With the increase within parapsychological investigation, there came an increase in opposition to both the findings of parapsychologists and the granting of any formal recognition of the field. Criticisms of the field were focused in the founding of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims with the Paranormal (1976), today called the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and it's periodical, Skeptical Inquirer. Eventually, more mainstream scientists became critical of parapsychology f
