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COMCEPT, the Glossary

COMCEPT, acronym for Comunidade Céptica Portuguesa (English: Portuguese Skeptical Community), is a Portuguese project dedicated to scientific skepticism, created to promote rational and critical thinking about paranormal and pseudoscientific claims from a scientific point of view.^[1]

42 relations: Acronym, Age of Enlightenment, April Fools' Day, Arazede, Assembly of the Republic (Portugal), Bial, Charles Darwin, Christmas, Coimbra, Conspiracy theory, Critical thinking, Don Quixote, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, I (Portuguese newspaper), International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, James Randi Educational Foundation, Jornal de Notícias, Lisbon, List of skeptical conferences, Manuel Pinto Coelho, Mass media, Meteoroid, Nazaré, Portugal, Nonprofit organization, Oliveira de Azeméis, Paranormal, Phonograph, Pigasus Award, Porto, Portugal, Pseudoscience, Rádio Comercial, RTP1, Science, Scientific skepticism, Simone de Oliveira, Skeptics in the Pub, Social media, Sociedade Independente de Comunicação, The Emperor's New Clothes, Tree of life (biology), University of Coimbra.
2012 establishments in Portugal
Non-profit organisations based in Portugal
Skeptic organizations

Acronym

An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation.

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Age of Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.

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April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day is an annual custom on 1 April consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes.

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Arazede

Arazede is a town in Montemor-o-Velho Municipality in Portugal.

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Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)

The Assembly of the Republic (Portuguese: Assembleia da República), commonly referred to as simply Parliament (Portuguese: Parlamento), is the unicameral parliament of Portugal.

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Bial

Bial (Portela e C.ª, S.A.) is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in São Mamede do Coronado, in Trofa, Porto district, Portugal.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

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Coimbra

Coimbra (also,, or) is a city and a municipality in Portugal.

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Conspiracy theory

A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy by powerful and sinister groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable.

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Critical thinking

Critical thinking is the analysis of available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments in order to form a judgement by the application of rational, skeptical, and unbiased analyses and evaluation.

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Don Quixote

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.

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Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon

The Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidade de Lisboa (FFUL) is a Portuguese public institution of higher education dedicated to education, research, knowledge transfer and continuing education in the fields of pharmacy, medicine, and pharmaceutical sciences.

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I (Portuguese newspaper)

I (stylised in lowercase; abbreviation for "informação", meaning information in English) is a Portuguese language compact daily newspaper published in Lisbon, Portugal.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.

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James Randi Educational Foundation

James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) is an American grant-making institution founded in 1996 by magician and skeptic James Randi.

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Jornal de Notícias

Jornal de Notícias (shortened to JN) is a Portuguese daily national newspaper, one of the oldest in Portugal.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.

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List of skeptical conferences

This is a list of notable conferences that promote or practice scientific skepticism.

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Manuel Pinto Coelho

Manuel Ferreira Pinto Coelho (26 July 1948) is a Portuguese physician and author, owner and clinical director of Clínica Doutor Pinto Coelho.

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Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.

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Meteoroid

A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space.

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Nazaré, Portugal

Nazaré is a Portuguese town and municipality located in the Oeste region, in the historical province of Estremadura, and in the Leiria District.

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Nonprofit organization

A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.

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Oliveira de Azeméis

Oliveira de Azeméis is a city and a municipality located in Porto Metropolitan Area in Portugal.

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Paranormal

Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding.

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Phonograph

A phonograph, later called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910), and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of recorded sound.

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Pigasus Award

The Pigasus Award is the name of an annual tongue-in-cheek award that was presented by noted skeptic James Randi.

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Porto

Porto, also known as Oporto, is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.

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Rádio Comercial

Rádio Comercial is a commercial radio station in Portugal aimed at young people and adults.

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RTP1

RTP1 (RTP um) is a Portuguese free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP).

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Science

Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.

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Scientific skepticism

Scientific skepticism or rational skepticism (also spelled scepticism), sometimes referred to as skeptical inquiry, is a position in which one questions the veracity of claims lacking empirical evidence.

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Simone de Oliveira

Simone de Macedo e Oliveira, GCIH • GMC (born 11 February 1938) better known as Simone de Oliveira is a Portuguese singer and actress.

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Skeptics in the Pub

Skeptics in the Pub (abbreviated SITP) is an informal social event designed to promote fellowship and social networking among skeptics, critical thinkers, freethinkers, rationalists and other like-minded individuals.

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Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.

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Sociedade Independente de Comunicação

SIC (acronym of full name Sociedade Independente de Comunicação) ("Independent Communication Society") is a Portuguese television network and media company, which runs several television channels.

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The Emperor's New Clothes

"The Emperor's New Clothes" (Kejserens nye klæder) is a literary folktale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, about a vain emperor who gets exposed before his subjects.

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Tree of life (biology)

The tree of life or universal tree of life is a metaphor, conceptual model, and research tool used to explore the evolution of life and describe the relationships between organisms, both living and extinct, as described in a famous passage in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859).

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University of Coimbra

The University of Coimbra (UC; Universidade de Coimbra) is a public research university in Coimbra, Portugal.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMCEPT

COMCEPT, the Glossary

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2012 establishments in Portugal

Non-profit organisations based in Portugal

Skeptic organizations

References