Comments on: Science-Based Medicine Conference

By: Sastra

Sastra — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:41:50 +0000

I’m already signed up for TAM, and registered for the Science-Based Medicine conference. I hadn’t realized so many of you would be there!

Looking forward to it…

By: neilster

neilster — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:04:44 +0000

Conference attendee attire suggestion:

http://www.typetees.com/product/1727/Actually_medicine_is_the_best_medicine

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:29:23 +0000

Off topic, my apologies, but I wanted to post how the major newspaper in my home state of North Carolina printed an editorial lambasting those who refused to afford intelligent design equal time with evolution in the NC public school system. The editorial was pretty much what you’d expect, with all the usual fallacies, strawmen, and special pleading. What wa sremarkable and prompts me to post is the reaction – people went nuts, overwhelming the newspaper with follow-up letters and online comments ripping the editorial to shreds, with angry calls for keeping ‘religious nuts’ out of our school system. Given we are in the Bible Belt and that NC is strongly Southern Baptist, this really surprised me. Usually it’s dozens of ID supportive letters with one or two pro-evolution letters from an NC State prof or Research Triangle Park scientist. Not this time -total rout in favor of evolution.

For those of you fighting the good fight, take heart – evidence of solid gain is at hand. Raleigh NC has fallen to the Evolution Army – onward to burn Atlanta!

By: Paul Marden

Paul Marden — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:03:09 +0000

Will there be any online access to the materials of these presentations after the end of the conference?

By: Steven Novella

Steven Novella — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:11:30 +0000

caoimh – we would love to take the conference on the road. This first conference is kind of a test for us. If it is successful it will help future conferences.

Further, if you can find a sponsor to provide funding for an SBM conference we would happily go pretty-much anywhere. Ballpark for such a conference is $10-15 thousand to cover CME processing, location, and travel. Obviously location will alter this figure significantly.

By: Mendelation

Mendelation — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:10:18 +0000

Currently sending in my registration for the conference and TAM7 as well. Thanks to this conference, my school is picking up the tab for both. Yoohoo! Looking forward to my first TAM and hearing these excellent speakers.

By: caoimh

caoimh — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:42:13 +0000

That’s an awesome line up.

Fancy flying to Europe for a second date?
Or better yet, take it on the road for a world tour!

Having been a reader of SBM blog for a while now, I would strongly recommend attendance to my fellow sceptics.