SkeptCal 2026

Get your tickets now for the lowest price of the year for the 2026 SkeptiCal Conference, northern California’s meeting on science and critical thinking.   

Speakers (see weblink for abstracts and bios):   

• Placebos for Pets: Alternative Medicine for Animals (Brennan McKenzie)       
• Burning Questions: A Skeptical Examination of Wildfire Risk and Response (Peter Hess)    
• What Every Skeptic Should Know about Cold-Reading (Susan Gerbic)    
• Adventures at the Festival of Mind Body Spirit (Wallet) (Richard Saunders)    
• Skepardy! (hosted by Bill Patterson with special guest contestants)    
• Skeptics Jukebox (Joey Fabian)    
• Selective Skepticism is not Skepticism (Thomas Smith)
• We've Got Trouble: How The Music Man Anticipated America's Appetite for Misinformation (Ross Blocher)
• From False Color to Fake Content: When is an Astrophotograph Real (Leonard Tramel)

$70 until June 15, $75 General, $20 Students with ID