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 === Guerrilla scepticism on Wikipedia ===
-In 2010, [[Susan_Gerbic|Susan Gerbic]] launched the [[GSoW_-_Guerrilla_Skepticism_on_Wikipedia  ''Guerrilla scepticism on Wikipedia'' (GSoW)]], a "project to improve sceptical content on Wikipedia".<ref>http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/wikapediatrician_susan_gerbic_discusses_her_guerrilla_skepticism_on_wikiped; March 8, 2015</ref> In 2017, Gerbic was named a companion of the "Committee for Sceptical Investigation".<ref>http:/wwww.centerforinquiry.net/news/cause_effect_99</ref> You and your GSoW team have received an award from the James Randi Educational Foundation, which is given to "the person or organization that best represents the spirit of the Foundation by promoting critical questions and seeking unbiased, factual answers. We are pleased to recognize Susan's efforts to attract and train a team of editors to continuously improve Wikipedia as a public resource for rationality and scientific thinking."<ref>https://web.randi.org/home/2017-jref-award; accessdate=27 March 2018</ref> (Randi himself is a prominent member of the pseudo-sceptic organization, so the award can be considered an internal commendation.)
+In 2010, [[Susan_Gerbic|Susan Gerbic]] launched the [[GSoW_-_Guerrilla_Skepticism_on_Wikipedia|''Guerrilla scepticism on Wikipedia'' (GSoW)]], a "project to improve sceptical content on Wikipedia".<ref>http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/wikapediatrician_susan_gerbic_discusses_her_guerrilla_skepticism_on_wikiped; March 8, 2015</ref> In 2017, Gerbic was named a companion of the "Committee for Sceptical Investigation".<ref>http:/wwww.centerforinquiry.net/news/cause_effect_99</ref> You and your GSoW team have received an award from the James Randi Educational Foundation, which is given to "the person or organization that best represents the spirit of the Foundation by promoting critical questions and seeking unbiased, factual answers. We are pleased to recognize Susan's efforts to attract and train a team of editors to continuously improve Wikipedia as a public resource for rationality and scientific thinking."<ref>https://web.randi.org/home/2017-jref-award; accessdate=27 March 2018</ref> (Randi himself is a prominent member of the pseudo-sceptic organization, so the award can be considered an internal commendation.)
 In July 2018, Wired magazine reported that the GSoW team had grown to more than 120 volunteer editors from around the world and that they were jointly responsible for "creating or improving some of Wikipedia's best-selling articles on sceptical topics. By July 2018, GSoW has created or completely rewritten more than 630 Wikipedia articles in many languages that have collected over 28 million page views.<ref>https://www.wired.com/story/guerrilla-wikipedia-editors-who-combat-conspiracy-theories/; access-date=July 25, 2018</ref>

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 === Guerrilla scepticism on Wikipedia ===
-In 2010, [[Susan_Gerbic|Susan Gerbic]] launched the ''Guerrilla scepticism on Wikipedia'' (GSoW), a "project to improve sceptical content on Wikipedia".<ref>http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/wikapediatrician_susan_gerbic_discusses_her_guerrilla_skepticism_on_wikiped; March 8, 2015</ref> In 2017, Gerbic was named a companion of the "Committee for Sceptical Investigation".<ref>http:/wwww.centerforinquiry.net/news/cause_effect_99</ref> You and your GSoW team have received an award from the James Randi Educational Foundation, which is given to "the person or organization that best represents the spirit of the Foundation by promoting critical questions and seeking unbiased, factual answers. We are pleased to recognize Susan's efforts to attract and train a team of editors to continuously improve Wikipedia as a public resource for rationality and scientific thinking."<ref>https://web.randi.org/home/2017-jref-award; accessdate=27 March 2018</ref> (Randi himself is a prominent member of the pseudo-sceptic organization, so the award can be considered an internal commendation.)
