We are an informal group of scientific skeptics who promote critical thinking, reason, and empirical evidence, advocating for the scientific method to evaluate claims while opposing pseudoscience, superstition, and anecdotal evidence. This month, John Burdett will be doing a mini-presentation on skeptical and science items he has run across since our last meeting, and this month will also include discussions of "The Land of Chem" and the upcoming "Global Skeptics in the Pub" event that will take place in October.