Skepticoners! GUESS WHAT WE HAVE! Speaker talk titles and descriptions for this year! By Thor, we’ve done it. Without further ado, here is what our amazing lineup will be speaking about next weekend: Laura Thomas:Â A Skeptic’s Guide to the War on Drugs Why are some drugs legal and others illegal? Read more
SKEPTICONERS! It’s officially November! Are you ready for the full throttle amazeballsness of Skepticon 9? We’ve put together this entirely serious and very important checklist of things you should remember to bring to the con: Registered (Only those who register are guaranteed a lanyard and badge!) Place to Crash Way to Read more
Hello Skepticoners! Due to a scheduling mix-up, we have to make a change to this year’s speaker schedule.: Rebecca Watson will now be speaking on Saturday at 11am Dr. Margee Kerr will now be speaking at 7pm on Friday Thank you all and we’ll see you soon! Love, Skepticon P.S.–Did Read more
Hello Skepticonites! Skepticon is so excited (and maybe only a little bit nervous in a good way) to be bringing back panels this year! Let’s see who will be gracing the stage and making it awesome: Polyamory Panelists: Heina Dadabhoy, Joshua Hyde, Nola Olsen, and Benny Vimes with Moderator Stephanie Zvan! Read more
Hello Skepticontownville, Skepticon 9 t-shirt pre-sales end this Friday, October 7th, 2016. If you want to guarantee that you get a beautiful #Sk9 shirt in the size and style you want (and I should mention that due to funding issues this year, we won’t be able to have as many Read more
Skepticoners! Tomorrow, we’ll be doing our video game marathon to raise money for this year’s con. Here’s a message from poor sap, er, video gamer Jason who has volunteered his time: Okay. So. Here’s the deal. I’m playing Megaman for twelve straight hours. The original NES series first, then 7 Read more
Team Skepticon interrupts your regularly scheduled blogs to bring you this message: On Sunday, September 25th, tune in to THIS! VERY! WEBSITE! Via the magic of the intertubes, join Jason Thibeault as he live-streams a Megaman Marathon to raise funds for everyone’s favorite free skeptical conference… uh, what was it Read more
Hello Skepticonverse! We have the Skepticon 9 Schedule ready for you to see! You can view the schedule on our Laynrd page here! This year, Team Skepticon is happy to announce that we will have not one, but TWO PANELS! That’s right, we’re bringing them back like they’re the Terminator Read more
That’s right! While Skepticon may look like a giant fancy pantsy conglomeration, we’re actually entirely run by a small team of volunteers. People who have lives and families of their own dedicate their free time to making this convention happen. Organizing and running this convention is a labor of love for our Read more
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