Association for Skeptical Enquiry

Help fight pseudoscience and promote skepticism

We need your help! ASKE is still a comparatively small organisation and is always on the lookout for new members. As well as those who are just happy to receive our publications and give their moral support we also need members who are willing to play an active role in promoting our aims and objectives. This could include appearing in the media (including TV and radio) or writing an article for the Adversaria or or even helping to test psychic claimants.

Apart from funding this website and our two publications your money is used to help us promote critical thinking about paranormal and pseudo-scientific claims.

The annual fee is currently £10 (£14 for overseas members) and is renewable on January 1st each year (see below). For this almost inconceivably small amount you will receive the following benefits;

• An issue of the Skeptical Intelligencer, which will appear annually in the Autumn.
• 4 issues of the ASKE Newsletter, The Skeptical Adversaria.
• Membership directory.
• The opportunity to take an active role in the skeptic movement (including the ASKE Psychic Challenge).
• Access to our email discussion group, ASKEnet

Plus! Access to our Members Section which which hosts:

Online press cuttings. JPEG files of newspaper and magazine articles.
Details of our web media directory (to which you can add your own details if you are willing to appear in the media)

How we administer membership

A total of two volunteers currently run ASKE and in order to ease the administrative burden we have a standard renewal date of 1st January each year. Obviously if you join on that date there is no problem. However you may decide to join part way through the year or even quite late.

For example suppose you join in July 2009? In this case we will send you all the back issues of our newsletter for the current year and then continue as though you have joined in January. i.e. you would need to renew in January 2010.

On the other hand if you join even later in the year you have a choice. Our journal the Skeptical Intelligencer is produced around October/November each year and you can either purchase this separately and have your membership start on January 2010 or, as above, have the back issues of the newsletter sent to you along with the Intelligencer for 2009. Simply write when you want to start on the membership form.

1 year membership (UK) £10.00

3 year membership (UK) £10.00

1 year membership (Overseas) £14.00

3 year membership (Overseas) £42.00

ASKE operates strictly as a non-profit association and all our work takes place on an entirely voluntary basis. We are entirely dependent on subscription and donations for our funding.

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Download and complete the application form and post it to:

The Secretary
ASKE
PO Box 4650
SheffieldS11 0EE

Download Application Form (MS Word)