With the increase with parapsychological investigation, there came an increase versus both the findings of parapsychologists and the granting of any formal recognition of the field. Criticisms of the field were focused inside founding of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims in the Paranormal (1976), today called the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and its periodical, Skeptical Inquirer. Ultimately, more mainstream scientists grew to be critical of parapsychology as an endeav