+In 2010, [[Susan_Gerbic|Susan Gerbic]] launched the [[GSoW_-_Guerrilla_Skepticism_on_Wikipedia  ''Guerrilla scepticism on Wikipedia'' (GSoW)]], a "project to improve sceptical content on Wikipedia".<ref>http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/wikapediatrician_susan_gerbic_discusses_her_guerrilla_skepticism_on_wikiped; March 8, 2015</ref> In 2017, Gerbic was named a companion of the "Committee for Sceptical Investigation".<ref>http:/wwww.centerforinquiry.net/news/cause_effect_99</ref> You and your GSoW team have received an award from the James Randi Educational Foundation, which is given to "the person or organization that best represents the spirit of the Foundation by promoting critical questions and seeking unbiased, factual answers. We are pleased to recognize Susan's efforts to attract and train a team of editors to continuously improve Wikipedia as a public resource for rationality and scientific thinking."<ref>https://web.randi.org/home/2017-jref-award; accessdate=27 March 2018</ref> (Randi himself is a prominent member of the pseudo-sceptic organization, so the award can be considered an internal commendation.)
 In July 2018, Wired magazine reported that the GSoW team had grown to more than 120 volunteer editors from around the world and that they were jointly responsible for "creating or improving some of Wikipedia's best-selling articles on sceptical topics. By July 2018, GSoW has created or completely rewritten more than 630 Wikipedia articles in many languages that have collected over 28 million page views.<ref>https://www.wired.com/story/guerrilla-wikipedia-editors-who-combat-conspiracy-theories/; access-date=July 25, 2018</ref>

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    The following paragraph is quoted from a [http://www.provings.info/blog1_en?post_id=21&title=thoughts-about-„sceptics“-as-self-declared-opponents-of-homeopathy blog entry about fake-skeptics]. It has still to be adapted to an encyclopedic format.

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 == History ==
-{{Wikipedia|Skeptikerbewegung|Skeptikerbewegung|9.8.2018}} The historian Peter Lamont sees the origins of the ''so called "skeptic movement"'' in the controversies surrounding [[Uri_Geller|Uri Geller]] in the 1970s. A group of critics, including several psychologists and magicians, rejected Geller's supernatural abilities and offered mechanistic explanations for his performances. However, the efforts of the new movement, claiming to disprove paranormal abilities, went beyond Geller and mainly concerned [[Astrology|Astrology]]. In 1976, the conference 'The New Irrationalisms: Antiscience and Pseudoscience' at the University at Buffalo finally led to the founding of the ''Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, CSICOP'', the current ''[[Committee_for_Skeptical_Inquiry|Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]], CSI''. In the 1980s, various local "skeptics" groups were formed; in addition to the USA, also in Germany, Australia, Canada, France, Mexico and Great Britain. In 1996, on the 20th anniversary of the founding of CSICOP, associations of so-called "sceptics" existed in more than 20 countries. The first ''World Skeptics Congress'', in the same year in New York, had over 1200 participants from 24 countries. In 2001, there were about 100 such organizations in 38 countries worldwide, including Argentina, Kazakhstan, Korea and Norway. Numerous websites, internet forums and magazines appeared. CSI and its journal 'Skeptical Inquirer', however, continue to form the center of the "skeptics "movement.<ref>Peter Lamont, Extraordinary Beliefs: A Historical Approach to a Psychological Problem, Cambridge University Press 2013, p.229 ff.</ref>
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 == History ==
-{{Wikipedia|Skeptikerbewegung|Skeptikerbewegung|9.8.2018}}
+{{Wikipedia|Skeptikerbewegung|Skeptikerbewegung|9.8.2018}} The historian Peter Lamont sees the origins of the ''so called "skeptic movement"'' in the controversies surrounding [[Uri_Geller|Uri Geller]] in the 1970s. A group of critics, including several psychologists and magicians, rejected Geller's supernatural abilities and offered mechanistic explanations for his performances. However, the efforts of the new movement, claiming to disprove paranormal abilities, went beyond Geller and mainly concerned [[Astrology|Astrology]]. In 1976, the conference 'The New Irrationalisms: Antiscience and Pseudoscience' at the University at Buffalo finally led to the founding of the ''Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, CSICOP'', the current ''[[Committee_for_Skeptical_Inquiry|Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]], CSI''. In the 1980s, various local "skeptics" groups were formed; in addition to the USA, also in Germany, Australia, Canada, France, Mexico and Great Britain. In 1996, on the 20th anniversary of the founding of CSICOP, associations of so-called "sceptics" existed in more than 20 countries. The first ''World Skeptics Congress'', in the same year in New York, had over 1200 participants from 24 countries. In 2001, there were about 100 such organizations in 38 countries worldwide, including Argentina, Kazakhstan, Korea and Norway. Numerous websites, internet forums and magazines appeared. CSI and its journal 'Skeptical Inquirer', however, continue to form the center of the "skeptics "movement.<ref>Peter Lamont, Extraordinary Beliefs: A Historical Approach to a Psychological Problem, Cambridge University Press 2013, p.229 ff.</ref>
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 See Wikipedia article:&nbsp; [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_skeptical_organizations List of skeptical organizations]
-In the German-speaking area the [GWUP|''Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften'' (GWUP)] founded in 1987 is the best-known organization of pseudo-sceptics. It is a founding member of the European Council of Skeptical Organisations (ECSO), an umbrella organisation for European so-called "skeptics" associations founded in 1994.
