The Sacramento Area Skeptics are proud to partner with the Bay Area Skeptics to present the 2010 SkeptiCal Conference. This is the first science and skepticism conference for Northern California. This one-day conference will be held on Saturday, April 24th at the  The David Brower Center in Berkeley, California. The conference will feature lectures as [...]

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Last weekend the Sacramento Area Skeptics were honored to hold a lecture by Glenn Branch on The History and Prospects of Creationism. For those of you who were not able to attend the lecture, links to videos of both the lecture and question-answer period are provided at the bottom of this post as well as [...]

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Yesterday registration started for The Amazing Meeting 8. The latest installment of the James Randi Educational Foundations annual conference. It will be held from July 8th to the 11th in Las Vegas, Nevada. Every year The Amazing Meeting (TAM) features a fantastic lineup of speakers, table discussions, workshops, and this is only half the fun [...]

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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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2009 was a great year for the promotion of science. It happened to be a culmination of several major scientific anniversaries, each with there own celebration of sorts. It was the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin and 150th anniversary of his publication of the On the Origin of Species. There has been Darwin Day celebrations [...]

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Sacramento Area Skeptics January Newsletter

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Thanks to the many skills of fellow Sacramento Area Skeptics Organizer Catherine Osborn, starting this month the SAS will produce a monthly newsletter that will be distributed at our monthly Drinking Skeptically events. It will then be posted to this website on the subsequent Monday in PDF format. Enjoy!
Sacramento Area Skeptics December Newsletter

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It is not a new phenomena for movies to claim that they are based on a true story even though they are just as accurate to an event as any other movie, or as Roger Ebert states “Remember, even in a movie ‘based on a true story’, nothing before the actual end credits needs to [...]

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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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