Skeptic Society
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| Formation | 2013 |
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| Type | Nonprofit organization |
| Purpose | Communicating science and skepticism, promote and teach skeptical thinking skills |
| Headquarters | Moscow |
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Region served | Russian-speaking world |
Chairman | Kirill Alferov |
| Website | skepticon.ru |
The Skeptic Society (Russian: Общество скептиков, Óbščestvo skeptikov) is a Russian-speaking skeptical society. Its aim is to spread critical thinking, popularize science, educate the general public, promote and teach critical and skeptical thinking skills and create a platform for science and skepticism communication.
The Society was founded on 31 March 2013, when Kirill Alferov organized the first meeting of the society in Moscow.,[1] in part on the principles frequent in-person meetups and distributed participation.[2] Since then, the Society has met every second Thursday of the month. From 2014 onward, local groups of the Skeptic Society were also founded, and regular meetings held, in Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Voronezh, Ufa, Samara, Almaty, Pavlodar, Kharkiv, and Kazan.[3]
On 25 October 2014, the first Skeptic Society conference, Skepticon (Скептикон), took place in Moscow.[4] Around 250 people attended the conference.[5] On 26–27 November 2016, the third Skepticon was held with 350 people attending.[6]