ORGANIZATION

Formerly the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, renamed in 2006.

Official Website:
http://www.csicop.org/

Location:
Oak Brook, IL

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Richard Dawkins	Biologist	26-Mar-1941		Zoologist and evolutionary biologist
Persi Diaconis	Mathematician	31-Jan-1945		Science of random numbers
Ann Druyan	Author	13-Jun-1949		Co-wrote Cosmos with husband Carl Sagan
Martin Gardner	Mathematician	21-Oct-1914	22-May-2010	Mathematical games, Scientific American
Murray Gell-Mann	Physicist	15-Sep-1929		Quarks and strangeness
Douglas Hofstadter	Author	15-Feb-1945		Godel, Escher, Bach
Paul Kurtz	Philosopher	21-Dec-1925	20-Oct-2012	Pro-skeptic activist
Marvin Minsky	Scientist	9-Aug-1927		Father of Artificial Intelligence
Joe Nickell	Author	1-Dec-1944		Professional skeptic
Bill Nye	TV Personality	27-Nov-1955		Bill Nye the Science Guy
James E. Oberg	Historian	7-Nov-1944		Space exploration historian
John Allen Paulos	Mathematician	4-Jul-1945		Innumeracy
Steven Pinker	Linguist	18-Sep-1954		The Language Instinct
James Randi	Magician	7-Aug-1928		The Amazing Randi
Neil deGrasse Tyson	Astronomer	5-Oct-1958		Astrophysicist
Marilyn vos Savant	Columnist	11-Aug-1946		IQ 228, writes for Parade
Steven Weinberg	Physicist	3-May-1933		Electroweak Theory

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