CSICON Conference in Las Vegas tackles paranormal, pseudoscience issues

This weekend, I'm heading to Las Vegas to attend the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry conference "dedicated to science and skeptical inquiry," with a number of well-known speakers, including physicist Lawrence Krauss; Prof. Michael E. Mann, co-author of The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy, which I reviewed in Skeptical Inquirer magazine earlier this year; Maria Konnikova, author of The Confidence Game; psychologist Richard Wiseman, also author of several books and who gives excellent - and funny - talks: author Richard Dawkins; Harriet Hall, MD, and many others, CSI is an affiliate of the Center for Inquiry, which I worked for until recently for 12 years.

There's still time to go to the conference, which I will report about in a future blog. The Web site is www.csiconference.org

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