Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
PLEASE NOTE: WE WILL BE USING THE LIBRARY'S WI-FI FOR THE STREAM, AND THERE MAY BE BANDWIDTH ISSUES.
Susan Gerbic is the recipient of the 2022 Philip J. Klass Award for outstanding contributions in critical thinking and scientific understanding.
In this talk, she will discuss "About Time," a nonprofit she founded in 2018, which recruits, mentors, and trains people to promote science and scientific skepticism through crowdsourced and educational activities worldwide. It features "Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia" (GSoW), a group of editors who create and improve Wikipedia articles to reflect scientific skepticism. This year, the total written pages surpassed 2,000 in 15 languages, with over 100 million views.
She'll also present the latest news about her sting operations against psychic mediums, whom she calls "grief vampires" for cynically claiming to communicate with dead loved ones.
In addition to receiving the Klass Award, Susan Gerbic is the recipient of the James Randi Educational Foundation's "James Randi Award for Skepticism in the Public Interest" in 2013, and the "JREF Award" in 2017.
A fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, she is also co-founder of Monterey County Skeptics, a frequent contributor to Skeptical Inquirer, and a fellow for GWUP, the German-speaking skeptics' society.
Views expressed in this talk are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Capital Area Skeptics.
PLEASE NOTE: WE WILL BE USING THE LIBRARY'S WI-FI FOR THE STREAM, AND THERE MAY BE BANDWIDTH ISSUES.
Susan Gerbic is the recipient of the 2022 Philip J. Klass Award for outstanding contributions in critical thinking and scientific understanding.
In this talk, she will discuss "About Time," a nonprofit she founded in 2018, which recruits, mentors, and trains people to promote science and scientific skepticism through crowdsourced and educational activities worldwide. It features "Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia" (GSoW), a group of editors who create and improve Wikipedia articles to reflect scientific skepticism. This year, the total written pages surpassed 2,000 in 15 languages, with over 100 million views.
She'll also present the latest news about her sting operations against psychic mediums, whom she calls "grief vampires" for cynically claiming to communicate with dead loved ones.
In addition to receiving the Klass Award, Susan Gerbic is the recipient of the James Randi Educational Foundation's "James Randi Award for Skepticism in the Public Interest" in 2013, and the "JREF Award" in 2017.
A fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, she is also co-founder of Monterey County Skeptics, a frequent contributor to Skeptical Inquirer, and a fellow for GWUP, the German-speaking skeptics' society.
Views expressed in this talk are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Capital Area Skeptics.
