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CONFERENCES
CSICon Las Vegas
European Skeptics Congress
NECSS New York City
New Zealand Skeptics Conference
Skepkon Germany
SkeptiCal California
Skepticon Australia
WeCanReason Canada

PODCASTS
Back to the Vax – Lydia Greene & Heather Simpson
Be Reasonable – Michael Marshall
Big Picture Science – Seth Shostak & Molly Bentley
Oh No – Ross & Carrie – Ross Blocher & Carrie Poppy
Point of Inquiry – Jim Underdown
Rationally Speaking – Julia Galef
Skepchick – Rebecca Watson
Skeptically Yours – Emery Emery & Heather Henderson
Skeptics Guide to the Universe – Steven Novella et al.
Skeptics with a K – Hayley Stevens, Michael Marshall, et al.
Skeptoid – Brian Dunning
Squaring the Strange – Ben Radford, Pascual Romero, & Celestia Ward
The Geologic Podcast – George Hrab
The Reality Check – Producer Pat, Christina Roach, et al.
The Skeptic Zone – Richard Saunders

ORGANIZATIONS
Association for Skeptical Enquiry United Kingdom
Atlanta Skeptics GA
Atlantic Association for Scientific Information Paris France
Australian Skeptics
Backyard Skeptics Orange County CA
Baltimore Secular Humanists
Belgian Committee for the Critical Analysis of Parasciences
Center For Inquiry Argentina
Center For Inquiry China
Center For Inquiry Ottawa Canada
Center For Inquiry Western New York
Círculo Escéptico Spain
Colorado Skeptics Denver CO
Czech Skeptics Club Sisyfos
European Council of Skeptical Organisations
Glasgow Skeptics Scotland
Good Thinking Society England
Hampshire Skeptics Society Winchester NH
Hong Kong Skeptics in the Pub China
Idaho Skeptics & Atheists ID
Italian Committee for the Control of Claims on Pseudosciences Padova Italy
Kansas City Skeptics MO
Les Sceptiques du Québec Canada
Madison Skeptics WI
Maharashtra Superstition Eradication Committee India
Merseyside Skeptics Society Liverpool England
Michigan Skeptics Association
Minnesota Skeptics
Monterey County Skeptics CA
National Capital Area Skeptics DC
New Mexicans for Science and Reason
New York City Skeptics
North Bay Skeptics Santa Rosa CA
North Texas Skeptics
NZ Skeptics New Zealand
Oklahoma Skeptics Society
Oregonians for Science & Reason OR
Organization Against Quackery The Netherlands
Peruvian Rationalist Humanist Institute Lima Peru
Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking
Philadelphia Skeptics in the Pub
Phoenix Area Skeptics Society AZ
Polish Society of Scientific Skeptics
Portuguese Skeptic Community Portugal
R.E.A.S.O.N. Nebraska
Rationalists of East Tennessee
Rhode Island Skeptics
Romania Rationalist Society
Sacramento Area Skeptics CA
Salt City Skeptics Salt Lake City UT
Santa Cruz County Skeptics CA
Science and Public Education Sweden
Seattle Skeptics & Science Enthusiasts WA
S.E.V.A.S.H. Hampton VA
Silicon Valley Skeptics San Jose CA
SKEPP Belgium
Skepsis Finland
Skepsis Netherlands
Skepsis Norway
Skeptics Canada Toronto Canada
Society for the Advancement of Critical Thinking Spain
Society of Skeptics NJ
Springfield Skeptics MO
Suncoast Skeptics Sarasota FL
Swedish Skeptics Association
Tampa Bay Skeptics FL
Triangle Skeptics Raleigh NC
Wellington Skeptics in the Pub NZ
West Virginia Skeptics Society

PERIODICALS / WEBZINES
Pensar Argentina
Skepter Belgium
Skeptic U.S.A.
Skeptica Denmark
Skeptical Inquirer U.S.A.
Skeptiker (in German)
Skeptikko Finland
The Skeptic United Kingdom

Virtual Skeptics in the Pub

WHAT: Virtual Skeptics in the Pub

This is a casual night of socializing with fellow skeptics. If needed, we will have a number of breakout rooms for quieter conversations.

Please join us! This is a free event brought to you by Bay Area Skeptics. All are welcome, but please be respectful of others.

WHEN: Wednesday 27 September 7-9pm Pacific (0200-0400 UTC Thurs)

HOW: Zoom. Join HERE. Passcode: 1023

SkepTalk

Peter Hadfield

WHAT: Potholer54 discussion with Eugenie Scott
Join Bay Area Skeptics president Eugenie Scott in a wide-ranging conversation with science journalist and creator of the very popular skeptical YouTube channel, Potholer54. Through clips from the channel, Scott and Hadfield discuss his approach to his long-time production of science-related videos, and the importance of outreach to the public to encourage critical thinking and accurate scientific knowledge. With over 232,000 subscribers and over 32 million views, Potholer54 is one of the most popular YouTube science-related sites.

WHO: Peter Hadfield is a geologist by training, and a journalist by profession, a combination that is very amenable to analyses of “extraordinary claims”, as Carl Sagan termed them. Using both his science background and journalistic techniques of investigation and analysis, his videos are informative and lively. He became an overseas correspondent for the London Times, a columnist for the Daily Mail, and also a correspondent for New Scientist. He got into broadcasting from print journalism almost by accident, by happening to be in Tokyo’s Foreign Correspondents Club when Boston’s Monitor Radio called asking for someone for a Q&A and he picked up the phone. Monitor subsequently made him their Far East correspondent, and other media (such as CBC, NPR, BBC, and so forth), followed, and for several years he filed investigative stories from around the world. But he continued to file science stories with New Scientist, and write science-related stories for BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Company, and others, including USA Today, and US News and World Report, eventually adding the medium of television to radio for many of these outlets.He combined these media, scientific, and journalistic skills in his YouTube site, Potholer54, where he has provided the public with insightful analyses of numerous pseudoscientific claims that can loosely be grouped into categories like Creationism, Climate Change, Vaccines, COVID 19, and Pseudoarchaeology. With a touch of Monty Python….

WHEN: Thursday 12 October @ 7:30PM Pacific (0230 UTC)

WHERE: Online. Click HERE to join.