About the SSE
The Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) is a professional organization of scientists and scholars who study unusual and unexplained phenomena. Subjects often cross mainstream boundaries, such as consciousness, unidentified aerial phenomena, and alternative medicine, yet often have profound implications for human knowledge and technology.
The SSE was founded in 1982 and has approximately 800 members in 45 countries worldwide. The SSE publishes a peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of Scientific Exploration (JSE), and holds annual meetings in the USA and biennial meetings in Europe. Associate and student memberships are available to the public, and everyone is encouraged to attend meetings and participate with the society.
2013 SSE Meeting DVDs Available
DVDs are available of talks given at the 2013 SSE Meeting, starting July 7. Pre-orders are being accepted. Thematic or full-set copies are available. Use this order form to pre-order DVDs.
2013 Meeting Program
FREE RESOURCES
Journal of Scientific Exploration
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EdgeScience Magazine
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SSE Talks
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| Peer-reviewed research articles from the JSE. | Popular quarterly magazine of open-minded science. | Full streaming videos from SSE meetings on various subjects. |
MEMBER BENEFITS
Print/Online JSE
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SSE Meetings
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The Explorer
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| Full print or online Journal; 2008-present archive. | Annual North American meetings; biennial European meetings. | Organization newsletter, published quarterly. |
The primary goal of the international Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) is to provide a professional forum for presentations, criticism, and debate concerning topics which are for various reasons ignored or studied inadequately within mainstream science. A secondary goal is to promote improved understanding of those factors that unnecessarily limit the scope of scientific inquiry, such as sociological constraints, restrictive world views, hidden theoretical assumptions, and the temptation to convert prevailing theory into prevailing dogma.
Topics under investigation cover a wide spectrum. At one end are apparent anomalies in well established disciplines. At the other, we find paradoxical phenomena that belong to no established discipline and therefore may offer the greatest potential for scientific advance and the expansion of human knowledge.
The Society encourages such investigations for several reasons that may appeal to different communities:
- To the research scientist, we commend the intellectual challenge of explaining away an apparent anomaly or seizing the new knowledge presented by a real one.
- To the student scientist, we point out that science does not begin with textbooks: it begins with the unknown and ends with textbooks.
- To the nonscientist, we acknowledge that deep public interest in some of these topics calls for unprejudiced evaluation based on objective research.
- To the policy-maker, we point out that today's anomaly may become tomorrow's technology.
