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A packed house listens to John Rennie at NECSS 2009 (photo by Tim Farley) Saturday, April 17th! Registration for the Northeast Conference on Science & Skepticism (NECSS) 2010 is now open! We’ve kept ticket prices the same as last year: $65 general admission, and $40 for students and NYC Skeptics/NESS members. Space is ilmited [...] There is a question that I hear over and over from the skeptical community whenever there is an opportunity for Q&A at public skeptical events. The question is always some variation on: How do I convince [insert kith or kin’s name here] that [insert sacred cow here] is a bunch of baloney and they are [...] Howard Schneider, founding dean of the Stony Brook University School of Journalism, speaks at NECSS (photo by Larry Auerbach) My post on Monday addressed Dr. Paul Offit’s lecture on the anti-vaccination movement and how I felt that, even though the lecture was interesting in it’s own right, it was information already widely disseminated throughout the [...] NECSS Panel: Why is it so difficult to be a skeptic? (photo by Larry Auerbach) When this blog was launched on an unsuspecting world, I immediately posted an announcement heralding its arrival to my Facebook wall, as well as a general e-mail to all my friends and family members who haven’t yet swallowed the social [...] NECSS, The Northeast Conference on Science & Skepticism, was my first skeptical meeting. And since I was helping out behind the scenes, I may have a slightly biased view of the event. But I actually came away with a very different impression than that of my fellow blogger, The Quixotic Man (TQM). And since I [...] Dr. Paul Offit – Pro-Vaccine Luminary (photo by Mark Bellncula) In case you just stumbled upon this blog and have not checked out the website for the New York City Skeptics in the past several months, this past Saturday we held the first ever Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, the NECSS. I highly doubt [...] The Village Voice covers Paul Grosswald’s recent NYC Skeptics Public Lecture on “Cults & Coercion” |
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