+In the German-speaking area the GWUP''(Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften'')&nbsp; founded in 1987, is the best-known organization of pseudo-sceptics. It is a founding member of the European Council of Skeptical Organisations (ECSO), an umbrella organisation for European so-called "skeptics" associations founded in 1994.
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 In the German-speaking area the [GWUP|''Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften'' (GWUP)] founded in 1987 is the best-known organization of pseudo-sceptics. It is a founding member of the European Council of Skeptical Organisations (ECSO), an umbrella organisation for European so-called "skeptics" associations founded in 1994.
 === Guerrilla scepticism on Wikipedia ===
-In 2010, [[Susan_Gerbic|Susan Gerbic]] launched the ''Guerrilla scepticism on Wikipedia'' (GSoW), a "project to improve sceptical content on Wikipedia".<ref>http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/wikapediatrician_susan_gerbic_discusses_her_guerrilla_skepticism_on_wikiped; March 8, 2015</ref> In 2017, Gerbic was named a companion of the "Committee for Sceptical Investigation".<ref>http:/wwww.centerforinquiry.net/news/cause_effect_99</ref> You and your GSoW team have received an award from the James Randi Educational Foundation, which is given to "the person or organization that best represents the spirit of the Foundation by promoting critical questions and seeking unbiased, factual answers. We are pleased to recognize Susan's efforts to attract and train a team of editors to continuously improve Wikipedia as a public resource for rationality and scientific thinking."<ref>https://web.randi.org/home/2017-jref-award; accessdate=27 March 2018</ref> (Randi is himself a prominent member of the pseudo-sceptics organization, so the award as to be seen as in internal gratification.)
+In 2010, [[Susan_Gerbic|Susan Gerbic]] launched the ''Guerrilla scepticism on Wikipedia'' (GSoW), a "project to improve sceptical content on Wikipedia".<ref>http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/wikapediatrician_susan_gerbic_discusses_her_guerrilla_skepticism_on_wikiped; March 8, 2015</ref> In 2017, Gerbic was named a companion of the "Committee for Sceptical Investigation".<ref>http:/wwww.centerforinquiry.net/news/cause_effect_99</ref> You and your GSoW team have received an award from the James Randi Educational Foundation, which is given to "the person or organization that best represents the spirit of the Foundation by promoting critical questions and seeking unbiased, factual answers. We are pleased to recognize Susan's efforts to attract and train a team of editors to continuously improve Wikipedia as a public resource for rationality and scientific thinking."<ref>https://web.randi.org/home/2017-jref-award; accessdate=27 March 2018</ref> (Randi himself is a prominent member of the pseudo-sceptic organization, so the award can be considered an internal commendation.)
 In July 2018, Wired magazine reported that the GSoW team had grown to more than 120 volunteer editors from around the world and that they were jointly responsible for "creating or improving some of Wikipedia's best-selling articles on sceptical topics. By July 2018, GSoW has created or completely rewritten more than 630 Wikipedia articles in many languages that have collected over 28 million page views.<ref>https://www.wired.com/story/guerrilla-wikipedia-editors-who-combat-conspiracy-theories/; access-date=July 25, 2018</ref>
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