Editing Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (section)

==Organization==

=== Umbrella organization ===
The [[Center for Inquiry]] is the transnational non-profit [[umbrella organization]] comprising CSI, the [[Council for Secular Humanism]], the [[Center for Inquiry]] – On Campus (national youth group) and the Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} These organizations share headquarters and some staff, and each has their own list of fellows and their distinct mandates. CSI generally addresses questions of religion only in cases in which testable scientific assertions have been made (such as [[weeping statues]] or [[faith healing]]). {{citation needed|date=August 2016}}

=== Independent Investigation Group ===

The [[Center for Inquiry]] West, located in Hollywood, California Executive Director [[James Underdown|Jim Underdown]] founded the [[Independent Investigations Group]] (IIG), a volunteer-based organization in January 2000. The IIG investigates [[fringe science]], [[paranormal]], and extraordinary claims from a rational, scientific viewpoint and disseminates factual information about such inquiries to the public. IIG has offered a $50,000 prize "to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, [[supernatural]], or [[occult]] power or event", to which 7 people applied from 2009 to 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iigwest.org/challenge.html |title=IIG Challenge |publisher=Iigwest.org |access-date=2016-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726172822/http://www.iigwest.org/challenge.html |archive-date=July 26, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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36 Wendy PB Picture.jpg|IIG testing [[Power Balance]] bracelet in progress, October 28, 2010
25 Wendy PB Picture.jpg|[[Dominique Dawes]] & IIG's [[James Underdown]] discuss test protocols Oct 28, 2010
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