The association publishes the quarterly journal Folkvett and organises lectures on themes related to science and pseudoscience.

Philosopher Martin Gustafsson at the University of Stockholm argues that VoF exaggerates the threats against rationality and science, and that its representatives erroneously depict themselves as underdogs in a war on widespread superstition.

He has also maintained that the Enlightenment's ideal of free thought clashes with the respect for scientific authority that VoF espouses.

[10] Per-Anders Forstorp at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, suggests that VoF represents positivism and institutionalised intolerance.

[11] Sven Ove Hansson has commented on this kind of criticism: The way I see it, VoF and the general skeptical movement is not characterised by any particular view of science.