On 2013-07-17 02:50, Rob Dingemans wrote:
It looks a bit to me that somebody pulled this organization into the game to make the claims ridiculous, which in turn could work as a boomerang and could result in people not taking CICAP serious at all. In Dutch we would say "schoenmaker blijf bij je leest", as in my perception the phenomena have nothing to do with any paranormal claims whatever.
Think of this organization as a some sort of Italian counterpart of the JREF [1] without the 1-million dollar prize. They are known debunkers of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims and generally are highly regarded in the local mainstream media. As far as I know they rarely investigate claims they're not sure they can debunk or scientifically put under a bad light.
In addition to their main website [2] (the English version previously linked is quite outdated) they have a relatively frequently updated blog version of their official magazine [3] where they covered cold fusion claims a few times in the past years.
There's also a wikipedia page about them [4], for what it's worth. Cheers, S.A. [1] http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/about-the-foundation.html [2] http://www.cicap.org (in Italian) [3] http://www.queryonline.it/ (in Italian) [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICAP
