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Shadow of a Doubt - February 2014

The Monthly Calendar of the National Capital Area Skeptics
  • Feb 8 NCAS Lecture: Bad Medicine: How Alternative Medicine Has Infiltrated U.S. Medical Schools,  Steven Salzberg, Ph.D., Center for Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins University
  • Feb 12 Drinking Skeptically, now in MD and VA!
  • March NCAS Lecture: Evaluating Alternative Sources of Energy: Solar Energy from Space, Dr. Paul Jaffe of the US Naval Research Laboratory
  • NCAS Skeptical Crowdsourcing Project: Dowsing
  • NCAS Board Elections: Call for Candidates
  • Shadow Light
  • New Skeptic Line Number 
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Shadow of a Doubt - January 2014

The Monthly Calendar of the National Capital Area Skeptics
  • Jan 11 NCAS Lecture: Moses Schanfield, PhD,Where Did We All Come From?
    Tracing Human Migration Using Genetic Markers
  • Torn from today's headlines: UFO Activist Joins White House Staff as a Counselor to the President
  • Feb 8 NCAS Lecture: Professor Steven Salzberg,
    Bad Medicine: How Alternative Medicine has Infiltrated U.S. Medical Schools.
  • Jan 8 Drinking Skeptically - New Maryland Location
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Jan 8 - Drinking Skeptically in MD & NoVA
New Maryland Location

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Jan 11 - Professor Moses Schanfield - Where Did We All Come From? Tracing Human Migration using Genetic Markers

Of all species on the face of the earth, humans are the most disperse, in that they occupy the most diverse eco-systems present on all large land masses and most large islands.
In recent time, much work has been done using maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA, and non-recombinant Y (NRY) chromosome markers to map human migration and ancestry.  In addition, large numbers of other DNA based markers have been used for similar purposes.  However, anthropological geneticists have been looking at human migration and ancestry for as long as there have been genetic markers, starting with the ABO blood groups.
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Shadow of a Doubt - December 2013

The Monthly Calendar of the National Capital Area Skeptics

  • Dec 14 NCAS Lecture: Martin Gardner: Skeptic SupremeColm Mulcahy, PhD Department of Mathematics Spelman College
  • Torn From Today's Headlines: Sylvia Browne (1936-2013)
  • Jan 11 NCAS Lecture: Tracing Human Migration using Genetic Markers, Dr. Moses S. Schanfield, professor of forensic science at The George Washington University
  • Dec 11 Drinking Skeptically in MD & VA
  • Shadow Light
  • New Skeptic Line Number
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