Statement of principles: "The AFIS strives to promote science against those who deny its cultural value, abuse it for criminal purposes or as a cover for quackery."

Via its magazine, Science et pseudo-sciences, the association states it wants: Independent of all pressure groups, it rejects any concession to sensationalism, disinformation and complacency regarding the irrational.

He has also written for the English magazine Skeptical Inquirer about free energy and chromotherapy,[6] and about wrong beliefs surrounding electromagnetic radiations.

The analysis was conducted by a group of astrophysicists and astronomers (Jean-Claude Pecker, Jean Audouze and Denis Savoie), sociologists (Bernard Lahire and Philippe Cibois), a philosopher (Jacques Bouveresse) and specialists of pseudosciences (Henri Broch and Jean-Paul Krivine).

[20] After the publication of the report on global warming, including giving a voice to climate change deniers such as Vincent Courtillot and Benoît Rittaud,[21][22] the association received criticism from climatologists and the Union rationaliste.

[23] Sylvestre Huet, science journalist at Libération, expressed his disappointment with the "mediocre" coverage of the topic in a critique of the association.