About the Center for Inquiry - DC
The Center for Inquiry Office of Public Policy is the Washington, D.C. branch of the Center for Inquiry-Transnational. The Center for Inquiry is a nonprofit educational organization that advances critical thinking, freedom of inquiry and humanist values through education, outreach and social services.
The particular focus of the Office of Public Policy is on defending the values of scientific naturalism and secular humanism in the context of U.S. law and public policy. To that end, the Office of Public Policy produces and publishes policy papers on important topics and research. It provides nonpartisan, cutting-edge analyses of relevant issues. It works with influential policymakers to ensure that scientific and rational solutions to contemporary problems are given appropriate consideration.
The office also engages in litigation as an amicus or a plaintiff to protect our constitutional values, including religious liberty, reproductive freedom and equality for the nonreligious. In addition, the Washington office participates in legislative hearings, holds press conferences and sponsors presentations, symposia, and conferences to disseminate its views to a wide audience.
In its efforts, the Office of Public Policy partners with humanist activists, both locally and nationwide, and with other organizations with similar goals.
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About the Center for Inquiry Transnational
The purpose of the Center for Inquiry is to promote and defend reason,
science, and freedom of inquiry in all areas of human endeavor.
The Center for Inquiry is a transnational nonprofit 501(c)(3)
organization that encourages evidence-based inquiry into science,
pseudoscience, medicine and health, religion, ethics, secularism,
and society.
Through education, research, publishing, and social services,
it seeks to present affirmative alternatives based on scientific
naturalism.
The Center is also interested in providing rational ethical
alternatives to the reigning paranormal and religious systems
of belief, and in developing communities where like-minded
individuals can meet and share experiences.
The Center for Inquiry is a Global Federation committed to science, reason, free inquiry, secularism, and planetary ethics.
Center for Inquiry Global Federation
What the Center for Inquiry is About
What the Center for Inquiry Does
The term "Center for Inquiry" was first used in 1991, as a joint project
of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) and the Council for Secular Humanism (CSH), when both organizations shared
a new building in Amherst, N.Y., which was named the Center for Inquiry.
The newest division to be founded in 2003 dealing with medicine and health is the Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health.
CSICOP, founded in 1976, is the publisher of the widely acclaimed magazine, the Skeptical Inquirer;
and the Council, established in 1980, is publisher of Free
Inquiry, the leading humanist magazine in the world. In
June 1995 their headquarters building was expanded and new
Libraries and other facilities were opened. Further expansion of Center for Inquiry International headquarters is currently in development.
Plans to build
Centers in other parts of the United States and the world
were announced in 1995. This transnational movement now includes Centers in Los Angeles
(Center for Inquiry West), New York City (Center for Inquiry Metro New York),
Tampa (Center for Inquiry-Florida), Russia (at Moscow State
University), Germany (Rossdorf), France (Nice), Perú (Lima),
Nigeria (Lagos), and elsewhere.
