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The Gesellschaft für Anomalistik (Society for Anomalistics) is recognised as a charitable organisation for the advancement of science by the German state. Its roughly 130 members, with professional backgrounds in the natural and social sciences as well as in the humanities, advocate a critical but open-minded approach to controversial scientific claims and exceptional human experiences.
Based on multidisciplinary empirical, conceptual and historical research, the Society seeks to promote and cultivate an informed and respectful dialogue between proponents and opponents of controversial scientific claims and seemingly incompatible epistemic positions. The Society's only corporate view is a careful scepticism – meaning 'investigation' rather than 'dogmatic denial' in the original Greek – regarding unconventional claims and scientific orthodoxy alike.
To fulfil its aims, the Society organises workshops and conferences, and it publishes a scholarly peer-reviewed journal, the Zeitschrift für Anomalistik.
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Read on: What is Anomalistics? Marcello Truzzi, The Perspective of Anomalistics (external link)
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Visit the website of our American equivalent, the Society for Scientific Exploration