Jun 18 2009
TAM, Science-Based Medicine, DragonCon, and NECSS Conferences
I am totally into crunch time for TAM and the SBM conference. I will continue to blog regularly, but will be updating some of my older articles for some entries. Today I just want to post a reminder about these excellent skeptical opportunities, plus other upcoming events:
Science-Based Medicine
July 9th, Las Vegas, Nevada
This is a one day conference featuring lectures by many of the SBM regular contributors. The conference is designed to be appropriate for a general audience – no prior expertise is expected – and for medical professionals simultaneously.
More information can be found here, including links to register.
The Amazing Meeting 7 – TAM7
July 9-12 Las Vegas, Nevada
This is the de facto annual meeting of the skeptical community. It is a ton of fun and very educational. The keynote speaker this year is Bill Prady who produces the Big Bang Theory – a very funny sitcom (the only one I currently watch) based on science and geek humor.
And, of course, the highlight (ahem) will be the two live SGU podcast recordings. The Rogues and I will be there to meet our listeners, take live questions, and generally do what we do (whatever that is).
If you make the trip to Vegas you can take in TAM7 and SBM as a double-header. I promise you won’t be disappointed.
DragonCon 2009
September 4-7th Atlanta, Georgia
DragonCon is primarily a science fiction/fantasy/gaming convention, but it has a science, a podcasting, and now also a skeptical track. It has actually evolved into quite a science science and skepticism convention, thanks mostly to Derek and Swoopy, who have their own podcast, Skepticality. I will be attending, giving several lectures and participating on panels, and also recording a live SGU show.
NECSS
September 12th, NY, New York
The New England Skeptical Society it teaming up with the New York City Skeptics to create the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism. This will be like a mini-TAM for the Northeast. Details are still in the works, but James Randi will be there, as well and John Rennie from Scientific American, and many others. It is a full day of skeptical lectures and panels with (you guessed it) a live recording of the SGU (I sense a pattern here).
The only downside to all these great events is that they tend to clump in the Summer and early Fall. We need to figure out a way to spread them out around the year more. This is partly why I am in such a crunch. I have multiple lectures to prepare, conferences to organize, and other projects in the works. But fear not, I will not neglect my peronal blog.
8 Responses to “TAM, Science-Based Medicine, DragonCon, and NECSS Conferences”
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Steve, please, please, please, next year could you have nursing CEUs, my field is soooo woo infested, I would love to see anti-woo CEUs!
Currently, unless something radical changes, the Live SGU at Dragon*Con will be at 1pm on Saturday, September 5th at 1:00pm on the 2nd Floor of the Downtown Atlanta Hilton, in rooms 205 through 207.
Hope to see you there!
Derek C.
Though this is unrelated to the above, I have nowhere else to post this but here. It’s brief, but here it is.
An elderly patient of mine came into the office yesterday inquiring about a statement of OPRAH’s on her TV show regarding her thyroid disease. Either her statement or my patient’s memory for the statement was hogwash and potentially disruptive to standard medical care.
I couldn’t control myself. The first words out of my mouth was:
“Oprah is an idiot.”
It just REALLY felt good to say that.
Carry on.
halincoh- See here:
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=517
You missed out TAM London in October, Steve. You wouldn’t let the side down by missing it, would you?
Unfortunately, I will not be making TAM London this year. Perhaps next time.
Thank you tmac. Like I said … Oprah is an idiot.
Steve, I’m sure that next year’s TAM London will be even bigger than this year – as I’m sure you’re aware, it sold out in just a few hours – so I hope you can make it next year. If you need a roving skeptic reporter at this year’s TAM London with a minidisc recorder and microphone, just holler.