Yet another SkeptiCal Conference has come and gone. This years conference, once again organised by the Sacramento Area Skeptics and Bay Area Skeptics, marks the events third year. Like previous years there were stimulating plenary lectures, interactive breakout sessions, and entertaining performances. There were also some new things offered this year – With help from [...]

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Tickets are now available for the 2011 SkeptiCal Conference! It will be held once again at the Berkeley Doubletree on Saturday, April 21st. We are proud to once again bring together a sterling cast of excellent and knowledgeable speakers on science and skepticism. We anticipate another day of stimulating ideas and conversation. Please see our [...]

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The 2011 SkeptiCal Conference has been scheduled! It will be held at the Berkeley Doubletree on May 29, 2011. Last year’s conference sold out past capacity, so please buy your tickets as soon as possible to ensure a seat! To register for the conference visit: http://www.skepticalcon.org/ Speakers this year include: Glenn Branch Dr. Robert “Bob” [...]

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As a skeptic, you know the feeling, when someone around you says something credulous that you just can’t let go. It is for this reason that we are labeled as the group curmudgeon; however, it is our duty as a skeptic to nip bad information in the bud. Eddie Scott, a member of the Sacramento [...]

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A few months ago I wrote an article on the Winchester Mansion in San Jose California. It was the first article in a series I will be doing on the more popular woo-woo stories Northern California is known for. In that article I praised the management of the Winchester Mystery House for not hyping up [...]

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The Sacramento Coalition of Reason (SacramentoCoR) has gained some local attention today with a Sacramento Bee article about the organizations ten billboards that have emerged from Rocklin to Davis, as a member organization this article also mentioned the Sacramento Area Skeptics. SacramentoCoR is an organization comprised of the agnostic, atheist, freethinker, humanist, and skeptic organizations [...]

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Northern California is a unique place for skeptics. We house several important universities as well as many top scientists and skeptics, facts that we can all be proud of; however, it is also the birth place to a whole lot of woo-woo. I will start documenting some of the more popular phenomena Northern California is [...]

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