Comité Para

Comité belge pour l'Analyse Critique des parasciences
AbbreviationComité Para
Formation1949
TypeNonprofit organisation
PurposeScientific investigation of paranormal claims
Location
  • Brussels, Belgium
Region served
French-speaking Belgium
President
Alice Van Helden
Websitecomitepara.be

The Comité Para, in full Comité belge pour l'Analyse Critique des parasciences (from French: "Belgian Committee for the Critical Analysis of Parasciences"), is a francophone-Belgian non-profit organisation of skeptics. Founded in 1949, the Comité Para regards itself as the originator of the modern skeptical movement. The group's motto (by Robert Rendu) is Ne rien nier a priori, ne rien affirmer sans preuve ("Do not deny anything a priori, do not assert anything without evidence").

"Comité Para" originally stood for Comité Belge pour l'Investigation Scientifique des Phénomènes Réputés Paranormaux ("Belgian Committee for Scientific Investigation of Purported Paranormal Phenomena") until it adopted its present name on 19 June 2014.

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