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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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 Posted - 01/06/2007 : 13:56:20
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Just so you know, our very own (well almost very own since she does post on other boards) beskeptigal had a paper chosen for the paper presentation day at TAM5. That is no small thing. Her presentation is called Cracking the Language Code –
Uncovering Secret Messages You Didn't Know You Were Sending .
Congratulations are in order.
How cool is that? An SFN regular speaking at TAM!
Good going beskeptigal!!!!
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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 Posted - 01/06/2007 : 14:57:09 [Permalink]
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| Woohoo! Way to go Be! |
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Ricky
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HalfMooner
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Philippines
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Posted - 01/06/2007 : 21:22:37 [Permalink]
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Super-duper congratulations to B! Another salute to your irresistible force of scholarship.
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 01/06/2007 : 23:47:56 [Permalink]
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| Congratulations B'Gal - any chance of seeing at least an abstract? |
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King
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"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 01/07/2007 : 02:05:15 [Permalink]
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Hear, hear! Well done, B'gal!
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Paulos23
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 01/07/2007 : 10:56:04 [Permalink]
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| Congrats Beskeptigal! |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 01/09/2007 : 05:19:38 [Permalink]
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Your compliments are premature. Wait and see that I don't blow it first.
I met the guy who chaired the committee which picked the papers, Dr Ray Hall, UC Fresno Physics prof. And I met Harriet Hall, a retired FP MD who writes a column in Skeptical Inquirer and also will be giving a 20 minute talk. Amazing coincidence but they were in Seattle at the SSSE meeting Phil Plait was supposed to speak at. Dr Hall said there were about 30 papers they picked 8 out of. While that's a compliment, it also makes me more nervous about doing a good job.
Phil couldn't give his talk after all but I did introduce myself. And I assume I'll see him at TAM.
Meeting Ray and Harriet was very helpful. I got to get some specifics clear for the presentation. And Ray gave a nice talk on how the age of the Earth is dated and how 6 branches of science provide correlating evidence of the age. And Harriet and I kind of hit it off talking about other names for alternative medicine.
Also, she invites us to bring up any worthless new products on a forum on Quackwatch. I haven't checked it out yet. I can't believe any of the skeptics had fallen for that product called, Airborne, but they had. I knew that stuff was BS the first time I saw it at the checkout counter at Walgrens. I said something to the clerk about how they shouldn't promote fake products but it went over her head.
Thanks for your kind words. I'll fill you in on the subject a bit more tomorrow, it's late right now. It's on things I have posted about so nothing of great surprise, maybe just a little more polished.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2007 : 09:14:32 [Permalink]
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Hey beskeptigal. You know it was Harriet Hall who took on Marshall E. Deutsch at last years TAM over his claim that high cholesterol is not a risk factor for heart disease and other cardiovascular problems.
Nice to see that she is also speaker this year.
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 01/09/2007 : 17:44:07 [Permalink]
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I didn't know that but now I have a vague recollection of also seeing her at a microphone confronting the speaker. Wow, I'm going to have to see if that's a false memory or something. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen any video from TAM. Where was it I saw the person I'm thinking of? Hmmmm.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 01/09/2007 : 19:27:53 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by beskeptigal
I didn't know that but now I have a vague recollection of also seeing her at a microphone confronting the speaker. Wow, I'm going to have to see if that's a false memory or something. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen any video from TAM. Where was it I saw the person I'm thinking of? Hmmmm.
Well, I did write about the encounter in the TAM4 Kil Report. Maybe that's what you remember? |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 01/11/2007 : 21:06:35 [Permalink]
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That's it Kil. Rather than a memory of seeing her asking, it was your description of the event. I'll share your excellent Kil report with her next time I email her. She'll be pleased I'm sure.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 01/11/2007 : 22:02:57 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by beskeptigal
That's it Kil. Rather than a memory of seeing her asking, it was your description of the event. I'll share your excellent Kil report with her next time I email her. She'll be pleased I'm sure.
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