM 87042. Web: http://www.nmsr.org/.
New York: Inquiring Skeptics of Upper New York (ISUNY). Contacto:
Michael Sofka. 8 Providence St. Albany. NY 12203. Tel.: 518-437-1750.
Web: http://www .rpi.edu/~sofkam/ISUNY/. New York Area Skeptics
(NYASk)
. Contacto: Wayne Tytell. 159 Me!rose Avenue. E. Massapequa.
NY 11758. Tel.: 516-798-6902. Web: http://www.nyask.org/. Western New
York Skeptics
. Presidente: Tim Madigan. 3965 Rensch Road. Buffalo. NY
14228. North Carolina: Carolina Skeptics. Contacto: Eric Carlson,
Physics Department, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109.
Tlf.: (336) 758-4994. Correo-e: ecarlson@wfu.edu. Web: http://www.caroli-
naskeptics.org/. Ohio: South Shore Skeptics. PO Box 5083. Cleveland.
Ohio 44101. Contacto: Page Stephens. 4534 Grayton Road. Cleveland.
Ohio 44135. Tel.: 216-676-4859. Correo-e.: hpst@earthlink.net. Web:
http:// home .earthlink.net/~jimkutz/sss/skepticsframeset.html. Associa-
tion for Rational Thought (Cincinnati Area)
. Roy Auerbach. Correo-e.:
raa@one.net. Web: http://www.cincinnatiskeptics.org/. Oregon: Ore-
gonians for Rationality
. Presidente: Josh Reese. 7555 Spring Valley
Road NW. Salem. OR 97304. Tel.: 503-364-6676. Correo-e.:
eseerhsoj@starband.net. Web: http://www.o4r.org/home.htm. Pennsyl-
vania:
Paranormal Investigating Committee of Pittsburgh (PICP)
.
Presidente: Richard Busch. 8209 Thompson Run Road. Pittsburgh. PA
15237. Tel.: 412-366-4663. Philadelphia Association for Critical Thin-
king (PhACT)
. C/O Ray Haupt 639 W. Ellet St. Philadelphia PA 19119.
Web: http://www.phact.org/. Tennessee: Rationalists of East Tennessee
Web: http://www.rationalists.org/. Texas: Houston Association for
Scientific thinking (HAST)
. Contacto: Darrell Kachilla. PO Box 541314.
Houston. TX 77254. North Texas Skeptics. Secretario: John Blanton. PO
Box 111794. Carrollton. TX 75011-1794. Correo-e: jblanton@mind-
spring.com. Washington:The Society for Sensible Explanations. P.O.
Box 24124, Federal Way, WA 98093-1124. Web: http://seattleskeptics.org.
INDIA: Indian Skeptics. Presidente: B. Premanand. Dirección: 11/7
Chettipalayam Road. Podanur 641-023 Tamilnadu INDIA Web:
http://www.indian-skeptic.org/html/index.html. Correo-e: info@indian-skep-
tic.de. Indian Rationalist Association. Contacto: Sanal Edamaruku. 779,
Pocket 5, Mayur Vihar 1. New Delhi 110091. Web: http://www.rationa-listin-
ternational.net/. Correo-e: HQ@indianrationalist.org. Maharashtra
Superstition Eradication Committee
. Contacto: Naredra Dabholkar, 155
Sadashiv Peth, Satara-415 001. Dravidar Kazhagam. Secretario: K. Vee-
ramnani. Periyar Thidal, 50. EVK Sampath Road, Madras-600007. Tamil
Nadu. Web: http://www.dravidarkazhagam.com/. Correo-e: peri-
yar@vsnl.com.
INDONESIA: Indonesian Skeptics Society. Web: http://www.geo-
cities.com/Area51/Dunes/5591. Correo-e: skeptic2000@iname.com
ISRAEL: Israel Skeptics Society. Presidente: Philip Marmaros. Web:
http://www.mindquest.co.il/. Correo-e: pm@mindquest.co.il.
JAPÓN: Japan Anti-Pseudoscience Activities Network. Ryutarou
Minakami, Chairperson, c/o Ohta Publishing Company, Epcot Bld, 22,
Arakicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo. Correo-e: skeptic@e-mail.ne.jp . Japan
Skeptics
. Presidente: Jun Jugaku. Business Center for Academic
Societies Japan. 16-9 Honkomagome 5-chome. Bunkyo-Ku. Tokyo 113.
Correo-e: jugakujn@cc.nao.ac.jp
KAZAJASTÁN: Kazakhastan Commission for Investigation of
Anomalous Phenomena (KCIAP)
. Contacto: Sergey Efimov. Astro-
physical Institute. Kamenskoye Plato. Alma-Ata 480068. Kazakhstan.
Correo-e: efim@afi.academ.alma-ata.su
NUEVA ZELANDA: New Zealand Skeptics. Presidente: Vicki Hyde. Fax:
+64-3-384-5138. PO Box 29-492, Christchurch, New Zealand. Correo-e.:
skeptic@spis.co.nz. Web: http://skeptics.org.nz
SUDÁFRICA: Association for the Rational Investigation of the
Paranormal (ARIP)
. Secretario: Marian Laserson. 4 Wales St.
Sandringham 2192. Socrates. Contacto: Leon Retief. 3 Hoheizen
Crescent, Hoheizen, Bellville 7530. Correo-e.: leon@iafrica.com .
TAIWÁN: Contacto: Tim Holmes. PO Box 195, Tanzu.
RED ESCÉPTICA INTERNACIONAL
Arturo Bosque