KASES
The Kentucky Association of Science Educators and Skeptics

A nonprofit dedicated to improving science education and critical thinking.

About KASES
Our members include science professionals at every educational level as well as attorneys, medical professionals, librarians, reporters, and many others.  More...


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KENTUCKY FOSSILS?
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Kentucky Paleontological Society

KASES provides guest speakers on a variety of scientific subjects.  Please e-mail us your requests.   (We are especially glad to be invited to appear on panels with creationists and other pseudoscientists.)  Spotted some pseudoscience in a news articles or broadcast? Let us know!

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In honor of Darwin Day:

"Geochronology: Geologic Time and the Age of the Earth"

presented by Dan Phelps, 
President, Kentucky Paleontological Society
(http://www.uky.edu/OtherOrgs/KPS)

Cosponsored by the Humanist Forum of Central Kentucky (a chapter of the American Humanist Association), the Kentucky Association of Science Educators and Skeptics, and the Kentucky Paleontological Society

7 pm, February 8, 2012
Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington
3564 Clays Mill Rd., Lexington KY 40503
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" Darwin : Demon or Revolutionary?"

Featuring Eugenie C. Scott, PhD, Executive Director of the
National
Center
for Science Education

Cosponsored by the Kentucky Section of the American Institute for Professional Geologists and the Kentucky Paleontological Society

7 pm, February 16, 2012
Singletary Center , University of Kentucky
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Articles by KASES members: Has Deepak Done The Impossible? / Why I am a Skeptic / Book review: The Afterlife Experiments / OmniMyth of Kentucky Theme Park  / Saint George and the Baryonyx (review of Dinosaurs by Design by Gish / Baugh on Baugh:The "Creation Evidence" Museum / Review of Allan & Delair, Cataclysm!

Other Resources:
Quackwatch / Junk Science / Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine / Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice / Field Guide to Critical Thinking / Skeptics' Annotated Bible / Yahoo Groups/Skeptic RN / Logical Fallacies / Urban Myths / Talk Origins (evolution) / Evolution (Berkeley) / Panda’s Thumb / National Center for Science Education / Kentucky Paleontological Society

Our favorite science-related podcasts: NPR Science Friday (Ira Flatow) / Skywatch (astronomy program, STSI public outreach) / Naked Scientists (BBC radio show, Cambridge) / Discovery Channel Science News (Headlines &  quick summaries)NOVA (Headlines & quick summaries) / The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

KIDS!
Urban legends, aliens, Bigfoot, Atlantis?? It's more fun to be skeptical! Check out the Skeptic's Dictionary!

Science fair ideas

National Science Resources Center


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The Spin Cycle
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Center for Public Integrity
PR Watch
Institute for Public Accuracy

Allies
Kentucky Council Against Health Fraud
National Center for Science Education

Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI)
Center for Inquiry
Skeptics Dictionary
Skeptic Magazine
Cincinnati Skeptics
Rocky Mountain Skeptics
Free Inquiry Group (Northern KY and Cincy)
Teacher's Press

RichardDawkins.net



In Memoriam:
UK Professor and KASES co-founder 
Dr. Robert Baker, 1921-2005
KASES and the entire skeptical community are poorer for Dr. Baker's passing. 
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