Editing Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (section)

=== 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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