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College of Marin

1 October – Skeptics in the Pub: Sunnyvale
19 October – North Bay Skeptics [Online]
23 – 24 October – SkeptiCal 2021 [Online]
11 November – SkepTalk [Online]
12 December – SkepTalk [Online]

Skeptics in the Pub: Sunnyvale

WHEN: Friday 1 October 7pm

WHERE: TAP’T Beer & Kitchen, 259 W Washington Ave, Sunnyvale [Map]

HOW: Sponsored by the Silicon Valley Skeptics

North Bay Skeptics – Online

WHAT: We are humanists, atheists, freethinkers, agnostics or undeclared, who gather for chatting, mingling, eating, and joke telling, all while consuming non-homeopathic liquids.

WHEN: Tuesday 19 October 7PM

HOW: Brought to you by the North Bay Skeptics.

SkeptiCal 2021 – Online

Something skeptical this way comes…

Details here.

SkepTalk – Online

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

WHAT: Who’s Making All Those Scam Calls?
Everyone has experienced the call. “This is Alex from the credit card company. We have a refund we want to give you that has to be deposited directly into your bank account. What is your bank account number?” or words to that effect. Or maybe “Alex” (or “Vicki”, or “Josh”) has bad news: your credit rating will plummet if you don’t send his/her company $200 immediately. What’s your credit card number? Calls like this bilk tens of thousands of people – many of them elderly – out of billions of dollars every year. What happens when a reporter traces one of these calls back to its source – in this case, to an Indian boiler room – with the assistance of a Brit hacker. Who is making all those scam calls, anyway, and what’s their story?

WHO: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee is a prize-winning reporter who worked for Science magazine until 2014. A contributing writer to the New York Times, the New Yorker, National Geographic, The Guardian, and other publications. A one-time crime reporter, he has long been interested in scams and frauds. His best-selling spy thriller, The Spy Who Couldn’t Spell, was described as “telling a story that would make a kickass movie”. It has, in fact, been optioned by Hollywood.

WHEN: Thursday 11 November 7:30PM

Where: Online. Details to come.

SkepTalk – Online

WHO: A.J. White

WHAT: Dangers of the “Lost Civilization” Trope

WHEN: Thursday 12 December 7:30PM

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