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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...

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...

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....

These are serious times, and serious times call for a bunch of silly dinosaurs. Our silly dinosaurs are the finest available, and we love them. This message has been brought to you by the Skepticon Team–if you like what you see, please consider...

When you step outside of the lecture caverns at Skepticon, you will find many other things going on. First, you will notice our lovely hallway tables where vendors will equip you with all the books and videos and shirts and pins and bumper stickers and doodads and...

Every conference has speakers. Not every conference can have speakers as awesome as Skepticon’s speakers! What makes our speakers so great? First, Skepticon asks everyone we know and their moms who we should be listening to this year. (There’s also a speaker...

Hello Skepticoneers, It’s September! Which means we’re only a couple of months away from the universe’s largest (and totally FREE to attend) skeptic convention: Skepticon! However, we need to ask for your help–we’re only halfway to our...

We get asked on a regular, millisecond-level basis, why Springfield, MO? Skeptic, humanist, and atheist conferences in the U.S. tend to (consensually) hug the coasts. This makes it easier to attract attendees from big coastal cities. These cities also have large,...

Our goal is to allow as many people to participate in Skepticon goodness as safely and comfortably as we can manage. We will never be perfect, but we will keep learning and trying every year. We welcome your ideas on how to make Skepticon better. We challenge...

Skepticon is committed to being free to attend, and to providing whatever support we can so that anyone can participate. To keep Skepticon free for our attendees, we have to work hard keeping costs low. Skepticon is run entirely by volunteers. No one in the...

Despite having occasional bouts of misanthropy and despairing of human abilities to reason and live together with justice and in peace, we would love to have everyone in the world come to Skepticon. (Imagine all the t-shirts we would have to order!) But we see our...

Skepticonees! The Skepticon 9 Shirt is HERE! Pre-order this shirt today to ensure you get the style and size you want. Designed by Missouri based design duo Bear & Otter Co., this shirt is everything that #SK9 dreams are made of: The high quality shirt itself is...

Yeah, really! Says so right in the name. It’s even in Missouri – the ‘Show Me State’. Okay, so we give our skeptical side-eye to a lot of things that other skeptics groups consider to be outside the traditions of the skeptical movement. But...

Skepticonics, We’re proud to announce our next speaker for Skepticon 9: Rebecca Watson! Rebecca Watson is the founder of the Skepchick Network, a collection of sites focused on science and critical thinking. She has written for outlets such as Slate, Popular...

Skepticonpeople, We’re proud to announce our next speaker for Skepticon 9: Bria Crutchfield! Born and raised in Los Angeles, Bridgett (known as ‘Bria’) was raised, baptized and disfellowshipped from Jehovah’s Witness faith. She segued to Pentecostal Christianity...