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Line 66: Hack was also known for her activities outside of science, especially in the social and political fields. She was an atheist and she did not believe in any religion or form of supernaturalism.<ref name=vati>[http://cfivarese.altervista.org/Ingerenza_del_Vaticano.html Ingerenza del Vaticano di Margherita Hack] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305094409/http://cfivarese.altervista.org/Ingerenza_del_Vaticano.html \|date=2016-03-05 }}</ref> She also considered that ethics does not derive from religion, but from "principles of conscience" that allow anyone to have a secular view of life, respectful of other people's individuality and freedom.<ref name=vati /> Hostile to any form of superstition, including pseudoscience, she was a scientific guarantor of [[CICAP]] since 1989 and an honorary president of the [[Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics]] (UAAR).<ref>[http://www.uaar.it/uaar/presidenti_onorari#Hack I Presidenti onorari dell'UAAR]</ref> In 2005 she joined [[Luca Coscioni Association for the freedom of scientific research]]. She was a member of the [[Transnational Radical Party]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121128025327/http://old.radicalparty.org/member/hack.htm Pagina di Margherita Hack sul sito web del Partito Radicale Transnazionale (RadicalParty.org)]</ref>