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Entries Tagged as 'Skepticism'

The Amazing Meeting 8

February 26th, 2010 · No Comments

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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January Newsletter

January 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

Sacramento Area Skeptics January Newsletter

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December Newsletter

December 21st, 2009 · No Comments

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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Skeptics at the Movies

November 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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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Atheist ≠ Skeptic

October 9th, 2009 · No Comments

It is important to keep in mind that atheism and skepticism are separate. For skeptics the line separating the two can become blurry from time to time. This could be due to the fact that many if not most skeptics consider themselves atheists and that most of our intellectual skeptic hero’s are atheists (James Randi, [...]

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