Association for Skeptical Enquiry

Welcome to the Association for Skeptical Enquiry (ASKE) website

ASKE is a UK based organisation that looks at, and sometimes investigates, paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. In essence we promote a scientific approach to such claims and expose them to the searchlight of reason.

So far we haven't found any scientific basis for telepathy, psychokinesis, UFOs, astrology, dowsing, speaking with the dead or in fact any of the numerous varieties of extraordinary claims made by so many in the UK today.

That's not to say such things definitely do not exist but some of us are so convinced that we are prepared to offer a cash prize to anyone who can prove a psychic claim under proper observing conditions.

Please feel free to look around our site and if you would like to help then please join us or make a donation.

The ASKE Psychic Challenge now stands at £14,000 This is open to anyone in the United Kingdom who claims to have psychic ability!

From the ASKE Chairman
PLACEBO THERAPY: How to develop an effective and ethical quack treatment. The following instructions provide a protocol for constructing a placebo treatment of your own devising. If you follow the instructions then you are guaranteed to have the means to be a successful quack. Your treatment will benefit many, though not all, of the patients you see and as long as your patient is also receiving the treatment indicated by mainstream medicine, it will have no adverse side effects. Read more...