Good Thinking Society

The Good Thinking Society
Abbreviation GTS
Motto Encouraging curious minds and promoting rational enquiry
Formation September 2012
Founder Simon Singh
Type Nonprofit organisation
Legal status Registered charity[1]
Purpose To encourage curious minds and promote rational enquiry[1]
Region served
 England and Wales[1]
Chairman
 Simon Singh[2]
Johnnie Shannon, Michael Marshall, Laura Thomason[2]
Website goodthinkingsociety.org

The Good Thinking Society is an organisation promoting scientific scepticism established by Simon Singh in September 2012.

Activities

The society aims to raise awareness of and fund sceptical projects.[3]

During the 2014 World Homeopathy Awareness Week, the Good Thinking Society set up a website at homeopathyawarenessweek.org with the purpose of giving a factual scientific view on homeopathy.[4] They also ran Psychic Awareness Month in October 2014 which included handing out leaflets to audience members before psychic's shows in the UK.[5] In April 2015 the organisation threatened legal action against the Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group over its spending of £30,000 per year on homeopathy, with Singh saying "Homeopathic treatments when paid for by the NHS are a waste of crucial resources".[6][7]

Awards

The society runs a number of awards including the Golden Duck award, given for a 'lifetime achievement of quackery', awarded to Andrew Wakefield in 2012.[8] The society also awarded a joint Science Blog Prize to Suzi Gage and David Colquhoun in 2012; Ben Goldacre and Mark Henderson were among the judges, choosing from over 100 entries.[9]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "1147404 - Good Thinking". charitycommission.gov.uk. Charity Commission for England and Wales. 5 April 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "People". GTS website. Good Thinking Society. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Sims, Paul (10 December 2013). "Adding up with The Simpsons". New Humanist. Rationalist Association. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  4. ↑ Doctorow, Cory (April 12, 2014). "Celebrate World Homeopathy Awareness Week with homeopathyawarenessweek.org". Boing Boing. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  5. ↑ Stockwell, Tony (13 October 2014). "Good Thinking Society encourages scepticism at medium’s Pavilion show". Bournemouth Echo. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
  6. ↑ Joshua Taylor (12 April 2015). "Liverpool NHS to review £30k homeopathy bill after threat of legal action". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  7. ↑ Laura Donnelly (27 April 2015). "Homeopathy on the NHS to be reviewed". The Telegraph. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  8. ↑ Jha, Alok (23 December 2012). "Struck off MMR doctor handed award for 'lifetime achievement in quackery'". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  9. ↑ Parr, Chris (1 December 2012). "Science blog awards recognise youth and experience". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 10 April 2014.