Lee Nisbet This year we’ve been celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the formation of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI). Lee Nisbet, who died November 22, 2025, played an instrumental role in the organization’s formation and continued development. Writing to help celebrate our twenty-fifth anniversary, Nisbet wrote: “The founding of CSICOP was a fortuitous accident of time, place, and personality. The founding of a CSICOP-like organization was a highly probable creative reaction of science-literate people to an immensely influential means of communication reflecting public ambivalence toward institutionalized science” (Nisbet 2001, 50). Alongside Paul Kurtz and Marcello Truzzi, Nisbet helped organize the 1976 meeting that marked the beginning of organized skepticism. As a founding member of CSICOP, he assumed a leadership role. A CSI fellow, he contributed to both Skeptical Inquirer and Free Inquiry magazines, and he served as a professor of philosophy for over forty years at Medaille College in Buffalo, New York. Barry Karr, the executive director of CSICOP who succeeded …